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New initiative to promote board diversity

Risk appetite – a market study

Grant Thornton has published the first of an on-going series designed to monitor and report on progress and future challenges across the market.

Integrating governance 

Governance is still often seen as only a compliance exercise rather than a means for driving the sustainable performance of an organisation. A recent report recently examines how performance can be increased by integrating governance into the key drivers of sustainable organisational success.

Helping to fill the UK’s talent tank

Peninah Thomson explains how the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Executive Programme has been working well to promote women to play a strategic role in UK plc and why the new Pipeline Programme will add to that work.

‘New leadership’ and environment management

Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas argues that many organisations are failing to reap the benefits of providing better support to those who are best placed to deliver a range of environment management and other policy objectives.

Mentoring, or not?

Dr Ines Wichert reports back on research that shows that rather than following traditional mentoring programmes, women need access to high visibility roles to achieve real career progression.

Death of the equity cult 

Richard Smerdon has been looking at the changes in ownership of UK plc and asks where this leaves corporate governance?