Sentences with phrase «on board diversity»

With the Global Ethics Summit winding down in New York, one of the event's final sessions focused on board diversity.

Pru has published a number of papers on board diversity.

Not exact matches

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in business.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

The Equilar Gender Diversity Index looks at the female representation on the boards of the biggest companies in the United States.

Canada's seventh - largest — and largest foreign - owned — bank, with more than $ 90 billion in assets and $ 2 billion in annual revenue, the company under her watch has become an exemplar of gender diversity, with equal numbers of men and women on the board and in senior management.

I should add, however, gender is only one dimension of diversity, and it's important boards focus on multiple dimensions of diversity.»

Committed to diversity and the advancement of women and girls, Ms. Hernandez - Kakol is a member of KPMG's Women's Advisory Board and has served on the leadership team for KPMG's Network of Women.

She is an Australia Day Ambassador for Western Australia, sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance Western Australia, and is the Founding Director of the Whande Group, a premier diversity consultancy and program development organisation specialising in global diversity.

«Investors» calls for greater gender diversity appear to be nudging nominating committees to find more women to serve on boards at U.S. firms.»

Regulators are imposing diversity requirements on boards.

Meanwhile, the ISS report also finds that diversity in global boardrooms has also been improving, particularly in the U.K., where female representation on the boards of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange FTSE 350 jumped almost 8 percentage points in six years to hit 18.5 % in 2014.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

A new study shows that one place where gender diversity seems to be flourishing is on the boards of large U.S. companies.

Bessant represents the company on a number of important topics, including diversity and inclusion, serving as an executive sponsor for the company's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride executive board and the LGBT Ally program and executive management team sponsor of the company's disability advocacy initiatives.

Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

The burger chain has a lack of diversity on its executive team, and its board doesn't seem to want to show up to the company's annual meeting.

In a study currently undergoing peer review, researchers found a significant link between board diversity and willingness to take on risk.

Ever since the Ontario Securities Commission implemented a rule last year that TSX - listed companies must address gender diversity on their boards or explain why they haven't, corporate Canada has been scrambling to hire female directors.

«The boards looked good on paper, but it's got to be diversity that's right for the company,» says Dominic Barton, global managing director of McKinsey & Co..

Heading into year three of the «comply or explain» regime for diversity on boards, the numbers look mediocre.

Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

The Canadian Board Diversity Council reports that women hold 21.6 % of seats on FP500 companies, up marginally from 19.5 % in 2015.

June 10, 2015 - OSC Chair Howard Wetston was quoted in the Financial Post about his remarks at the CCGG AGM with respect to gender diversity on boards.

Beyond keeping tabs on your board composition, issuers should draft a policy on diversity (regarding women but also cultural background, sexuality and disability), tenure and overboarding.

Familiar issues such as say - on - pay and board diversity will grow more complex this year, and guidelines on overboarding will further put the pressure on boards that have gone stale.

June 10, 2015 - OSC Chair Howard Wetston was quoted in The Globe and Mail about his remarks at the CCGG AGM with respect to gender diversity on boards.

In its comment document, the IGOPP covered the following topics: Shareholder advisory votes on compensation packages Diversity of board -LSB-...]

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She serves on the advisory committees of several corporations, including the Ernst & Young Winning Women program, the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, Walmart's Women Owned Business Advisory Council, Shell Diversity & Inclusion Collaboration Partners, MGM Resorts International Diversity Advisory Board, as well as the Coca - Cola Company's 5by20 initiative.

The model can be used to examine the gender diversity implications of four key governance decisions on the composition of corporate boards.

Plenary discussion on strengthening diversity initiatives in the workplace and on boards of directors.

While corporate boards may face differing circumstances, it is difficult to ignore the positive impact of the Rooney Rule on diversity.

She cited studies that show that both private and public companies benefit in profits and return on investment from having diversity on their boards of directors.

She is a sought - after speaker on the topics of leading large - scale cultural change, transformational leadership, brand building, cultivating high - performance teams, creating cultures of diversity and inclusion, harnessing talent, gender equity on boards, women in the c - suite, and women in high - growth entrepreneurship.

It's a welcome thing, to be sure, in a landscape that are largely dominated by men — the lack of gender and racial diversity among VCs and entrepreneurs and even on tech boards has become a hot - button issue in Silicon Valley.

-- Fenwick: Gender Diversity Survey 2013 Maier flipped the research on its head by posing the question: «Why do we have to say «having 20 % of women on boards shows a positive result for companies instead of «having 80 % of men on boards shows a negative result for companies?

«There's tons of data showing that diversity on boards, both public and private, and in management teams, leads to better financial returns,» Gouw told TIME in a recent interview.

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In addition, a recent study by the executive data firm Equilar tracks perceptible progress among boards of companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index in reaching gender diversity.

We learned later that those recommendations include bringing on an independent board member, giving Kalanick — who is still at the company at this point — less responsibility, and hiring a chief diversity officer.

CCBE examined the impact of the «Comply or Explain» requirement on the diversity of Canada's largest public issuers and found that improvements in the representation of women on boards continues to improve slowly, but Comply or Explain doesn't appear to be a sufficient motivator on its own.

LONDON AXA Investment Managers will vote in protest against companies which do not explain how they will boost the number of women on their boards, joining growing demands for workplace diversity.

However, the evidence we are aware of for the importance of board diversity on organizational performance specifically is less strong.71 GFI's board includes members of some relevant occupational backgrounds, but we are concerned that two of its five board members are leadership staff at the same external organization.

Topics include increased emphasis on director skills and diversity, quantum compensation concerns, and board oversight of ESG issues.

The individuals on the new Board must represent a diversity of professions, diversity of regions and diversity of interests — not individuals that disproportionately represent the energy interests of Alberta.

FKG also created a diversity index, ranking companies in the Fortune 500 based on the number of women in senior management, board roles, and «pipeline» positions where rising talent can be groomed for the next level.

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