COVID-19: Insights for boards

Midyear observations shaping board agendas, financial reporting developments, getting better at assessing talent, what workers want, and proxy season takeaways.

Priorities for board and audit committee agendas, African American representation on boards, and director views on boardroom diversity.

Against a backdrop of healthy growth, firms will grapple with lingering labor market issues and longer-term structural issues impacting the composition of the workforce.

Our CEO Outlook, the U.S. economic forecast, climate on the board agenda, board effectiveness, proxy season, diversity disclosure, and more.

A quarterly update for audit committees on accounting and financial reporting developments, including SEC matters and FASB activity.

Insights from lead directors on rethinking oversight to help raise the board’s game, strengthen the company’s resilience, and position the business and the board for the future.

The inflation question, cybersecurity oversight, the keys to workforce well-being, views on how to innovate boards, and more.

Considerations for refining boardroom cybersecurity and data governance discussions and oversight processes.

In an interview with the Board Leadership Center, Dambisa Moyo shares her views on how to innovate corporate boards.

Highlights from the BLC Directors Roundtable discussion on how companies and boards are rethinking workforce well-being.

Amid unprecedented disruption and uncertainty, navigating the future will require a sharp focus on near-term and longer-term strategy and risk.

COVID-19, social unrest, and other disruptions have put a premium on effective board oversight of CEO and leadership succession planning.

Board considerations for sustaining culture and engagement in a postpandemic environment.

This quarter, and in the months ahead, a number of developments impacting financial reporting will need to be front and center for audit committees.

Views on how organizations can adapt to the challenges and opportunities of a strong but uneven economic recovery.

Stephen Dabney and Michael A. Smith of KPMG identify emerging risks for internal auditors to have on their radars.

The U.S. economic outlook, how internal auditors are adjusting to changing risk profiles, findings from our director pulse survey, and more.

Cali Williams Yost, founder and CEO of Flex+Strategy Group, discusses how boards should consider the needs of diverse employees.

A look at emerging risks that should be front-and-center for internal auditors in the current environment.

KPMG and Eurasia Group explore the Biden administration’s agenda for 2021.

Our survey findings point to an increased focus on stakeholders, the urgency of climate risk, the strategic implications of cybersecurity and data governance, and a sharp spotlight on leadership.

Operating against a backdrop of tremendous uncertainty and an uneven economic recovery, prioritizing the audit committee agenda will be particularly challenging.

In an interview with the Board Leadership Center, Lex Suvanto of Edelman shares his views on earning stakeholder and shareholder trust.

Focus areas for boards as they broaden their talent oversight responsibilities.