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The Meaningful Business 100 is a community of entrepreneurs, business leaders, CEOs, and investors who are changing the nature of business as they promote the UN Global Goals. The recently announced Meaningful Business 100...
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With the privileges of limited liability for companies come certain obligations for their directors. These duties need to be addressed in addition to the responsibilities executive directors may have as managers leading business...
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In many jurisdictions around the world, “independent” directors, free from unjust ties from the organizations on whose boards they are serving on, have become a well established pillar of corporate governance systems and frameworks.
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In more than 20 years of teaching corporate governance, major surprises regularly surfaced when discussing the foundations of corporate capitalism with our students.
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The idea that only entrepreneurs imagine new businesses, while big companies focus on managing established ones at scale, is falling apart. All companies face increasingly unpredictable environments and the prospect of stagnation or disruption if they do not continuously innovate.
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Independent directors are increasingly being seen as critical to effective corporate governance as they act as the gateway to safeguard overall stakeholders' interest.
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Ask any governance professional for an indicator of board effectiveness, and most will point quickly to 'director independence'. Governments and regulators around the world tend to agree, as it is a concept often at the forefront of governance codes and handbooks.
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Is a board composed entirely of independent directors superior to a board with only insiders? Can we identify an optimal board structure that works for every company and in every circumstance? Over the past years, governance experts have attempted to answer these questions, often unsuccessfully.
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Independent Directors (IDs) continue to be seen by academics, regulators and investors as cornerstones of modern corporate governance. In the UK, US and most other developed countries codes of corporate governance mandate that a majority of board directors – including the chairman of the board are deemed independent.
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