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Governance Overview

Committees & Roles

Core Oversight Topics

Ensure Strong Ethics and Liability-Management Oversight in the Boardroom

Staying proactive is mandatory for boards navigating compliance and ethical challenges in today’s regulatory environment. Learn to protect your organization and its stakeholders while reducing liability risks. Leveraging NACD compliance, ethics, and liability resources can protect your organization and its stakeholders while reducing risk.

Equip your board with the knowledge and best practices to navigate these critical areas competently, ensuring sustained success and ethical leadership now and into the future.

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Congress Targets Pay as Challenges to Climate Rule and More Advance in Q2

This mid-quarter NACD policy brief summarizes current legislative, regulatory, and legal developments impacting boards.

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Key Resources

Our staffʼs suggestions for the best on this topic.

Director Essentials

Data Governance and Oversight

Explore how data governance and board oversight leads to ethical, effective, and sustainable value creation from data assets.
DIRECTOR ESSENTIALS

Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors

Gain an understanding how fiduciary duties can help directors and management understand the benchmarks and best practices in corporate governance.
DIRECTOR ESSENTIALS

A Director's Guide to Carbon Accounting

This report serves as a "how-to" for board directors who are engaging in carbon accounting for their company.
DIRECTOR ESSENTIALS

Director Independence

Independence of mind ranks as one of the most important characteristics a director can bring to board service. Learn more about the guidelines and standards to establish director independence.
SAMPLE DOCUMENTS

Documenting Governance

Get started with creating or updating essential board documents.
E-LEARNING

Directorship Essentials: Compliance and Ethics

This course provides directors with an overview of both the essential components of a compliance and ethics program and the board's role in that program's success.

Tools for Success

Practical tools, templates, and more to put into action at your next meeting.

Boardroom Tool

Conflicts of Interest Questionnaire Sample

Uncover directors’ potential conflicts of interest.
Boardroom Tool

Code of Ethics and Business Conduct Sample

Outline the ethical standards for directors and employees.
Boardroom Tool

Whistleblower Policy Sample

Outline the process to report and investigate potential wrongdoing.

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Editorʼs Picks

A selection of editorial content from Directorship^® magazine, including online exclusives.

Directorship Magazine

The Post-Election Boardroom: Six Scenarios for Planning Ahead

Six scenarios that boards should consider to prepare for potential regulatory changes after the November US election.
DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE

Projecting Ethics: How to Create a Corporate Culture of Integrity

Five practices for projecting a culture of ethics and integrity in an organization.
DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE

High Court Decisions May Prompt New Challenges to Longtime Governance Rules

Implications of the Chevron deference and other decisions in the boardroom.
DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE

Latest Delaware Decisions Reveal the Limits of the Business Judgment Rule

Lessons for directors from recent Delaware court cases.
DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE

The Board Member’s Guide to Investigations

Everything board members wanted to know about investigations but were too afraid to ask.
DIRECTORSHIP MAGAZINE

The Board's Role in Strategic and Responsible AI Leadership

Steps boards can take to lay the groundwork for successful oversight of AI.

Trusted Resources

Links to key resources, regulators, rulemakers, and governance-specific content.

Commentary

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Browse expert commentary on compliance and ethics.
Insights

Blogs from Sidley Austin

Browse a library of insights from the firm.
Courts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Keep up with decisions that could impact organizations incorporated in Delaware.