Strategic planning often focuses on projections based on the current business. But looking back to plan for the future may be a flawed strategy.
Women represent half of all investors in the US and their economic clout continues to rise, but they’ve been slow to use tools available to them to voice their concern about the issue of board composition, according to a new survey released by ION, the InterOrganization Network, a national consortium of women’s business organizations working to increase the representation of women in corporate leadership.
This publication features the full results of the annual
Corporate Board Member/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP "What Directors Think" study, which gathers directors' opinions on topics such as director risk, board evaluations, CEO succession, and more.
Senior corporate leaders, board members, board advisers, investors, and interested observers all need reliable information about the state of corporate governance in the U.S. and the impact of governance reform measures. This report presents the major findings of the study conducted by the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Heidrick & Struggles.
View the results of
Corporate Board Member's and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Annual What Directors Think Research Study.
This publication features the full results of the annual "What Directors Think" study conducted jointly by
Corporate Board Member and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP along with commentary on more than 1,300 directors' responses on opinions regarding risk and liability, compensation policies, governance procedures, board structure, director education, and much more.
View the results of
Corporate Board Member's and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Annual What Directors Think Research Study.
This publication features the full results of the annual "What Directors Think" study conducted jointly by
Corporate Board Member and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP along with commentary and analysis on more than 1,200 directors' responses on opinons regarding risk and liability, compensation policies, governence procedures, board structure, director education, and much more.
Corporate Board Member recently spoke with Heidrick and Struggles' Veronica Biggins, managing partner, Diversity Services Practice, and Ted Dysart, managing partner, Board of Directors Practice, Americas, concerning the issues facing directors as they broaden their definition of diversity in the boardroom.
The complete results of the
Corporate Board Member magazine/Deloitte Consulting LLP research study.
This study, conducted by KPMG and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, analyzes the factors that have recently been correlated with deal success. While some of these factors, such as how deals are financed, may have been examined before, others, such as how deal rationale may affect
success, are relatively unexamined.
An in-depth research study aimed at measuring movement at the CEO, COO, and CFO levels of the top companies in the country.
The Spencer Stuart Board Index is an annual study that examines the state of corporate governance among the S&P 500. The 2007 index looks at the way governance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act five years ago.
Chief Executives' Confidence at Seven-Year Low.
The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence, which had declined to 44 in the third quarter of 2007, fell to 39 in the final quarter of 2007 (a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses). The last time the Measure fell below 40 was in the final quarter of 2000 when it fell to 31.
