Investors, regulators, employees and other stakeholders continue to push for progress in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, including the promotion of pay and opportunity equity without bias. Corporate boards can play…
Board and committee effectiveness, Boards and General Management
On June 13, 2023, the Lead Director Network (LDN) met in New York City to discuss the current mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) environment, as well as trends in investor activism and broader shareholder dynamics. Members were joined by Evercore’s…
Boards and General Management
The rapidity with which AI technologies like ChatGPT have emerged and spread has made board and executive oversight incredibly hard. According to research conducted by the Institute of Directors, over 86% of businesses already use some form of AI…
Board and committee effectiveness, Boards and General Management, Board risk oversight
In today’s environment of evolving expectations for businesses, market volatility, and macroeconomic challenges, effective engagement between public company boards and their largest shareholders is critical. BlackRock, as the world’s largest asset…
Board and committee effectiveness, Executive Compensation, Investor perspectives on public companies
As the precision medicine era advances, in silico reference files (ISRFs) are economical materials that laboratories and test developers can use to assess bioinformatics pipeline performance to support next-generation-sequencing test development,…
Precision medicine and diagnostics / Healthcare
In 2022, ongoing geopolitical conflict, persistent high inflation, rising interest rates, record-breaking energy prices, and labor shortages created a challenging business and risk environment. The economic outlook for 2023 is proving difficult to…
Boards and General Management, Board risk oversight
Audit committee agendas have never been more crowded. A volatile macroeconomic environment, a spate of new reporting requirements, and rapidly evolving technologies all mean that audit chairs need even better ways to get their committees’ work done…
Board and committee effectiveness
At the Bank Governance Leadership Network (BGLN) meeting on March 16 in London, participants met to discuss how banks and their boards can address the challenge of reaching the next generation of customers by developing new products, optimizing…
Innovation and technology, Regulation and supervision, Financial Strategy / Banking
On March 15, participants from the Insurance Governance Leadership Network met in London to discuss some of the unique challenges confronting senior industry leaders in meeting their talent needs. This ViewPoints summarizes those discussions and…
Conduct and culture, Financial services leadership and talent, Financial Strategy / Insurance and Asset Management
On March 2, 2023, board members and senior executives from leading financial institutions, investors, and other subject matter experts met in Coral Gables, Florida, to discuss evolving expectations around ESG, how their firms are responding, as well…
Regulation and supervision, Risk management and oversight, Financial Strategy / Banking, Regulation and supervision, Risk management and oversight, Financial Strategy / Insurance and Asset Management