Along with their peers in the C-suite, CFOs have treated cybersecurity and data privacy as top strategic priorities for several years. Increasingly, regulators are embracing a similar approach and CFOs need to take note and be ready Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and...

With the economic outlook constantly shifting as if it were a moving target, directors need to embrace change and set a tone of focus and confidence when looking to the future. It all starts with asking the right questions.Growth across the global economy is slowing. With the growth rate projected to shrink in 2022 and 2023 by half of what it was in 2021, business conditions have likewise declined. As the months go by, projections continue to worsen. Well-known factors...

2:30 - We have these really large shared challenges in the world — climate change and inequality being kind of the two mega challenges — and we can’t do it alone. Companies need to move in partnership and they need to be setting a higher ambition than just being a little less bad every year 4:15 - The issues that companies are expected to have a position on have expanded dramatically in the last few years. CEOs feel this pressure to say something about climate and inequality, but also about LGBTQ+...

Stakeholder interests have driven more than 450 companies in the S&P 500 to make voluntary disclosures regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters Whether the current form of the SEC’s rule or some alternative comes into effect, given such stakeholder interests, every public company and any private company looking to go public should consider their readiness to meet the reporting requirements of this rule as well as additional voluntary reporting regimes such as SASB, GRI and CDP...

Fierce competition among organizations for too few workers has created a job seeker’s market. Unemployment has remained at a historically low rate of 3.6% since the end of April, and employers were seeking to fill 11.5 million job openings as of the end of April after hiring 6.7 million during the month But for a temporary increase in unemployment due to the pandemic lockdowns, this is largely the labor environment that organizations have been operating in for the past five...

Protiviti and NC State University’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative conducted a survey focused on the top risks occupying the minds of global boards of directors and executives. The survey highlighted 36 risk issues that were further analyzed for impact. While each risk presents unique opportunities and challenges, one key theme – the future of work – touches and spans the most significant risks for board members and executives...