PJ Neal

Thoughts from a more-than-occasional writer

Three Areas Where Boards Spend Their Time But Don’t See Results [The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance]

In today’s rapidly shifting business landscape, boards are simultaneously learning to navigate through unprecedented complexities while facing expectations to deliver sound advice for sustainable growth. Boards are under a range of intense pressures (Figure 1), including understanding cybersecurity and data privacy implications (66% of board directors identify this as a top three operational risk concern), steering through political and regulatory risk (44%), and overseeing organizational change (38%). As their behaviors, decisions, and actions impact key aspects of the organization, the need for boards to deliver meaningful results is more urgent than ever.

Read the full paper, published by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and co-authored with Rusty O’Kelley, Rich Fields, Laura Sanderson, Gretchen Anderson, and Joy Tan.