Boardroom 2018 Game-Changers: Everything from AI to corporate culture.

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March 19, 2018
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Boardroom 2018 Game-Changers: Everything from AI to corporate culture

By Dennis T. Whalen

Rising expectations and game-changing issues will continue to drive a sharper boardroom focus on positioning the company for the future. Here, we highlight three of the top issues boards should consider as they focus on their 2018 agendas.

Help the company keep its eye on the ball: long-term value creation.

One of the board’s most important roles is to empower the CEO and management team to think and act long- term — investing in talent, driving innovation and taking the long view on corporate performance. While there is a genuine need for short-term stewardship, don’t let it distract from focusing on long-term value creation.

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Best Practices

Say on Director Pay

By Doug Raymond

Boards of directors have long set their own compensation, creating an inevitable conflict of interest, but change is on the horizon thanks to a recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling.

Based on past court decisions, if shareholders voted to give directors the authority to use their discretion to make compensation awards to themselves, boards had significant protection against litigation challenging those decisions. This is known as the ratification defense.

Last December, however, the Delaware Supreme Court significantly narrowed this ratification defense in  In re Investors Bancorp, Inc . and shifted the focus away from stockholder ratification of "meaningful limits," i.e. general parameters that confine the directors' compensation awards.

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Environmental, Social & Governance

Diversity

How To Gain Gender Equity in the Boardroom? Fill Every Other Board Seat With a Woman

By Steve Odland

International Women’s Day highlights the unique contributions women have made and continue making to our society. However, economically speaking, women are both powerful and underrepresented.

In the United States, women now comprise six in 10 of today’s college graduates. They also account for nearly half the workforce and hold more than half of the country's personal wealth. Women also influence 70% to 80%of all purchasing decisions worldwide. Yet, despite this substantial impact, women hold only about one in five board seats at both Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.

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News

Warren Buffett Retiring From Kraft Heinz Board

Kraft Heinz announced Warren Buffett, the CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, will step down from the board at the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders, in April. Buffett decided to retire from the board as he decreases his travel commitments.

Berkshire Hathaway teamed up with Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital to buy Heinz in 2013, and then completed a merger with Kraft Foods in July 2015 to form Kraft Heinz. The combined Kraft Heinz, which Berkshire and 3G own a 51% stake in, includes well-known products Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia cream cheese, Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O and Heinz ketchup. 

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