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A People-Centric Approach To Resilience

Dec 5, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

As businesses navigate an era of continuous disruption, workforce resilience has emerged as a critical success—and sometimes survival—factor. From the pandemic-induced “Great Resignation” to the rise of hybrid work and generative AI, organizations are grappling with unprecedented changes in the way people work. Boards are now tasked with not only overseeing strategy and financial performance but also ensuring that companies are adapting to new workforce realities.
Risk In The AI Era

Oct 31, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

To get a sense of just how dramatically artificial intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity risk landscape, one has only to look at the source of the fraud most of us know best—emails that purport to be from a family member, friend or coworker but are really a ploy to defraud a company or access its systems.
Evolving Expectations On Compensation Disclosure

Oct 24, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

Following a proxy season with the lowest Say on Pay failure rate since 2017, compensation committees could be forgiven for feeling relatively sanguine about the 2025 voting season. Yet investor scrutiny of compensation practices has been no less intense. A closer look at the 2024 proxy season underscores the heightened expectations investors and proxy advisors continue to have for companies across industries and size ranges with respect to pay-program design and decision-making.
Expect the Unexpected: Oversight in Uncertain Times

Oct 17, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

In an environment of constant, rapid change, a strategic plan can only take a company so far, Merit Janow, chair of the board at Mastercard, told Summit attendees. “You develop the strategy of the company and then you test it as best you can in your baseline sort of scenario of what you think the world is likely to serve up,” said Janow. “But that’s not going to be a steady state, so change is an essential part of that assessment of the strategy.
AI: Balancing Opportunity And Risk

Sep 18, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

By now, most companies have come to terms with an uncomfortable truth: to wait too long to adopt emerging technology is to risk extinction. Sure, each and every advance promising to boost productivity, build resilience, deliver a better customer experience and so on is fraught with peril. (Think Big Data, machine learning, cloud computing.) Yet, the annals of death by disruption have proven without a doubt that the biggest existential risk by far is failing to move quickly enough.
Mastercard Chair Merit Janow Recognized With 2024 Director Of The Year Award

Sep 12, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

Every day, and more so than ever in an increasingly cashless society, millions of people trust Mastercard’s global network to make secure business transactions that power economies around the world. It’s an enormous responsibility—and one growing exponentially more difficult as transformative technologies like AI and quantum computing accelerate cyber risk.
TK Kerstetter Recognized With 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award

Sep 5, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

Failure, it’s often said, can be a great motivator. Such was the case for TK Kerstetter, who emerged from a bumpy tenure in board service early in his career determined to help other directors improve their game. The experience inspired him to write a book on governance in the banking industry—more on that later—which, in turn, led to cofounding this magazine in 1998 and, ultimately, pioneering the field of board education.
8 Talent Tactics That Work

Sep 3, 2024 | chiefexecutive.net | Jennifer Pellet |As editor-at-large

Companies can be forgiven for finding the twists and turns of navigating the talent market over the past few years a tad frustrating. Many found it disconcerting when work-from-home practices necessitated by the pandemic exacerbated a trend toward prioritizing work-life balance, but they adapted.
Molina Healthcare's Dale Wolf Recognized With 2024 Courage In The Boardroom Award

Aug 22, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

To outsiders, the shake-up in 2017 that led to the ousting of Mario and John Molina from the company their father founded seemed to unfold in a manner of days. But it was actually years in the making. The company was at a crucial junction. Founded 40 years prior, Long Beach, California–based Molina Healthcare was grappling with poor financial performance and lackluster growth.
Put Pay At The Core Of Your Strategy

Jul 25, 2024 | boardmember.com | As editor-at-large

In contemplating compensation plan design, boards would do well to remember the adage, “Be careful what you wish for.” Recruiting top talent, driving bottom-line results, boosting production, fostering transformational change, increasing diversity, hitting safety targets—incentive pay can be tied to a virtually endless list of objectives.