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. 

Why has the movement fizzled, and what hurdles might it face over the next three months to three years?

Over the past three years, the ESG movement attracted a broad following across corporate America, with a proliferation of related management and investment strategies to advance environmental, social and governance priorities.  

But in the past three months, the ESG movement has appeared to stall, amid scrutiny revealing the insincerity of managerial proponents and a declining level of both returns and enthusiasm among funds and individuals alike.