Boards

Boards rush to fill crypto knowledge gap despite crash: ‘Ignore at your peril’

Amid plunging prices, 95% of boards are actively seeking to educate themselves on digital assets

More than half of boards enlist consultants to help on crypto

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While the City talks up diversity, representation at the top has stalled

FTSE 100 falls behind on diversity with just eight female CEOs

There are still too few women in senior leadership positions across UK’s top companies, report finds

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According to Dambisa Moyo, board members should be asking tough questions such as 'what's the worst thing you've ever done to another human being?' in order to gauge the 'moral compass' of potential senior employees

Here’s a top question for boardroom execs: ‘What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?’

Senior executives should be asked about ethics in their private lives, and not just about their financial acumen

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Women now make up 36.2% of the boards of FTSE 100 companies, but there’s still work to be done

Here’s how to speed up the ‘glacial’ progress of women in senior executive roles

The problem is misleadingly characterised as a glass ceiling, but in reality is more of a slippery ladder, write MWM Consulting's Justine McIlroy and Michael Reyner

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BlackRock votes down record number of board directors in latest slam on ‘overboarding’

The $7.3tn asset manager voted against 728 directors for overboarding during the 2020 proxy voting season, up from 603 last year and marking a 69% increase from 2018

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Companies with more diverse boards outperform rivals through Covid-19 crisis

Those championing diversity still took a hit, but it was less severe than the impact on rivals

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