Strong values and principles are key traits in effective business leaders – but they can come with tendencies to take fewer risks and be less proactive or innovative.
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Nearly 60% of Twitter users want him gone as CEO, but who should take over?
New research suggests being married influences a CEO’s appetite for opportunistic insider trading and the subsequent risk of prosecution.
Corporations have the responsibility to make workplaces more inclusive and welcoming for LGBTQ+ employees.
What CEOs say and how they say it are essential. Their words can set the tone at the top of the firm and have far-reaching repercussions.
How human resources managers assess their CEO’s true intentions on diversity are crucial to understanding whether an organization’s diversity agenda will be followed.
Research suggests that corporate leaders can be encouraged to lobby for climate action by personally experiencing the effects of climate change.
When directors are hand-picked by CEOs, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Director remuneration practices and policies are coming in for much greater scrutiny.
CEOs in private industry who have been accused of sexual harassment can cost their companies if they do as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did and fight the charges.
A new study involving extensive interviews with dozens of directors shows that they see their roles as more about supporting executives, not challenging them.
When the directors of a company are graduates of the same school as the executive, their ability to hold the executive accountable for his or her decisions becomes compromised.
While toxic CEOs may leave organizations, their style of leadership and the damage they leave behind have a long shelf life.
Research and surveys show that many Canadian employees want to continue to work from home, at least sometimes, following the pandemic. But what do CEOs think?
Bad behaviour and toxic culture at a company can be corrected if the organization’s board of directors states clearly the values they are looking for in a CEO.
COVID-19 has prompted many companies to lay off employees, but
most companies don’t have a policy governing layoffs. Here’s why that’s a mistake.
A scholar of how leaders communicate offers five key traits CEOs should use when communicating with their workers about coronavirus.
More women on corporate boards means more opportunities for women, and better performances by businesses.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos put environmental risks at the top of its agenda, while the world’s CEOs see overregulation as their biggest threat.
The publicity given to the Moyo saga has brought to the forefront some important lessons that should be noted by company directors.
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Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, Advertising and Media, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Professor Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Monash University
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