Governance

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Materiality Assessments: An Essential Part of Your ESG & Sustainability Strategy

A step-by-step approach to ESG materiality assessments ESG Materiality Assessments An Essential Part of Your ESG & Sustainability Strategy What's in this whitepaper from Speeki: Conducting a materiality assessment is crucial when building your ESG strategy. Learn more about the critical two-part process to developing a materiality assessment: Material areas to focus: The first stage of a materiality assessment is...

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GHG Verification an Overlooked Board Responsibility?

Organizational buy-in of sustainability goals must go all the way to the top, including the board of directors, if those goals have any hope of being met. As ESG columnist John Peiserich explores, there are some nuances board directors should be aware of regarding greenhouse gas emissions. Boards of directors are the lynchpin to effective sustainability programs. Effective sustainability programs...

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When in Doubt, Apply Warren Buffett’s Newspaper Test

When making decisions, transparency and potential consequences are powerful influencers. For directors and CEOs — as well as for their personal brands — this is a key question: What will decision makers in their organization do in critical situations when no one is watching? Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach shares advice on how company leaders can instill and reinforce ethical practices. When...

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How Can Boards Respond to M&A Risk in 2023?

Although deal activity during 2022 and early 2023 has slowed compared to a record-setting 2021, many companies are assessing their options for M&A to drive growth and increase resilience. At the same time, a range of evolving challenges including macroeconomic volatility, regulatory pressures and heightened scrutiny from shareholders and other stakeholders may increase uncertainty around deal success. BDO’s Amy Rojik...

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Just Add Water: Latest Cyber Threat Coming From Your Kitchen Tap?

The vast majority of Americans get their drinking water from public water systems, which are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attack thanks to reliance on automated, connected systems. ESG columnist John Peiserich explores a new EPA mandate designed to ensure these systems are secure. About nine in 10 people in the U.S. get their drinking water from a public water system,...

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How Long Can Anti-ESG, Pro-Business Forces Get Along?

ESG-driven initiatives in the corporate sector continue to expand. In response, controversial policy proposals are gaining traction in statehouses around the country, along with the newly formed Anti-ESG Alliance, a collection of 19 states pledged to protect their constituents from what the group calls a radical movement. And yet, for several states in the alliance, the drive to maintain or...

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Culture: Are You Curious Enough?

As a keystone provides integrity to an arch structure, culture infuses the shared values and attitudes that frame how an organization thinks and behaves. Culture gives each organization its particular character. Good or bad, culture is almost always at the root of all reputational and financial performance outcomes, as it is a potent source of strength or weakness for an...

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Inside the IPO Process: What It’s Really Like to Go Public

Ringing the opening bell on the Nasdaq or NYSE floor represents the culmination of a long and potentially risky IPO process. Securities lawyer Megan Penick of Michelman & Robinson offers an insider’s view of what it takes to get there. For public securities lawyers like me, nothing is quite as satisfying as celebrating a company’s listing during an opening or...

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BDO Spring 2023 Board Pulse Survey

What do corporate board directors see on the horizon? SPRING 2023 BOARD PULSE SURVEY Expanding Roles, Risks and Opportunities for Boards in Another Disruptive Year What's in this report from BDO: Another year of disruption and economic headwinds means formidable challenges for public company boards — but it has also opened new realms of opportunity for directors willing to adapt....

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Health Equity: Board Directors’ Most Important ESG Measure

ESG creates better financial performance, mitigates legal and brand risk and increases trust. But making ESG gains is about more than improving business metrics. Joe Wilkins, a founding member of the Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, talks about how health equity lies at the center of it all. With corporate boards more attuned than ever to environmental, social and governance...

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