Moving to Mobile: How Nielsen and WFP Are Revolutionizing Hunger Relief
By Crystal Barnes, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Nielsen For humanitarian and nonprofit organizations around the world, knowing which families and communities lack access to enough...
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By Crystal Barnes, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Nielsen With competing messages constantly fighting for consumers’ attention, it can be tough for companies to break through the...
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Uncertainty a major corporate governance theme in 2017
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center As corporate governance goes, the uncertainty of 2017 will be its own separate risk for boards and management of companies,...
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Universal proxy roundtable highlights publication and primer available
While many Americans are focused on what a Trump administration will mean for such issues as healthcare, immigration, and gender diversity, those in the governance community are also concerned about...
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The Materiality Gap between Investors, the C-suite and Board
By Judy McLevey, former Associate Director, The Conference Board Governance Center Investors, the C-suite and boards have different views about what is, or should be, considered material information. A...
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How Good is Gender Diversity for Boards?
Is it good business for companies to add women to their boards? That is the question two professors—one from Pace University and another from USC—attempted to answer in The Conference Board’s latest...
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How Did we Get Here? The Committee on Corporate Political Spending has Answers
As President Trump—the first sitting executive of a company to become commander in chief— begins to roll out his agenda, many in political circles are asking the question, “how did we get here?” Prior...
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Which Dodd-Frank rules will stay? Which ones will go?
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center With a flurry of executive orders in his first two weeks in office, President Trump made one thing absolutely clear. The...
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Is your board prepared for a Trump Tweet attack? Check again
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center In the first month of the new Administration, companies are facing a risk they didn’t expect: being the subject of one of...
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Q&A with Katie Paine: How to Prepare for a Trump ‘Tweetstorm’
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board As I have researched the impact of social media attacks on public companies— namely the recent campaign by President Trump—I have discovered...
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Does your Board Lead or Spectate When it Comes to Strategic Transformation?
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz Transformation is one of the most challenging competencies a board must master. McKinsey & Co. estimates that 70 percent of transformations fail to achieve their...
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What Every Board Member and C-Suite Executive Should Know About Transforming...
By Terry F. Yosie A growing number of the world’s largest companies are turning to “sustainability” as a strategic lens to help anticipate and navigate the complexity of the international economy, meet...
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Why corporate governance failures continue
By Frederick D. Lipman, Esq In 2012, I wrote a Director Notes publication for The Conference Board entitled “From Enron to Lehman Brothers: Lessons for Boards from Recent Corporate Governance...
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What causes corporate directors to overreach their fiduciary responsibilities?
By Patrick R. Dailey, Ph.D. Present-day corporate directors are being equipped by governance educators, driven by regulators, and pressured by activists to be more actively engaged in pursuing their...
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The Conference Board/Millstein Center General Counsel Summit highlights...
The Conference Board Governance Center and the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School recently released the highlights of a Summit they co-sponsored on...
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Expect the impact of any Dodd-Frank Act rollback to be minimal
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Nearly four months into President Trump’s first term, the perception is that a full rollback of the Dodd-Frank Act rules related to corporate...
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In search of effective board assessment programs
By John Morrow Most major U.S. public companies have an annual assessment process. For many, the process is pretty basic and routine with a checklist that never changes. It has become a necessary evil...
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The latest corporate governance research from The Conference Board
Over the past three weeks, The Conference Board has released three corporate governance-related reports. They focus on such issues as CEO succession, board refreshment, gender diversity, and tenure as...
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Activist Insight: The Conference Board proxy advisor report ‘a little harsh’
“Just What Is the Corporate Director’s Job?” That is a question The Conference Board’s Governance Center is in the midst of posing to different groups of stakeholders over the next two years.
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The recent ransomware attacks are a call to action for boards
It has been a busy few months. The WannaCry ransomware attack made big news in May, raising a lot of antennas. Everybody waited for more shoes to drop from the leaked NSA hacking tools ransomware...
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