Board series: The Board Chair of 2026: From strategy steward to enterprise risk integrator
As corporate complexity multiplies into 2026, the board chair will have to grapple with the upheaval on the corporate landscape. Historically centered on governance stewardship, strategic guidance, and CEO partnership, the chair is increasingly becoming the architect of enterprise risk governance and – in real-time – the chief navigator for continuous strategic revision. With regulatory […]
Board series: Markets moving faster than board skills – Facing the hard reality of AI, ESG, supply chain, and cyber
In the next decade, the most competitive companies will be governed not by the most prestigious resumes, but by boards engineered for complexity. U.S. boardrooms are re-skilling under pressure from four converging forces: (i) AI deployment and risk, (ii) supply chain and ESG regulation that reaches deep into suppliers, (iii) increasing geopolitical tensions, and (iv) […]
Board series: Corporate diplomacy in the age of economic warfare
Economic warfare isn’t hypothetical—it spans commodity blockades, cyber coercion, financial retaliation, and increasingly violent tensions in a multi-polar global landscape. Boards must proactively integrate such threat vectors into strategic oversight by stress-testing scenarios, building financial and cyber resilience, diversifying supply chains, and cultivating agile governance. Through AI-assisted readiness and improved intelligence, boards can better decode […]
2025 Energy outlook – preparing for a turbulent year
Central to the health of the domestic and global economy, business executives have a responsibility to understand the dynamic energy landscape both in the U.S. and globally. 2025 will bring tensions of oversupply, price increases, deregulation, and restructured incentives for renewables. This will lay on top of an already complex web of geopolitical conflict, tariffs, […]
The Audit Committee’s Evolution: Now on the Front Lines of ESG
Audit Committees have long been instrumental in enhancing disclosure practices. As standards on Corporate Sustainability and ESG come into sharper focus, the Audit Committee will play an increasingly important role in overseeing ESG disclosures and risk management. A look back at the emergence of the Audit Committee The emergence of the Audit Committee has catalyzed […]