Gaming Industry - A Look at Their Leadership
As the US starts re-opening the country, we at BoardEx took a look at the gaming industry, a sector with high exposure to the coronavirus outbreak (and likely its aftermath).
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Starboard Likely Played Role in Green Dot CEO, Director Picks
The activist fund didn’t launch a director contest, but timing and relationships suggest it had a major role in the debit card company's moves to install a new CEO and director.
KPMG Nomination Committees – Membership Diversity
The KPMG Board Leadership Centre and Ridgeway Partners featured BoardEx data in a study of membership diversity of nomination committees in the FTSE 100.
Portfolio Management for Relationship Assets
In his last article Applying Asset Concepts to Relationships, Dominick Sutton examined the concept of managing relationships as assets. This time he focuses specifically on the management of groups (or portfolios) of these assets. Again, the discussion is solely concerned with relationships that are systemically important for the firm. These are typically found at senior levels of the firm and can be critical for business success and even survival.
Applying Asset Concepts to Relationships
This article covers several key areas related to managing assets and briefly examines how they can be applied to relationships. Importantly, this review is focussing solely on the relationships that are systemically important to a firm and not the general cloud of relationships associated with every level of a firm.
Diversity Push at National HealthCare May Attract Activists
A majority of the nursing home and assisted living facility operator’s shares voted in favor of a proposal asking the company's all-male board to issue a report on what it would do to improve director diversity.
Royal Mail CEO Abruptly Quits
The surprise departure of Rico Back comes after Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky began building a stake in the 500-year-old company in early May.
Teleios Backs Maison du Monde Board Appointments
The Zug, Switzerland-based activist hedge fund is the company's largest shareholder with a 19.9% stake.
UK FTSE 350 Reaches 33% Females on Board
One of the long-term issues in corporate governance has been to address the question of diversity at the top level and particularly achieving gender-balanced boardrooms. As of May 2020, the FTSE 350 reached 33% women on board for the first time.