Culpability for the recent financial crisis can be shared among many parties, including the banks’ boards and the government itself.

Boards must carefully evaluate their organizations’ risk functions to make sure they are not blindsided by emerging issues.

The treatment of a director on the occasion of their retirement reflects a company’s corporate culture.

What Directors Are Thinking

Compensation Advisory Partners’ review of CEO pay levels at 50 companies with fiscal years ending between August and October 2022 found median CEO total direct compensation to be up by 4% when compared with the same period in 2021.

A book review by Howard Brod Brownstein

When looking to incentivize behavior tied to ESG goals, time-honored principles still apply.

To achieve their desired goals, boards must analyze their decision-making processes and avoid deference to their CEOs.

Five mistakes compensation committees make in their disclosures and how to avoid them.

As proxy season 2023 unfolds, executive pay decisions are seeing a higher level of support than in 2022, but there have still been notable failures or declines in investor backing when voting on say-on-pay (SOP) plans. These could lead to consequences for director elections — especially for those on boards whose SOP plan receives less than 90% of shareholder votes. 

The protection of information must become part of a company’s culture from the top down.