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The board’s risk oversight responsibility has become more complex and subject to enhanced scrutiny from the courts in recent years. Institutional investors have identified risk oversight as a critical governance issue while pushing for more meaningful disclosures on the board’s risk oversight activities. Although the day-to-day risk management belongs with management, the board must engage […]

After a post-covid rebound, the M&A market slowed down in the second half of last year and remained quiet in early 2023. But it is expected to heat up again for the remainder of 2023. In this environment, every publicly traded corporation needs an M&A strategy. Is it a buyer or a seller? Is it […]

Human capital is a critical determinant of corporate value, and changes in workforce composition, worker preferences, and employee skill mix now create novel and profound human capital challenges across the economy. COVID taught that not all employees must show up at the office every working day to be productive. Instead, work-from-anywhere arrangements, properly managed, can […]

Many experienced directors and governance experts believe that hiring and firing the CEO is the board’s most important function. Despite this core belief, few companies seem to get the process of CEO succession planning and execution right. Moreover, little attention has been paid to the size and quality of the CEO market and how this […]