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Corporate Failure

Lessons from collapse, crisis and recovery.

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Board Effectiveness

Building high-performing boards that challenge, support and add value.

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Corporate Governance

Practical governance beyond compliance.

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Risk Management

Identifying and managing strategic risks.

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Economics

Economic trends and their impact on business.

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Leadership

What effective leaders do differently.

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Every major corporate scandal follows a familiar script. A company fails; lives are damaged, fortunes are lost, and the hunt for culprits begins. The media
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On 26 May, the BP Board put out an extraordinary statement, saying that: ‘…it has today unanimously decided that Albert Manifold should no longer serve as
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Risk and strategy go hand-in hand,  but too often companies don’t think enough about risk. In this episode of Boardroom Confidential by Sherpany I discuss risk,
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Why do women earn less than men? The answers offered to this question have changed over time. The issues however have remained largely the same.
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32 years after the Cadbury Report defined modern corporate governance rules, corporate scandals continue to happen. Another version of the Corporate Governance Code came out
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Risk simply means that we are not sure about what will happen in the future. If you know everything about the future, you haven’t got
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At the very last minute the Insolvency Service, acting for the UK Government, has just abandoned disqualification proceedings against five former non-executive directors of Carillion,
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A new academic study (1) is challenging one of the central policies of gender diversity -boardroom quotas for women. They have been the central plank
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