The Better Boards Podcast Series: Future-Proofing Your Board
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There has been massive instability at a global level in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Rethinking Talent in the Boardroom
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Organisations are facing major challenges. Many boardrooms have not yet...
Approaching Risk From the Boardroom
By Francisco Vieira and Pedro B. Agua
Boards of directors have been forced to pay increased attention to organisational risk and due governance. It is...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
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....
Create an Alumni of Retired Board Members
Don’t close the door to a source of wisdom and advice that can aid better decision making
Nine years is usually the maximum amount of...
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...
Mastering Board Governance in the Digital Age
In the drive for digitalisation, the emphasis tends to be on the operational aspects of the business. But shouldn't there be benefits for the...
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...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
Business-Centric GRC for SAP Customers – How to Get the Most out of Your...
By Dudley Cartwright, co-founder and CEO of Soterion
Investing in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is one of the most important business investments you can...
What Kind of Challenges for Businesses Face with Compliance in 2021?
Compliance is one of the most important parts of a business that a company can face, and yet so many are still making errors....
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...
Board Membership: Navigating the New Uncertainties
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...
How and When to Seek an Auditor?
Tax audits are a business’ and employer’s worst nightmare. While these investigations are not that common and are surely unusual, it’s best to prepare...
The Need To Rethink Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...
How the company secretary’s role is set to evolve to continue to add value...
The role of the company secretary in supporting board effectiveness can sometimes be overlooked. They provide a valuable service as a repository of corporate...
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...
4 Trends in Reputation that CEOs Need to Understand
By Sharon Fishburne
Businesses of all sizes are having to think more seriously about their reputations. A reputational crisis not only damages consumer confidence in a...
What is Accounting Fraud? A Guide for Safe Accounting & Compliance
Overview
The world of business is not foreign to accounting scandals and fraud. From entrepreneurs to employees, from managers to maids, it is not uncommon...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Companies Have Souls?
By Bill Novelli
The harshest criticism of corporate social responsibility is that companies are essentially immoral, or rather amoral. It’s said that money trumps everything,...
Effective Due Diligence – Often Harder Than You Think!
By Peter Lorange
To undertake due diligence (“DD”) when considering investing in a new project is paramount. However, in reality, to do this well can...
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...
COVID-19 Effect on Corporate Law
The new virus that affects the respiratory system was explored in the Far East in the winter of 2019. Since it started spreading quickly,...
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....
Compliance of Rules, Regulations, and Law is Vital
One of the most frustrating aspects of manufacturing is the time and money spent to develop a new product. It is out there in...
The Importance of Adopting a Loving Attitude Towards Stakeholders
By Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco
In the business environment, love is commonly seen as a feeling totally alien to the cultures of most organisations. Some...
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...
What Are We Doing Today to Prevent Our Company’s Next Ethical Disaster?
By David De Cremer
Imagine that you are walking past a restaurant where you clearly see that the condition of the electric wiring in the...
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...
Corporate Culture: What It Is and Why It Is Important
By Adrian Furnham
A functional corporate culture benefits both the company and its employees. In this article, the author provides an overview on the origin...
Four Toxic Symptoms of Success
By Risto Siilasmaa
All companies make mistakes but success – especially huge success – can blind companies to their mistakes until it’s too late to...
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...
Integrative Intelligence for a Trust-based Worldview for Business
By Sharda Nandram, Puneet Bindlish and Navin Keizer
Trust forms the bedrock of any business and can be seen as the fundamental currency of all...
Gender Parody: How to Get Even More White Men on Your Corporate...
By Stefanie Johnson
Unlike the United States, many European countries have seen declines in the percent of white men on corporate boards. The author presents...
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...
Becoming the Chairman
By Didier Cossin and Michael Watkins
The move from CEO to Chairman is a major role shift. Success requires a set of leadership qualities which...
Creating an Agile Board of Directors
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz
As the impulse of industry players to stay ahead of the competition skyrockets, how will you drive superior performance...
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?
By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald
There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...
How to Get Your Functions to Supercharge Your Strategy
By Jo Whitehead, Anita Hunt and Debbie Rogerson
Great strategies often go to waste because they cannot be properly executed. In this article, the authors...
When Democracy and Centralisation Meet in Leadership
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
Business leaders face a plethora of challenges and one of those is finding the leadership approach that would...
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...
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 Value of Gender-Based Leadership
By Melissa Greenwell
If a roomful of men can draw on their experiences and insights to help a business succeed, a roomful of men and...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
A Wake-Up-Call for the Boards on Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Jonas Vetter and Joachim von Heimburg
Today, innovation is not limited to products, but includes business models. Boards can play a...
Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...
The Dirty Dozen: How Unethical Behaviour Creeps Into Your Organisation
By Urs Müller and Ulf Schäfer
This article presents some of the most influential drivers of unethical behaviour in business and suggests counter-strategies. Reviewing the...
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...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 1: Reasons and Reality
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One of this article we will address a number of issues related to mergers. First, we will...
