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Boards Expect The Midterms To Change The Rules. But Few Are Committing Yet
Nine in 10 public company directors expect the post-midterm policy environment to affect their company’s 2027 strategy or performance. Roughly a quarter are taking no specific action. ‘Nothing will change overnight, if at all.’
Jensen Huang, Nvidia And What Every CEO Should Take Away
It doesn’t require a team from Wachtell to unpack this disaster. Everyone knows what went wrong here.
Record CEO Turnover Is The Board’s Report Card, And Most Boards Are Failing
Chief executive departures have hit all-time highs two years running, and boards are paying record premiums for experienced, plug-and-play CEOs. But AI disruption, elevated market expectations and a generation of long-serving chiefs could make today’s record turnover look like a prelude.
Public Vs. PE-Backed CEO Pay: The Real Divide Isn’t Salary
For public-company CEOs, the pay rewards can be enormous. For PE-backed leaders, the real payday may come at exit. What boards can learn from each to keep their CEOs engaged.
From The Deal Room: Blueprint And Governance For Carve-Out Success
Before signing, boards should press for a sign-to-close blueprint that both sides agree on and a governance model with the authority to act on it.
The Algorithm Alibi
When AI fails, employees blame the machine or go quiet. Too often, the board accepts the same excuse.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia And What Every CEO Should Take Away
It doesn’t require a team from Wachtell to unpack this disaster. Everyone knows what went wrong here.
Boards Emphasizing Experience And Skills Over First-Time Directors
Facing unprecedented challenges, companies are favoring directors with proven leadership experience. A few questions boards should be answering now.
Where’s the Value? The AI Question Directors Should Ask Before ROI
Value and ROI are fully interdependent. Too often, the sequence of inquiry is reversed—and that is a governance problem for management and board alike.
Your Board Doesn’t Need More Information. It Needs Better Context
The question boards should be asking: How can technology help us make better use of the knowledge we already have?
The Currency Of Trust
How board behavior shapes market confidence.
The Board As Competitive Weapon: A Decade Later, The Data Has Finally Caught Up
Ten years ago, I argued that high-performing boards should stop playing defense and become a source of competitive advantage. In 2026, with activist campaigns at all-time highs and executives openly questioning director performance, that argument is now a survival requirement.
The Turnaround Playbook Works. Why Wait For A Crisis?
The discipline that saves companies in distress can also drive stronger performance in healthy ones.
Directors May Move To Challenge Management More On Strategy
With companies facing increasing headwinds, it’s important for directors to reevaluate how they contribute to corporate strategy. Here’s what to consider.
Boards Have More Risk On The Agenda. The Next Step Is Acting On It
New research from Corporate Board Member and EY Center for Board Matters finds boards are devoting more time to risk and largely satisfied with the information they receive. The bigger challenge: turning those insights into strategic action.
Want To Lead With AI? Drop Your AI Strategy And Focus On These Four Planks Instead
If your ‘AI strategy’ lives separately from your value creating strategy you can have internal competition, not convergence.
Boards Are Spending More Time On Risk. The Strategy Link Is Less Clear
Sixty percent of directors say their boards have increased time on risk oversight over the past two years—but fewer than half report closer integration with strategy.
How To Set Strategy At The Speed Of Disruption
Against a backdrop of accelerating disruption across technology, geopolitics and talent markets, making ever-faster, high-stakes decisions with increasingly imperfect information is the norm. Here’s how six CEOs are adapting.
The Algorithm Alibi
When AI fails, employees blame the machine or go quiet. Too often, the board accepts the same excuse.
Leading Workforce Transformation In The Age Of AI: A Board Imperative
While management is responsible for deploying AI, boards remain responsible for overseeing whether the organization—and its people—are prepared to realize its full value.
Where’s the Value? The AI Question Directors Should Ask Before ROI
Value and ROI are fully interdependent. Too often, the sequence of inquiry is reversed—and that is a governance problem for management and board alike.
Poolside CEO On The AI Trap Public Companies Are Walking Into
Jason Warner, technology lifer and CEO of Poolside AI, makes a compelling—and contrarian— case against the current AI zeitgeist. ‘You just have to adapt. You have to start building it.’
What Your Board Minutes Don’t Show About AI
When courts assess a board’s oversight, they read the record. For AI, the record is thin, and bias and drift are the two risks it’s least likely to show.
The Agent Economy Is Coming
Is your organization designed for it?
Jensen Huang, Nvidia And What Every CEO Should Take Away
It doesn’t require a team from Wachtell to unpack this disaster. Everyone knows what went wrong here.
Record CEO Turnover Is The Board’s Report Card, And Most Boards Are Failing
Chief executive departures have hit all-time highs two years running, and boards are paying record premiums for experienced, plug-and-play CEOs. But AI disruption, elevated market expectations and a generation of long-serving chiefs could make today’s record turnover look like a prelude.
Paying For Succession
When it comes to succession planning, a new study by CBM and Farient Advisors finds compensation committees moving deeper into succession planning—but directors say pay should support the process, not become the strategy.
Pay, Pipeline And Succession Risk
A Corporate Board Member/Farient Advisors report on how compensation committees are moving closer to succession planning—and what boards need to know before pay becomes the emergency lever.
Leading From A Different Emotional Zip Code: What COOs Discover When They Become CEO
The number two role offers an extraordinary vantage point and genuine preparation for the top job. But the moment the promotion happens, the structure changes, the exposure expands and the decisions carry a different weight.
Record CEO Turnover Is Reshaping Which Search Firms Win
The biggest opportunity is emerging before the search begins.
Leading Workforce Transformation In The Age Of AI: A Board Imperative
While management is responsible for deploying AI, boards remain responsible for overseeing whether the organization—and its people—are prepared to realize its full value.
How Companies Like Goldman Sachs Can Stay Committed To Having a Diverse Board
Even as boards face rising pressure from anti-DEI activists, directors can safeguard board diversity by shifting from easily attacked written policies to resilient, performance-driven selection practices.
Royal Caribbean Chairman Richard Fain: Retaining Talent Is About Fit, Not Fitness
The difference between ‘useless’ and ‘fantastic’ isn’t always performance—sometimes it comes down to chemistry.
The Board’s DEI Dilemma
With informers and subpoenas, the Trump administration wants to root out preferences of any kind.
Workforce Planning At The Board Level: A Strategic Imperative, Not An Operational Detail
In today’s climate of volatility and reinvention, boards that view workforce planning as an HR sidebar are missing a vital lever for value creation.
When Good Numbers Hide Bad Culture: The Board’s Oversight Gap
How boards can understand, oversee and hold management accountable for building and sustaining a resilient corporate culture.
The Litigation Industrial Complex
Thanks to lawyers financed by hedge funds, even losing cases are now worth billions.
Share Tokenization: 6 Questions To Ask Your GC And IR Team Now
As the SEC opens a path for trading blockchain tokens tied to company stock in the U.S., it’s a good time to dig into the implications for your organization.
What Your Board Minutes Don’t Show About AI
When courts assess a board’s oversight, they read the record. For AI, the record is thin, and bias and drift are the two risks it’s least likely to show.
Under Congressional Scrutiny, Can Your Company Explain Its Decisions?
Heightened oversight tests whether a company can give a consistent account of its decisions across the boardroom, public disclosures, global operations and political cycles.
Directors May Face More Lawsuits Seeking Personal Liability
Corporate board members might want to consider the following to offset some of the risks associated with shareholder lawsuits that seek to hold directors personally liable for losses.
Will SpaceX Change The Fiduciary Role Of Corporate Directors?
Given the restrictive governance structure SpaceX is pursuing, boards might consider asking some of the following questions at their next meeting.
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