
How Boards Should Prepare For Long-Term High Interest Rates
A few things boards might consider as interest rates reach their peak—and stay there for longer than many expect.

A few things boards might consider as interest rates reach their peak—and stay there for longer than many expect.

Board members must feel that what’s best for investors is decided on the merits of actual ideas, not personal alliances to the CEO or other directors. Sometimes that’s more difficult than it might appear.

It may not be helping that DEI advocacy is being negatively characterized as “wokeness.”

While no company wants to be threatened to comply with a rule, boards should embrace clawbacks for the following three reasons.

Lack of oversight can sink a company and ruin careers. How prepared is your board to deal with evolving risks in your industry?

Consider talking to your largest shareholders privately instead of having issues of international business risk dealt with publicly.