Covid-19 Archive

When the Business Roundtable released its Statement on Corporate Purpose in August 2019, it was met with equal praise and skepticism. By the strictest definition of investor relations, stakeholder capitalism and corporate purpose should be important only if investors deem them to be material, but the continued evolution of ESG engagement shows that materiality is dynamic and def...

Companies across the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK had something of a respite from shareholder activism this year. The Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with uncertainty over the US elections, saw the number of public campaigns globally drop from 757 by the end of Q3 2019 to 652 by the end of Q3 this year. Numbers from Activist Insight show activism was down across almost all regions. In the US alone, those numbers were 412 campaigns by the end of Q3 last year ...

SPONSORED CONTENT         Corporate Secretary is pleased to announce the release of a special report looking at how the Covid-19 pandemic has forced boards of directors to find new ways of working together while they remain physically apart. Corporate Secretar...

More than 100 governance professionals gathered online last Thursday for the Corporate Secretary Forum – Canada to discuss how general counsel, corporate secretaries and boards have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic to tackle the challenges it raises, the lessons they have learned – and what that means for governance teams going into 2021. In the governance world, as elsewhere, the crisis has brought the wellbeing, treatment and importance of people to the fore...