Peter Gleason: CEO of NACD on 2024 Board Practices and Oversight Surveys – Trends and Takeaways
Description
(0:00 ) Intro.
(1:23 ) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel.
(2:10 ) Start of interview. *Reference to prior episode with Peter (E83 from Jan 2023).
(3:00 ) NACD Surveys on Board Practices and Oversight: Private Company Results and Public Company Results.
(3:44 ) 1/ On Technology Oversight: "We are seeing boards go after technology, not necessarily expertise, but experience."
(11:16 ) 2/ On CEO Succession Planning. "Succession is always a challenge at companies, especially with founder CEOs."
(14:37 ) 3/ On Board Leadership Succession Planning. "Governance is more art than science, it depends on the board."
(20:26 ) 4/ On Board Reporting. Reference to paper on Netflix Governance by Larcker and Tayan (2018).
(23:43 ) NACD's BRC Report on Culture as the Foundation. *Reference to episode with Sonita Lontoh (June 2024).
(25:23 ) NACD's BRC Report on Technology Oversight. *Reference to episode with Nora Denzel (Oct 2022).
(32:12 ) On Cybersecurity concerns for boards and directors.
(33:56 ) On AI concerns for boards and directors.
(35:27 ) On trend of alternative corporate structures used by new AI companies including public benefit corporations.
(41:41 ) On the upcoming NACD Directors Summit Oct 6-9, 2024, in Washington, DC. *My reference to keynoting the 25th IBGC Summit in Brazil.
(46:35 ) On geopolitics and the increasing politicization of the boardroom.
Peter Gleason has been the CEO of NACD since 2017.
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