Fiduciary Duty, Leadership

How Best To Measure Your Board’s Effectiveness: FAQs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/20/2025

Key Points - - Board self-assessment processes aimed at improving board performance, composition, culture and processes are common but vary widely in how they are conducted and who is assessed. - Most S&P 500 companies...more

On the 2025 audit committee agenda

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) on 1/9/2025

Drawing on insights from our interactions with audit committees and business leaders, the KPMG Board Leadership Center highlights nine issues for the audit committee to consider for the year ahead....more

Across the Board - CEO Comments on Public Policy: An Internal Governance Framework

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 1/27/2023

Public companies have lately been enticed to participate in public policy debates of the day. Headline examples include Coca-Coca and Delta two years ago on the Georgia voting rights bill and Walt Disney more recently on the...more

Coronavirus, the Economic Impact and the Board’s Role

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/23/2020

We are all in this together: In these rapidly changing times, more than ever, the Board needs to play its role with active engagement, thoughtfulness and resolve. Management is juggling the day-to-day business impact and...more

Corporate Law & Governance Update - April 2019

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/26/2019

DIRECTORS AS VENDORS - A new controversy at a large health system highlights the legal and reputational challenges that can arise when directors sell services to the organizations they serve as fiduciaries. According to...more

Being a Leader is more than just the title

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 10/1/2015

I think there are two types of leaders: those who lead and those who are enamored with being a leader. When you’re a leader and if you have people following you, you have the responsibility to lead. Being a leader isn’t...more