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How Boards vary: reflecting on corporate governance in the…
Regular readers of this column may be familiar with my Boards of the Future report – a manifesto which argues that we should think differently about the non-executive Board. The report was published back in 2021, the...
The next digital frontier: equipping Boards with the skills…
Last year, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his first-ever tweet (“just setting up my twittr”) for $2.9m. Twelve months on, and this particular NFT has not proved the best investment for the Iranian-born...
Are Boards changing? An in-depth analysis of appointments, changes…
The MBS Group is delighted to present its second edition of the Boards of the Future series, Are Boards changing? An in-depth analysis of appointments, changes and exits to FTSE 350 Boards in 2021 Following on from...
Q&A: Incoming BFC chair Stephanie Phair on Farfetch, fashion…
I first met Stephanie just after she had returned to the UK following ten years ensconced in the New York fashion world. She had by that point risen rapidly, beginning at a PR startup before a role at Issey Miyake and...
The power and purpose of the Senior Independent Director
In the early 2000s, the UK saw two high-profile business failures. In 2001, the industrial giant Marconi broke records by generating an overall loss of £5bn, following a misguided strategy of acquisitions. Around the...
The year gone by: an A to Z of…
What a year it has been! After two years defined by the pandemic, we can’t have been the only ones hoping for a quiet 2022... But in twelve short months, we’ve had three UK prime ministers, a new monarch, serious...
Lessons for first-time non-executive directors
Regular readers of this column – and pretty much anyone who has met me in the last few years – will be familiar with my passion for what I call the Boards of the Future, and the story about how it came to be. It was...
AI: A serious ethical challenge for consumer businesses
In his Reith lectures on artificial intelligence, Professor Stuart Russell read an extract from Alan Turing’s 1950 essay on computer machinery. “Once the machine thinking method had started,” he read, “it would...
“The key to solving disability inequality is business”: in…
It was in January 2021 that I interviewed Sara Weller for my Boards of the Future manifesto. I have known Sara, who is former MD at Argos and is now on her fourth FTSE 100 Board role, for about 20 years, so when we...