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Upping Your Company's Magnetism: The board's role in attracting the best executives, directors, and employeesIssue: 2018 Annual ReportWhether in the corner office or on the factory floor, people increasingly want jobs that are fulfilling, challenging and fun and, most importantly, purposeful.Companies that successfully promote all those things can win the war for talent, but the strategic push and sales pitch needs to also come fr...
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The Board’s Role in Attracting & Keeping Productive EmployeesIssue: 2018 Annual ReportTalent experts should be given a seat in the boardroom.Alan Guarino does not only chair the compensation and human capital committee for The Chefs’ Warehouse, a specialty food company. He’s also the talent expert in the boardroom.It’s all part of the proactive role Guarino believes boards shou...
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Not Getting the Most Dynamic Directors?Issue: 2018 Annual ReportStart selling your company’s values, especially if you want younger directors. When considering a board appointment, Tanuja Dehne looks for a board that promotes a strong culture and a company where she can have an impact on the business, one that focuses on more than just the bott...
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Attracting the Right CEOIssue: 2018 Annual ReportThe board’s role in wooing top talent to the corner office. Following a massive cyber attack at credit-monitoring behemoth Equifax late last year, the company’s long-time CEO retired, an interim chief was installed, and the search for his successor began.Given the public relations fall...
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Directors to Watch: Progress of diversity in the boardroom continues to drive debateIssue: 2018 Annual ReportBy Scott ChaseThe competition for talent may drive diversity in the workforce and the boardroom.That was the assertion by Deborah DeHaas, vice chairman and national managing partner for the Center for Board Effectiveness at Deloitte, who spoke in May at the Private Company Governance Summit (PCGS), ...
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Director Data 2nd Quarter 2018Issue: 2018 Second QuarterLink here for the report. Link to the report here.Link to the report. &n...
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My Board Journey: Jay HoagDirector, Electronic Arts, Netflix, Prodege (parent company of Swagbucks), TripAdvisor, VICE Media, and Zillow. Founding general partner at TCV, a leading provider of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. You’ve said, “Investing in technology and w...
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Transform Your Pay Program to Transform Your BusinessIssue: 2018 Second QuarterRedesigning pay bolsters growth.As the imperative for business transformation grows, so grows the need for redesigning executive pay.In one interesting case, a global industrial manufacturer faced both types of transformation in a single decade. At the start of the decade, it faced severe financial ...
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Prepping the Board For Proxy SeasonIssue: 2018 Second QuarterQuestions that should be on the agenda.With the 2018 proxy season in full swing, directors should be prepared to discuss and, as needed, respond to questions about board oversight on topics of importance to the company’s major investors.Several high-level themes related to board operations and boa...
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Lawsuits & Board LiabilityIssue: 2018 Second QuarterCompany policies to cover related costs can curb the hit to directors’ wallets.Directors — and particularly directors of public companies — are frequently sued. When misfortune strikes, the directors typically are the first targets of the ensuing investigations and lawsuits. In the past year, ...
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Uncle Sam’s Tax Gift BasketIssue: 2018 Second QuarterHow boards can capitalize on the bonanza, avoid the traps.By Maureen MilfordThe sweeping rewrite of the tax code in late 2017 is set to bestow a bonanza on U.S. corporations. Part of the gift basket from Uncle Sam is the biggest cut in the top corporate tax rate in U.S. history, slashed from 35...
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Three CIO Communication MistakesIssue: 2018 Second QuarterWhat boards should focus on when working with tech leaders.The dialogue between corporate chief information officers and the boards of directors can be both enlightening and frustrating — often at the same time. The two of us have seen many boardroom discussions from both sides of the table and wh...
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TOP OF MIND: What directors are thinkingROY DUNBAR, DIRECTOR: Humana Inc., Johnson Controls PLC, and SiteOne Landscape SupplyWe are in interesting times where M&A activity is favored by a rare combination of factors.These include companies having attractive currency both in cash and value of their stock, windfall earnings from the 201...
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SURVIVAL GUIDE: How Ann MacDougall prepares for board meetingsIssue: 2018 Second QuarterAnn MacDougall: Director, Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Atmos XRThe board of Opiant Pharmaceuticals has three to four in-person meetings a year, but there are also monthly calls and “out of schedule” meetings on particular topics given the opioid crisis, says Ann MacDougall, who chairs the c...
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The Boycott TweetIssue: 2018 Second QuarterA Twitter spat between a cable news provocateur and a school shooting victim over college rejections doesn’t seem like something that could embroil some of the nation’s biggest corporations, but that’s just what happened late last month.David Hogg — one of the Parkland Florida high school st...
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CEO Pay: Gravity-defyingIssue: 2018 Second QuarterEvery four to five years I comment in my Directors & Boards Publisher’s Letter on top management pay, which can be mystifying.My father, Dr. Milton L. Rock, who passed away this winter a month short of his 97th birthday, was instrumental in the professionalization of the field of human resourc...
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The Business Case for ClawbacksIssue: 2018 Second QuarterBy Kathryn Neel, Seymour Burchman, and Olivia VoorhisIn the world of corporate governance, a string of recent corporate scandals has highlighted the criticality of effective risk management and the potential financial and reputational harm that can result from inappropriate actions or ineffective ov...
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The CEO Pay SeesawIssue: 2018 Second QuarterBalancing CEO comp satisfaction, pay ratio disclosure fallout, and intensifying scrutiny over big and inequitable paychecks.By Eve TahminciogluFew boards would appreciate the recent national headline on Time.com: “This CEO Makes 900 Times More Than His Typical Employee.”The story focused on Mara...
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A Social-Risk Tipping Point?Issue: 2018 Second QuarterDirectors must weigh risks involved with joining social-outrage campaignsBy April HallIn a political climate where public opinion can turn on a dime, boards of directors need to consider a new business risk – “social risk.” Case in point, Delta Air Lines. After discontinuing its one-time disco...
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Have Guns Become Weapons of Value Destruction?Issue: 2018 Second QuarterLarge investment firms have leaders at gunmakers, retailers, etc., in their sights.By Jan Alexander“We share the nation’s grief over the in comprehensible and senseless loss of life at Parkland, Florida, and we share the desire to make our communities safer,” reads a letter that American Outdo...