Monthly Archives: February 2017
CEO pay ratio: Stay prepared
Despite rumblings that Dodd-Frank proposals will fall by the wayside with the Trump administration, companies are advised to continue with CEO pay ratio implementation plans, explains Nora McCord & Ram Kumar - Associate Partners, Consulting, Radford
Reaching for the ‘reset’ button
Behavioural shortcomings and operational weaknesses are at the root most company failures. Both can be avoided if boards go back to basics, writes Peter Crow - Accredited company director (CMInstD) and board advisor
Getting to grips with New York’s cybersecurity compliance rules
With proposed regulations requiring organisations to have extensive cybersecurity protections in place, now is the time for getting prepared, writes Shawn E. Tuma - Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Partner, Scheef & Stone
Deploying reputational risk 2.0
The new strategic governance and value creation imperative: setting up a framework for turning risk into an opportunity for good, sustainable business, writes Dr Andrea Bonime-Blanc - Chief Executive Officer and Founder of GEC Risk Advisory
Rise of investor interest in ESG
Environmental and social factors are not just of interest to a minority. They are being widely used as indicators of whether a board’s up to its job, writes Michelle Edkins - Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Stewardship, BlackRock
Ethical Boardroom Interviews Red Eléctrica Corporación
Ethical Boardroom is joined by Mr José Folgado - Chairman of Red Eléctrica Corporación, Mr Juan Lasala - CEO of Red Eléctrica Corporación and...
FCPA enforcement: The individual criminal prosecution gap
The Yates Memo has shifted the focus of criminal investigations from corporations to individual wrongdoers. Only time will tell if it succeeds in holding more of them to account, explains Kristen Saville - Associate Director of Empirical Research for the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School
A roadmap for long-term value creation in the capital markets
Integrated reporting is taking companies in a new direction – away from the ‘tragedy of horizons’, writes Richard Hewitt - CEO of The International Integrated Reporting Council
Engaging with passive investors
Index fund holdings have found their voice... make sure you don't ignore it, writes Bruce H. Goldfarb - Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Okapi Partners
Information governance oversight: Questions for board members to ask
Good IG isn’t just about protecting an organisation from data breach. Information challenges are many and various – and someone needs to own responsibility for them, explains Jason R. Baron - Of Counsel at Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP and Co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative