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.
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Following a multiyear global healthcare crisis that pushed medical professionals to their limits, heavy turnover and a talent pipeline shortage continue to plague healthcare organizations, large and small. At a recent roundtable co-sponsored by Chief Executive and Pearl Meyer, industry executives discussed the best way to develop that strategy.
Compared with their public company peers, private company CEOs enjoy far greater flexibility in executive compensation program design. At the same time, freedom from restrictive regulations and disclosure requirements comes with a flip side: lack of access to the power of publicly traded equity-based pay as a recruitment and retention tool.
Boards find themselves operating in an era of near-perpetual volatility and uncertainty. Waves of change have swept boardrooms in the past, but usually in the aftermath of major corporate crises and new regulatory requirements. This time, however, is different. As boards face new pressures and new tasks, many are taking a more proactive approach to change the way they get work done.
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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