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
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Women in the C-Suite
The Next Frontier in Gender Diversity
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.
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The Other Diversity Dividend
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
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Think Sustainable and Ethical Returns, Think Female Leaders
Socially responsible and impact investing models have been around for decades (centuries, in fact).
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
Code puts companies and shareholders at heart of economic growth
UK regulator the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) yesterday released the much-awaited 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code, which attempts to put the relationship between
...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.