Corporate governance

Extra ventilation often means using more energy - but it doesn't have to.

Instead of focusing on who’s “ahead,” focus on who’s actually best-suited to the top job.

The key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it.

Hitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success.

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Abuse. And it's not only a problem for Twitter.

Tim Cook is on track to be the next Steve Ballmer.

When political and social issues touch business and the workplace, employees and their leaders sometimes struggle to address those issues productively...

By pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies.

A rising number of companies are meeting the pandemic with humanity.

Bonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […]

Diagnosing and dealing with difficult directors.

A growing number of socially motivated entrepreneurs have been creating new kinds of organizations that combine a social mission with a business engine....

But CEOs increasingly do.

Why would a new Ceres report give low scores to Whole Foods, one of the nation’s largest purchasers of renewable energy, for the way it is responding to the challenge of climate change? Precisely for the word that Whole Foods uses to describe itself: “whole.” Many of the company’s actions on climate change are laudable, […]

New research confirms that ESG can create competitive advantage.

Collaboration between competitors is in fashion. General Motors and Toyota assemble automobiles, Siemens and Philips develop semiconductors, Canon supplies photocopiers to Kodak, France’s Thomson and Japan’s JVC manufacture videocassette recorders. But the spread of what we call “competitive collaboration”—joint ventures, outsourcing agreements, product licensings, cooperative research—has triggered unease about the long-term consequences. A strategic alliance […]

A much-quoted study from a few years back shows that companies with high numbers of female directors on their boards perform substantially better on three metrics—return on equity, return on sales, and return on invested capital—than companies with very few or no female directors. A group of researchers led by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin is […]

The country’s recent reforms don’t go nearly far enough.

In a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth wherever they can find it. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Cisco and HP are in a pitched battle for customers for their high-end teleconferencing systems. According to the report, it’s “one of the few technologies that […]