Board Oversight & Governance

There is no shortage of institutions – public or private – looking to implement reforms these days.  A transportation company struggles to rehabilitate its corporate culture after allegations targeted at its leadership team.  A financial institution spends massive amounts of time and money reforming its internal practices following a public scandal.  An automobile manufacturer rebuilds Read More

TK Kerstetter is CEO of Boardroom Resources LLC and host of “Inside America’s Boardrooms,” which is filmed at Nasdaq Marketsite. Most of us have annual events we look forward to. For some it might be homecoming at their alma mater or maybe an annual family trip to a location filled with memories. Among the many Read More

Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) are less concerned about personal liability as their role has gained a significant amount of independence, traction and prominence within the last year—that’s according to a recent report by global law firm, DLA Piper. The 2017 Compliance & Risk Report also found that CCOs feel that much more work is needed to Read More

Dr. Leo S. Mackay, Jr. is Senior Vice President of Internal Audit, Ethics, and Sustainability at Lockheed Martin. The core values of Lockheed Martin are:  do what’s right, respect others, and perform with excellence. Our commitment to integrity, built on these values, drives us to hold our 98,000 employees, our board of directors and our Read More

Last year the EU approved its General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, the latest regulation designed to protect citizens’ privacy amidst a seemingly endless flood of data breaches worldwide. This new regulation reinforces Europe’s reputation as today’s toughest watchdog on privacy and creates new risks (and potential penalties) for companies operating across the globe. The Read More

Earlier this year, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink wrote a letter to CEOs of large corporations, including all those on the S&P 500, decrying the “short-termism afflicting corporate behavior.” As the world’s largest investor, Mr. Fink was using his $4.6 trillion megaphone to demand that leaders eschew quarterly reports, and instead demonstrate the visionary proficiency Read More

This post was submitted by our partners at PwC Governance Insights Center.  Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has become mainstream for companies, and investors expect transparency around this information. But there is a disconnect between what corporates disclose and what investors want to know. How can that gap be bridged? PwC’s new ESG Pulse explores Read More