In the second half of 2021, the market for talent at almost all levels of the organization was red hot, with increased levels of turnover and challenges in attracting new staff. Companies across most industries have been faced with significant employee retention challenges, putting upward pressure o...

A new Middle Market Business Index special report from RSM US LLP states that the growing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues has reached an inflection point in the middle market, even in the face of the dramatic economic fluctuations of the last year and a half. Stakehol...

The longtime editor of Directors & Boards, who died earlier this year, helped others to shine. “Editor,” derived from the Latin edere (to produce or bring forth), may well be the most ambiguous word in the English language. It can signify anything from the eagle-eyed proofreader who fixes t...

A DEI program needs specific goals to be meaningful.  The drumbeat to add diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) metrics to executive incentive design is growing louder. Some companies are already far along on their efforts, and incentive design may naturally extend their strategic prioriti...

For my wife, Caro, and me, Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday, an unpretentious celebration of good feeling, good fellowship and good food, without ceremony, gifts or spectacle. For 35 years I have given a Thanksgiving address for family and friends who assemble at our home to celebrate America’s ...

This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of Enron, perhaps one of the most significant and far-reaching corporate scandals of the last few decades. No similar corporate downfall has had so much impact on the regulatory framework affecting corporate boards. It led to major changes in audi...

In a straw poll conducted just a few weeks ago, our racial and ethnic diversity Directors to Watch class of 2021 ranked the importance of 10 top issues facing public company boards as the world looks forward to a new year. No consideration was given to types of companies represented — so, for exampl...

I was named a Director to Watch in 2016, and in the five years since, corporate governance has been reshaped by the convergence of disruptions led by rapid technology and digital transformation, climate change, evolving customer sentiments, changing workforce needs, supply chain fragility, investor ...

 Ethnic and Racial Board Composition Shows Slow Growth Companies that don’t accelerate the process will suffer.   A counterintuitive finding from a new study published in October shows efforts to address racial and ethnic diversity continue to lag similar moves to create greater ...