The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI and Advanced Analytics – Delivering Value for Directors...
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With the fast-paced democratisation of AI and advanced analytics, problem-solving...
The Board’s Responsibility for Internal Control of Non-Financial Reporting
By Tim Bovy and Ian Hodges
It is only a matter of time before the SEC’s proposed rules for environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Building a Successful Employee Engagement Process
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The landscape of employee relations is changing, particularly in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Role of Boards in Family-Owned Enterprises
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Family-owned or family-led enterprises are the backbone of thriving economies...
Scandinavian secure-sharing software as a service: The ultimate solution for decision-makers
Interview with Møyfrid Øygard, Managing Director at Admincontrol
Admincontrol provides software solutions for secure collaboration and easy sharing of documents in business processes, such as...
Global Trends of Corporate Governance in 2022
Contrary to the hopes and expectations of governance observers and board members, stakeholders’ and investors’ interests in board effectiveness have increased over the years....
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
Governance 4.0: Moving Beyond Directors’ Networks to the Networked Board
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Like many other things in the modern world (such as our road transport systems, for example), company boards operate according to...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Creating a Digitally Savvy Board
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Being digitally conversant in an era of digital transformation is...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance Challenges in Africa
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High-profile corporate scandals globally have generated increased interest in corporate...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Board as a Team
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Role of the Next Generation on Boards of...
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Transferring a family-owned enterprise to the next generation raises complex...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
Covering Blind Spots. Does the Board have the Right Information for Effective Decision Making?
By Pedro B. Agua
Does your board have the right information for decision making? Better decision making has been a growing demand at any organizational...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Leading an Effective Board
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What does good look like? What does it mean to...
The NATO Alliance: Will It Have a Future?
By Joseph Mazur
Withdrawal and isolation could avoid foreign affairs and wars, but the costs will be far higher in the long run.
Since the end...
Big Business Models Are Back-to-Front Create Long-term Value By Putting Shareholders At the Back-end...
By Paul Strebel
Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Future-Proofing Your Board
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There has been massive instability at a global level in...
Financial Crime Keeps Us All Poor
By Jared Bibler
It was the first full week of October 2008, and stunningly, all three major Icelandic banks collapsed between Monday and Thursday. The...
Transformative Transitions: 8 Exit Archetypes Every Company Founder Must Know
By Merilee Kern
An expert examination of the prototypical exist phases—and crucial navigational strategies—founders must heed in today’s economic climate
Business transitions are important for several...
How to rank your business high for ethical auditing
Having an ethical culture in your organization is a foundation for effective internal control. All auditors are aware that internal controls are necessary for...
Compliance is Riskier Than Ever
By Gerry Zack, CEO, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Over the years, there has been a steady growth of compliance-related risks that bring untimely...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance – Are Boards Part of the Problem or...
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So much of the global discussion of corporate governance...
What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges
By Patrick R. Dailey
From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Managing Governance Risk
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Risk identification, ownership, and monitoring sit at the highest levels...
United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
The Simplexity Gap Why Boards are Always a Step Behind their Management Teams –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Richard Nesbitt
How impactful can simplexity gap be in corporate boards? In this article, the authors show how such gap undermines...
Corporate ESG Agendas: Are GCs Ready to Lead the Charge?
By Evangelos Apostolou, Major, Lindsey & Africa
In a year fashioned by the shared experience of the pandemic, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement has...
People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success
By Tammi L. Coles
For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...
The Importance of Adopting a Loving Attitude Towards Stakeholders
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In the business environment, love is commonly seen as a feeling totally alien to the cultures of most organisations. Some...
What is Accounting Fraud? A Guide for Safe Accounting & Compliance
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The world of business is not foreign to accounting scandals and fraud. From entrepreneurs to employees, from managers to maids, it is not uncommon...
The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite
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Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
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Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: U.S. and U.K. – Two Countries Separated by Common...
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The playwright George Bernard Shaw once noted that England and...
Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top
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Introduction
Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Gender Equality in the Workplace Starts at the Top
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Despite living in an era of rapid technological advancements, ground...
The Net-Zero Battle Requires an Army of Economic Sustainability Warriors
by Laurits Bach Sørensen
Although governments around the world have made commitments to achieving net zero, it is clear that more is needed if these...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
The Dirty Dozen: How Unethical Behaviour Creeps Into Your Organisation
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This article presents some of the most influential drivers of unethical behaviour in business and suggests counter-strategies. Reviewing the...
Strategic Change in Banking from Pre- to Post-Crisis: Evidence from Europe, North...
By Boris Liedtke and David Young
Introduction
Economic and financial crises often lead to profound changes in the way businesses, and especially financial institutions, are managed....
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – Rethinking business
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AI and generative AI are capturing the headlines. We know...
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Remember when there was an invisible line separating business from political and social movements? Corporate leaders largely kept quiet about their beliefs and values, trying...
Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...
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There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
Four Toxic Symptoms of Success
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All companies make mistakes but success – especially huge success – can blind companies to their mistakes until it’s too late to...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – What Questions do Directors Need to Ask?
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There is much discussion about AI, especially after the launch...
Creating an Agile Board of Directors
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As the impulse of industry players to stay ahead of the competition skyrockets, how will you drive superior performance...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards
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The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...
Conflict Contagion: A Virus to Watch and Treat Early
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Conflicts are daily realities of organisational teams, and most people are aware of...
What leadership policies can help uplift the middle class?
It is quite unfortunate that the liberal and capitalist values that have been propagated for long didn’t prove fruitful for the masses. The situation...
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