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Women on Boards

The much trumpeted Report on gender diversity in boardrooms, produced by a steering group led by Lord Davies of Abersoch, has now been published.

Gender diversity: a global perspective

A new report examines the legislative efforts countries around the world are making and compares the current percentage of women on boards around the world.

Human capital management

Chris Roebuck looks at the importance of the board’s role in effective human capital management and argues that it can be both a risk ignored and an opportunity neglected.

(More) change is in the air…

Peninah Thomson looks at the implications for UK corporate governance of the Davies Report on gender diversity on the boards of UK plc.

Evaluating boards

Louise Redmond looks at the factors which should be considered in making a good board evaluation.