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Section Summary A Conversation with Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA, discusses how mobile technology can be a powerful force for equality, financial mobility and sustainability.
Section Summary 2018 CEO Transitions Our annual review of CEO transitions among S&P 500 companies, including why CEOs left and information about their successors.
Section Summary A Conversation with Roger Lee: Business Growth through People Transformation Roger Lee, CEO of TAL Group, shares how he has helped the group to achieve sustainable fast growth and transformation: effective assessment and development of talent, and building a top executive team capable of leading the business into the future.
Section Summary Three Ways Leaders Get Assessments Wrong (and How to Get Them Right) The costs of getting important leadership decisions wrong are high; that’s why it’s critical to get assessment right.
Section Summary Getting Leadership Succession Right We studied 236 cases of CEO transitions in portfolio companies owned by private equity firms across Europe from January 2009 to March 2018.
Section Summary How to onboard the next generation of board talent In light of a rapidly changing business landscape, we look at new director trends and provide tips on how boards can onboard an increasingly young and diverse new generation of board members.
Section Summary CEO Succession Planning in India CEO succession has become a key priority for boards in India in recent years. We spoke to business leaders in the country about what makes a successful process.
Section Summary Increasing Gender Diversity in Insurance Leadership How can insurance companies make significant progress increasing gender diversity? What we've learned from analyzing the careers of women in the C-suite.
Section Summary Six Ways for Leaders and Organizations to Foster Inclusion and Diversity Insights on how leaders and organizations can embed inclusion and diversity in the workplace and make them part of the culture.
Section Summary Solving the Disappearing Women Problem Study after study finds greater numbers of women "disappearing" at each successive level of most organizations. Here's what some companies are doing about it.
Section Summary Helping Place 2,000 Women on Corporate Boards Around the World Ensuring the advancement of women in the boardroom for more than four decades.
Section Summary The Road to Strategic Board Succession Approaches to board succession planning fall along a spectrum from highly reactive to strategic. How can boards move up the continuum to be more strategic?
Section Summary Inching Forward on Gender Diversity The SID Directors’ Bulletin provided a brief summary of the key findings of the 2018 Singapore Spencer Stuart Board Index.
Section Summary 2018 U.S. Spencer Stuart Board Index Now in its 33rd year, the U.S. Spencer Stuart Board Index examines the latest data and trends in board composition, board governance practices and director compensation among S&P 500 companies.
Section Summary The Digital Director: How Boards Can Identify the Right Set of Skills Jason Baumgarten on what today’s digital environment means for board succession and recruitment.