Tag: Board diversity
SEC Chair White discusses SEC coming attraction: board diversity disclosure
by Cydney Posner In a speech last week to the International Corporate Governance Network Annual Conference, SEC Chair Mary Jo White announced that the Corp Fin staff is preparing a proposal to amend the current rule requiring board diversity disclosure in proxy statements. The goal will be to require “more […]
Want to increase company performance? Increase the proportion of women in corporate leadership
by Cydney Posner So says a new study from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The results suggest that the presence of women in corporate leadership positions may improve firm performance and that “the magnitudes of the correlations are not small.”
NACD governance survey reports on top board priorities, time commitment and other matters
by Cydney Posner The National Association of Corporate Directors has made available the highlights of its 2015-2016 Public Company Governance Survey of over a thousand directors and executives.
Boards still “pale, stale and male” after all these years. Could this be why?
by Cydney Posner PwC’s annual survey of almost 800 public company directors reveals that only 39% of directors surveyed viewed board gender diversity as “very important.” Moreover, men and women seem to have distinctly different views about the value of having women on boards: 63% of female board members said that gender […]
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