Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), the leading provider of end-to-end governance and responsible investment solutions to the global financial community, today released updates to its 2019 benchmark proxy voting
By Colin Angle, Jay Hooley, Scott Landers and Jeff Ray1 November 19, 2018
Earlier this month, The Boston Club published its 2018 report on the gender composition of the boards of the largest public companies in Massachusetts. There was plenty of good news, including the fact
Paul Hastings presents the fifth edition of Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom, our comprehensive survey of the legislative, regulatory, and private sector developments impacting the representation of women on corporate boards globally.
The annual Census of women directors and executive officers plays a major role in The Boston Club’s Corporate Board Program, focusing attention on the identification and development of a vital pool of female expertise for corporate leadership positions.
Faced with a variety of forces — including an increasingly complex business environment and an unprecedented pace of change and disruption; a growing number and variety of business risks; and intensifying investor focus on the composition, diversity and quality of the boardroom — S&P 500 boards are gradually reshaping.
...we find that banks with more gender diversity on their board perform better once the composition of these boards reaches a critical level of gender diversity, corresponding to a board female share of around 13-17 percent.
