Cofounder of Corporate Board Member and creator of myriad programs for the director community, TK Kerstetter received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his role pioneering the field of board education.
Like many family businesses, Molina Healthcare hit a wall under second-generation leadership, spurring its board to remove founding family members serving as CEO and CFO. Board Chair Dale Wolf was recognized with the 2024 Courage in the Boardroom Award for his role in navigating that difficult and contentious decision—and putting a flagging company back on a path to impressive growth.
How smarter boardroom conversations about performance measures and goals can play a deeper role in clarifying what companies most want to achieve.
CSX and Salute Mission Critical, winners of the sixth annual Patriots in Business Award, share strategies on successful veteran and military initiatives.
Consummate corporate influencer Jeffrey Sonnenfeld has been mobilizing the private sector around critical issues for more than four decades. But it was the Yale professor’s efforts to lead the corporate pullout from Russia in the wake of their Ukraine invasion that led our selection committee to honor him with this year’s Greatest Impact on Corporate Boards award.
The attack on Ukraine started long before Russian forces set foot on Ukrainian soil, with nation-state actors reaching through cyberspace to stalk its infrastructure. Fortunately, the country had a powerful ally in Microsoft, whose efforts to defend the country led our selection committee to honor them with CBM’s 2023 Courage in the Boardroom award. Lead director Sandi Peterson shares a boardroom perspective on the tech company’s role in fending off the threat of cyber weapon deployment and on other challenging issues faced by today’s boards.
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