The Handbook of Board Governance

Textbook:The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Board Members,2nd Edition
Author(s): Richard Leblanc


Description:
Chapter1introducescorporategovernanceanddescribeseachofthepartsand chapters in greater detail.
TheHandbook isorganizedintoeightparts,withindividualchapterscom-prisingeachpart.Thepartsaddressthemajorgroupingsofgovernanceleader-ship and responsibilities, including:

• The board’s most important responsibility: CEO succession (Part I).
• Theboard’ssecondmostimportantresponsibility:boardchairsuccession,
includingtheroleofanindependentchairandaleaddirector(PartII).
• Board and director composition, dynamics, and effectiveness (Part III).
• Thegovernanceoftheriskandopportunitiesofclimatechange(orcrisis) (Part IV A).
• The governance of the risk and opportunities of information technology, includingbusinessmodeldisruption,digitization,andemergingtechnolo-gies (Part IV B).
• Riskandfinancialgovernance,includingpopulism,politicalrisk,technology, and detecting possible fraud (Part IV C).
• Strategic governance, including agile governance, governing for the longer term, and detecting blindspots (Part IV D).
• Human capital and compensation governance, including recent developments in human capital governance, linking pay to performance, and the role of the compensation committee and human resource function (Part IV E).
• Legal and governance responsibilities, including regulatory and criminal law, the corporate secretary, and subsidiary governance (Part IV F).
• Shareholder accountability, activism, and engagement, including meetingwithinstitutionalinvestors,dualclasssharecompanies,andindividual investors (Part V).
• Not-for-profit and private company governance, including fundraising and cannabis governance (Parts VI and VII).
• Global comparative corporate governance, including Asia-Pacific, Australia, Caribbean, China, India, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom and the United States (Part VIII).