Activist Campaigns Question Board Governance And Competence
To avoid being a target, boards need to take a more active role in risk mitigation and must refresh before activists demand it.
To avoid being a target, boards need to take a more active role in risk mitigation and must refresh before activists demand it.
“Focus on the things you can control,” says Ellen Kullman, who, as lead director of United Technologies, helped guide the company during a tumultuous transformation.
The decision the board and management are making may be right—but you will feel far more confident if you first come up with all the ways it might be wrong.
Deciding what to do when a company is asked to announce its position on polarizing issues will require boards to develop a range of responses.
Think Covid-19 is disruptive? You ain’t seen nothing yet, a new book argues. But you will—and soon.
if the court finds that companies can face significant financial damages for making unfounded claims about human capital management decisions, it will heighten boards’ level of accountability.