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Weekly Roundup: April 18-24, 2025

Is Your Board Asking the Really Tough Questions about Risk? Posted by Mark Sexton and Paul Feldman, FTI Consulting, on Friday, April 18, 2025 Tags: Board of Directors, Cybersecurity, Management, Risks AI Readiness: The Four Steps CEOs Need to Take to Build AI-Powered Organizations Posted by Tristan Jervis, Russell Reynolds Associates, on Saturday, April 19, […]

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Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, April 25, 2025

Editor's Note:

This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of April 18-24, 2025

Is Your Board Asking the Really Tough Questions about Risk?

Posted by Mark Sexton and Paul Feldman, FTI Consulting, on Friday, April 18, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Cybersecurity, Management, Risks

AI Readiness: The Four Steps CEOs Need to Take to Build AI-Powered Organizations

Posted by Tristan Jervis, Russell Reynolds Associates, on Saturday, April 19, 2025

Tags: Artificial intelligence, Board of Directors, CEOs, Corporate governance

First Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment Award and $93 Million Order in Revenue Sharing Case

Posted by Daniel O’Connor, Amy Roy, and Devon Caton, Ropes & Gray LLP, on Sunday, April 20, 2025

Tags: Court of Appeals, Revenue Sharing, SEC, U.S. District Court

EU Parliament Votes To Delay Implementation of Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence Obligations

Posted by Simon Toms, Jonathan Benson, and Justin Lau, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on Monday, April 21, 2025

Tags: corporate sustainability, CS3D, CSRD, EU

Are CEOs Overpaid?

Posted by Martina Andreani (INSEAD), Atif Ellahie (The University of Utah), and Lakshmanan Shivakumar (London Business School), on Monday, April 21, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, CEO compensation, CEOs, Shareholders

2024 Sustainable Fund Trends: Index ETFs Are the Silver Lining

Posted by Subodh Mishra, ISS STOXX, on Monday, April 21, 2025

Tags: ESG, ETFs, Mutual funds, Sustainability

Riding Out the Storm – A Non-Exhaustive Punch List for Compensation in Volatile Times

Posted by Kate Napalkova, Krista Hanvey, and Sean Feller, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Compensation committees, Executives, Stock Price

Skin in the Game: Does Outside Directors’ Equity-based Compensation Induce or Mitigate Stock Price Crash Risk?

Posted by Weiqiang Tan (The Education University of Hong Kong), on Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, delaware, Delaware cases, investors

Considerations in Proxy Disclosure

Posted by Rachael Lee and Krunal Billimoria, Meridian Compensation Partners, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Corporate governance, Proxy disclosure, Shareholders

A Guide for Boards Evaluating Conflicted Transactions Under the Amended Delaware Law

Posted by Andrew Noreuil, Brian Massengill and Andrew Stanger, Mayer Brown LLP, on Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, corporate law, delaware, stockholders

FÁCIL: Opening New Paths for the Capital Market in Brazil

Posted by João Pedro Nascimento, Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), on Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Tags: Brazil, Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), Capital markets, FÁCIL

2025 Say on Pay Reports

Posted by Austin Vanbastelaer, Justin Beck, and Nathan Grantz, Semler Brossy LLC, on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Proxy voting, Say on pay

Presentation of Arguments in a Brief of Current and Retired Practitioners and Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Reversal of the Opinion of the Delaware Court of Chancery in In Re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litigation

Posted by Jonathan Macey (Yale Law School), on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Tags: Court of Chancery, delaware, Elon Musk, Shareholders, Tesla, Transactions

Strategic Governance of AI: A Roadmap for the Future

Posted by Maureen Bujno, Christine Davine, and Lara Abrash, Deloitte LLP, on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Tags: AI, Artificial intelligence, Board of Directors, Corporate governance