The MBS Group is delighted to present our latest white paper: The Power and Purpose of the Senior Independent Director. Over the past few months, it’s been a privilege to sit down with Senior Independent Directors...

Few chief executives spend more than a decade in any individual role: in the FTSE 100, the average tenure is six years, and CEOs in the S&P 500 rarely lead for longer than seven. Dame Cally Palmer, Chief Executive...

To most people, the chocolate and toilet paper categories have little in common. But to Ben Black, and to the team at Verlinvest, the areas are in fact closely linked – not by their product offering, but by the...

If you have visited MBS’s offices in Primrose Mews, you may well have arrived at Chalk Farm tube station, crossed over the railway bridge, and walked up Regents Park Road towards the open green space of Primrose Hill....

The past two years have proved transformational for women’s football in Europe. In 2022, the England women’s team – the Lionesses – won the European Championship in a final which broke television viewing...

In the 2000s, the global retail CEO community was dominated by alumni of ASDA and Walmart. In the 2010s, this nexus of power shifted to a generation of retail CEOs who trained at Tesco in its heyday. Now, in the past...

A few months ago, I went to see Elton John perform his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at the O2 Arena in London. It was, as you can expect, a memorable evening and one I will never forget. At one point, during one...

Two weeks ago, Kenny Annan-Jonathan was appointed as Creative Director at Crystal Palace, marking the first time a Premier League team has hired a creative lead. Brought in to “oversee apparel collections and fashion...

Nearly 25 years after someone first showed me Roger McGough’s powerful poem on leadership, I still hear his message clearly: I wanna be the leader I wanna be the leader Can I be the leader? Can I? I...