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...
Conflict Contagion: A Virus to Watch and Treat Early
By Karsten Jonsen, Karen A. Jehn, Sonja Rispens and Lindred L. Greer
Conflicts are daily realities of organisational teams, and most people are aware of...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Will AI Make the Better Business Judgement?
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
In this episode of the Better Boards Podcast, Professor Katja...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Retention Factor – Why Boards Need to Prioritise...
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
When LGBT+ employees feel their employers aren't doing enough to...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Managing Governance Risk
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
Risk identification, ownership, and monitoring sit at the highest levels...
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...
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: Future-Proofing Your Board
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
There has been massive instability at a global level in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Increasing Productivity Through Inclusion
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
Diversity and inclusion are not evenly distributed throughout an...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance Challenges in Africa
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
High-profile corporate scandals globally have generated increased interest in corporate...
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...
Neurodiversity as a Catalyst for Change in the Modern-Day Workplace
By Charlotte Roberts
Gone are the days of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ workplace, and as businesses strive to innovate and adapt, neurodiversity works as a powerful catalyst...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Boardroom Awakening – Can Corporate Governance Survive the...
The podcast and the articles are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
The ESG narrative has become familiar but does not yet...
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...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
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,...
So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy
By Freek Vermeulen
No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...
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...
Chief AI Officer, Meet Chief Sustainability Officer: A Blueprint for Collaboration
By Michael Wade and Konstantinos Trantopoulos
A new frontier of business value lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and sustainability, where innovation meets impact...
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...
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...
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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: A Balancing Act – Where Should EMEIA Boards Focus...
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
Managing an ever-growing agenda, boards today face a plethora of...
Resources for Managers for Better Understanding Benefits of Using Adaptive GRC
In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the concept of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) has undergone a significant transformation, leading to the emergence...
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...
Board Responsibility under the FCPA
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
Leading with Ethics and Compliance
By Mark Meaney
As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business...
Boards Face Leadership Crisis in Changing Times
By Andrew Kakabadse
Boards can prove easy targets for their critics. Below, Andrew Kakabadse discusses how to make boards work, and argues that directors should...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI and Advanced Analytics – Delivering Value for Directors...
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
With the fast-paced democratisation of AI and advanced analytics, problem-solving...
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 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...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Boards – Geopolitical Challenges & Diversity
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
Geopolitical dynamics have evolved recently and will continue to grow...
The Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite
By Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf & Hongyi Li
Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Rethinking Talent in the Boardroom
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
Organisations are facing major challenges. Many boardrooms have not yet...
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....
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....
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Being an Effective Director in Family-owned Enterprises
The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series.
So much is written and said about what it means...
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...
Corporate Governance In Startups Balancing Innovation and Sustainability
By Javier Cabetas, Iván Fernández-Muñoz, Pedro Cesar Martinez-Moran, and Fernando Diez
In an increasingly complex and globalised business world, corporate governance can guide companies to...
Beyond the Regulatory Checkbox: Navigating Europe’s Shifting Sustainability Rules with Strategic Intent
By Jens Laue, Matthew Robinson, Monique de Ritter and Michela Coppola
As Europe recalibrates its sustainability regulations, it may seem natural for businesses to ease...
