The New York City Pension Funds’ (NYC Funds) “Boardroom Accountability Project 2.0” (BAP 2.0), an initiative that pushes for electing more diverse directors on the boards of public companies, has achieved engagement with over 85 of the 151 U.S. companies it has targeted, since the inception of the campaign. Over 35 of those companies are now disclosing
California is moving toward becoming the first state to require companies to have women on their boards—assuming the idea could survive a likely court challenge.
Sparked by debates around fair pay, sexual harassment and
What has changed is the amount of money that is being managed to these ends. CalPERS and CalSTRS, two pension funds for the State of California employees that
Despite recent advances in female board participation globally, gender diversity among top executives remains disappointingly low across all markets, with some improvement discerned in the past few years. Moreover, there does not appear a correlation between board gender diversity and gender diversity in the C-Suite at the market level.
When managers and scholars talk about diversity’s impact on organizations and teams, they’re usually referring to the effects on collective accuracy and objectivity, analytical thinking, and innovativeness. On “harder” measures of financial performance, researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship with diversity—particularly when studying large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be
... These companies clearly understand that board diversity is not a social issue, but is about improving their companies’ performance and enhancing their long-term sustainable value.
