Governance

Are you adapting your governance model to changing stakeholder expectations?

Governance models must be able to respond to evolving challenges such as new regulation, emerging technology strategies, risk management, and succession planning. The pace of change is accelerating just as stakeholder demands are becoming more diverse across new markets. Boards are paying more attention to enhancing communications, increasing oversight of crisis management planning, and focusing on fraud and IT risk.

Ultimately, getting the governance models right for the future depends on building the right leadership pipeline today. CEOs find recruiting and retaining high-potential middle managers is a particularly difficult challenge. On a more positive note, management teams are -- slowly but surely – becoming more diverse. Forty percent of US CEOs rely on local regional management teams and almost a quarter say these regional leaders are also part of their organization’s global management teams.

Featured governance insights

Podcast: Trust and Transparency Recent economic crises, combined with greater reliance on outside agencies, are driving the need for increased transparency. Steve Del Vecchio discusses the steps companies are taking in an effort to restore, sustain and enhance trust in their businesses — and how those efforts are giving companies a leg up on the competition.
10Minutes on trust and transparency When critical information that could have enabled wiser investment and consumption decisions only becomes transparent after a crisis erupts, gaps in trust develop, confidence in business wavers and proposals for transparency-promoting regulation quickly arise.
Video series: Current developments for directors In this video series PwC's Center for Board Governance provides a review of the critical governance issues directors and senior executives face, offering information, insights, and practical guidance to help directors meet the demands of their role and enrich boardroom discussions. This year's videos covers key developments in regulatory reform, proxy access, say on pay, and SEC enhanced oversight and enforcement. For further insights, the Current Developments for Directors report looks from the director's point of view at key issues they are facing. The report offers information, insights, and practical guidance so that directors can meet the demands of their role more knowledgeably and enrich boardroom discussions.
10 Minutes US financial reform The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (The Dodd-Frank Act) signed by President Obama ushers in a new financial regulatory architecture. Of chief concern to business leaders: How will The Act affect my company' ability to fund its needs, maintain liquidity, earn competitive rates on cash and investments, manage commodity and financial risks through derivatives, and provide financing to my customers?

Related governance insights

PwC Center for Board Governance: To the point: Current issues for boards of directors

From the SEC’s new rules on whistle blowing and supply chain disclosures, to the move from US GAAP to IFRS, is your company prepared for the changes? In this report, each issue is looked at in depth, offering you the insights and perspectives that will help you develop the strategy your company needs.

Annual Corporate Director Survey 2011 findings

More than 800 corporate directors shared their thinking on the current business and regulatory issues such as Dodd-Frank, advisory votes on executive compensation, and the financial crisis in the annual corporate directors survey conducted by PwC.

Governance, risk and compliance webcast series

You’re invited to join PwC's webcast series which focuses on ways to help your company improve governance, risk and compliance, and achieve the right balance between risk and return.

A Closer Look: Impact on Executive Compensation

Dodd-Frank will require major changes in executive compensation arrangements at public companies. Here are some of the key strategic, operational, and financial reporting issues they will be facing.

BoardroomDirect® e-newsletter

PwC delivers in-depth perspective on a major board issue, as well as information on other important governance topics, every quarter.

What Directors Think 2009: Survey highlights

What do directors serving on the boards of the top publicly traded companies think about the expected regulatory changes resulting from the economic crisis, the current risk environment, executive compensation, board effectiveness and other pressing issues? The 2009 What Directors Think survey offers you an insightful outline of the directors’ views on the factors shaping the current environment.

Corruption crackdown*

With an aggressive international push to fight corruption backed by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-corruption compliance is rising on the board room agenda. In fact, how well companies prepare for geopolitical risk and anticorruption compliance could make or break the viability of doing business in new markets.

Current developments for directors

The economic crisis has markedly changed the business and regulatory landscape. Which long-held assumptions about market forces are losing currency, and what will take the place of those assumptions? Here, directors step in with their hands-on experience and wisdom to help management negotiate the new terrain and ultimately keep their companies on course.

2010 Current developments for directors

How will global tax trends, financial reporting and regulatory developments, major ongoing legislative issues, and a special focus on government involvement in business impact companies? Here we offer insights on emerging developments and suggested actions directors can take to navigate these complex times.

2010 Current developments for directors

PwC's Current developments for directors examines key issues facing you as a director. Its purpose is to offer information, insights, and practical guidance so that you can meet the demands of your role more knowledgeably and enrich boardroom discussions.

US corporate governance: 2009 Current developments for directors

Directors are facing major issues: the economic crisis; governance and risk management, a changing regulatory landscape, governance scrutiny and taxes. The issues are not new, but their importance is now much more explicit. New regulations and standards are having a huge impact on them.. Here we offer insights and practical guidance so you can meet the demands of your role more knowledgeably and enrich boardroom discussions.