NACD in the News

• How to Accelerate Board Effectiveness Through Insight and Ongoing Education

  Today’s business environment is continuously resetting the bar for effective board oversight.

• Comment: Getting Your Board Ready For ESG Shareholder Activism

  Oil majors received stunning climate mandates from their shareholders during the 2021 proxy season, including a historic vote to replace three ExxonMobil board members with individuals from an alternative slate nominated by activist investor Engine No 1.

• Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk

  Accelerating digitalization puts new pressures on companies to overhaul their business models and, indeed, fundamentally reimagine how they conduct business.

• Why Aren’t Corporate Boards Diversifying More Quickly?

  A new report shows there hasn’t been much progress in diversifying corporate boardrooms.

• Corporate Boards Can’t Underestimate Role in Cybersecurity Oversight, FTC Warns

  Just before the pandemic, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) surveyed more than 500 public-company directors and found that 61% would be willing to compromise on cybersecurity to achieve business objectives.

• Anna Catalano Is in the Room Where It Happens—In Part Because Someone Spoke Up for Her When She Wasn’t

  Anna Catalano stumbled into the energy sector as a freshman in college after snagging a ride home to Kansas City with the son of a division manager at oil company Amoco Corp.

• Biden And The Boardroom: Turning Up The Temperature On Climate Change

  For many companies, decisions how to implement “return to work” strategies may be complex with both workforce culture and legal implications.

• The Board’s Role In Preventing—And Extinguishing—Employee Burnout

  For many companies, decisions how to implement “return to work” strategies may be complex with both workforce culture and legal implications.

• Rippling Cyberattacks Force Corporate Boards to Rethink Risk

  Corporate boards, in the wake of cyberattacks on software providers SolarWinds Corp. and Microsoft Corp., are seeking out expertise from consultants, lawyers and associations that offer cybersecurity training—an oversight boost that could cushion them legally in the event they’re sued or penalized by regulators after a breach.

• New WEF Principles for Cybersecurity Board Governance Address Expansion, Organizational Scope of Cyber Risk

  Cyber risk climbs the organizational priority ladder every year, but it accelerated in a unique way with the pandemic conditions of 2020.