
Survey Finds Polarization On The Board’s Role in ESG
With mounting pressure on companies to take action on environmental and social matters, boards remain divided on where responsibility lies.
Corporate Board Member conducts survey-based research throughout the year to gather firsthand accounts from public company board members on shifting boardroom strategy discussions and processes. We also offer a timely look into boardroom sentiment with our Director Confidence Index, a monthly flash poll of board members on the economy and top-of-mind issues.
Every year, Corporate Board Member surveys U.S. public company board members to take their pulse on the issues that are most prominent in the boardroom for the year to come and the strategies companies are implementing to overcome the biggest challenges ahead.Â
Few industries have been hit harder by the Great Resignation than healthcare—and little wonder. The added pressure only served to accelerate the rising turnover rates that many healthcare organizations have been struggling with for some time.
Market volatility, the war for talent, inflation pressures and the increasing focus on ESG issues have led compensation committees to reevaluate the effectiveness of their executive compensation programs in the current environment.
To better understand what directors across sectors are doing about ESG today and uncover best practices that may be emerging, 300 U.S. public company directors were surveyed about this high-profile subject.
With mounting pressure on companies to take action on environmental and social matters, boards remain divided on where responsibility lies.
The 2022 What Directors Think survey—fielded in the fall of 2021—revealed directors were increasingly concerned over cybersecurity and further disruptions in their supply/value chain. Then came a war.
From a global health pandemic, coping with the Great Resignation and growing stakeholder pressure for corporate accountability to a changing regulatory landscape and a drastic shift in customer behavior and tech-fueled innovation, there’s no shortage of items on today’s agendas.
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