Strategy and Risk

Enhance board effectiveness by guiding M&A decisions with informed, strategic oversight questions.

Explore practical boardroom strategies for overseeing sustainability decisions in uncertain regulatory environments.

When anyone with a smartphone can expose a broken promise in seconds, directors should identify early warning signs before they become a permanent reputational crisis.

To help management teams handle economic uncertainty, directors should monitor ongoing changes to tariff policies. 

As disinformation campaigns escalate, boards must adopt influence inoculation strategies to build psychological resilience and protect reputation and trust.

As governance norms fray and risk migrates from public institutions to private enterprise, boards may become the new guardians of accountability.

From a shifting world order to a looming technological revolution, the job of a director has become increasingly complex.

As the AI debate continues, NACD members say boards must be ready for both a potential shakeout and long-term transformation.