Category: Management

9 July 2012 Press Release: “The Institute of Chartered Secretaries (ICSA) has today published an updated version of its guidance note on the induction of directors. The revised guidance is designed to advise organisations on the topics and documents they should consider when designing an induction programme for newly appointed directors.

New York (JULY 17, 2012) – Acknowledging the value that comes with a diverse board, a majority (75%) of corporate boards in the US are taking a broad range of actions to promote diversity in the boardroom from instituting diversity policies to asking executive recruiters to recommend diverse candidates.

[ABSTRACT] Although a substantial body of academic research is devoted to developing and testing risk proxies that detect accounting irregularities, the academic literature has paid little attention to commercially developed risk measures. This is surprising given the general consensus that academic risk measures have relatively poor construct validity. We compare the commercially developed Accounting and […]

The following entry appeared as part of Governance Metrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, […]

”The following are our observations on the second year of mandatory “say on pay” votes for U.S. public companies under Dodd-Frank thus far this proxy season.

The following entry appeared as part of Governance Metrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and accounting risk factors.

[Lord Davies] recommends that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should be aiming for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015. He has recommended in his report for government that FTSE 350 companies should be setting their own, challenging targets and expects that many will achieve a much higher figure than this minimum.

Gender diversity in the boardroom is an issue of increasing interest for shareholders of U.S. corporations. This report examines the prevalence of women directors in the Fortune 1000 and an additional 1,000 midcap companies. It also offers recommendations gleaned from interviews with more than 50 directors, CEOs, chief human resource officers, and governance experts for boards looking to recruit women directors and for women interested in serving on boards.

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CEO and President of The Conference Board, Jon Spector, interviews Lord Mervyn Davies of Abersoch, CBE, about his research into gender diversity in the boardroom – an initiative of the UK government. (recorded September, 2011)

Mercer has produced an excellent report about diversity practices in the Asia-Pacific region. The research report provides valuable insights into main topics of concern for companies in the region and the programs and practices being implemented in different markets. It also discusses the drivers of the diversity and inclusion agenda and the challenges facing organizations […]