More chief financial officers resigned from large U.S. companies in 2020 than in previous years, as the pandemic put pressure on corporate balance sheets and the executives who manage them. Thirty-seven companies in the S&P 500, including General Motors Co. and HP Inc., last year said that their CFOs would quit, up 27.6% from 2019. The figure for 2020 is higher…
Agenda partnered with SEC filings analyzer MyLogIQ to obtain data points on the directors appointed to Russell 3000 board seats in the first three months of 2019. The following spreadsheets include additional data points beyond those presented in graphics and text for the article, “Boards on Cusp of Major Generational Shift” and can provide some…
Recruitment of under-40 directors is up, but is age diversity a sure bet for tackling the next generation of boardroom issues? Peter Pan notwithstanding, a fixation on youth is generally considered unhealthy in most contexts. In boardrooms, a dearth of age diversity is increasingly viewed as a sign of being out of step with the…