Governance

Shareholder activists have upended the market for corporate control in recent years, taking positions in public companies and pushing for restructuring and cost-cutting to drive up share prices. They’ve had less success however, in driving long-term growth at the companies they target. Corporate managers can preempt — or beat — the activists by deploying a more powerful tool for growth:...

What are the main priorities that GRC stakeholders need to have in 2016? Scott Wisniewski, Managing Director for the Risk Technology Solutions at Protiviti, will address the top considerations needed in order to create a successful convergence strategy.

This abridged version of Directors and IT, a user-friendly guide for effective information technology (IT) oversight, highlights a six-step process that directors can follow to better fulfill their IT oversight responsibility.

We’ve come a long way, baby. Companies utilizing complete digital archiving solutions are able to reap benefits including highly efficient file searching, email tracking, social media oversight, and analysis of communications. Not only does comprehensive archiving smooth the e-discovery process, it also enables organizations to detect and prevent compliance violations and better manage various risks.

This second piece by Ron Meyer on the rise of the non-bank lender looks at growth in these non-traditional sources of funding and what some are doing to prepare for potentially impending regulation.

Compliance with regulatory requirements can get complicated when companies in highly regulated industries take to social media. Subject matter expert Joanna Belbey offers five steps to ensure that when your company posts, they do so purposefully, knowledgeably and well within the bounds of the law.

The task of placing restrictions on genetically modified organisms falls to three primary agencies in the U.S.: the EPA, the FDA and the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. In this article, Peter McGrath brings into question the process of regulating GMOs and exactly which entities should be involved.

With commercial banks taking a more conservative approach to lending since the financial crisis, the lending market has opened up to nontraditional lenders, and more and more businesses are using these non-bank lenders as alternative sources for credit funding. The good news is businesses have more loan options. The bad news is these entities don’t face the same level of...

There's a reason executive leaders get paid the big bucks. The decisions they make often have repercussions that are felt company-wide. Not an easy job, holding the fate of so many workers in your hands. In addition to experience, senior leaders must have an acute business savvy, along with a couple of other key traits in order to make the...

Step aside, lawyers. It's time for the CCO to be allowed greater influence as advisor to the Board of Directors. Michael Volkov suggests that there's a shift underway in corporate boardrooms: with new corporate scandals breaking all the time, the need is greater than ever to protect an organization's reputation and embed ethics within the culture. You're up, CCOs.

Boards of Directors are looking farther out when developing their strategic plans, with a majority reporting that their strategy time horizon is at least five years. More and more Boards are factoring macro trends into their planning, and it’s becoming clear that building a strong talent pipeline, proactively reducing fraud risk and strengthening the tone at the top are key...

Board member views on strategy and risk oversight have shifted to a longer-term orientation with emphasis on evaluating macro-trends as part of their strategic review, according to PwC’s recent Annual Corporate Directors Survey. However, Board members are being pressured to balance longer-term strategic planning and investment with the need to meet short-term investor expectations. Additional key findings from the recent...