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The long running ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case result has found that the case brought by Mrs Vardy against Mrs Rooney was futile as there was no significant reputation damage. What can the public [...]

According to Lord Palmerston only three people really understood the Schleswig Holstein question ‘One was dead, one was mad and himself, but he had forgotten it’. There is a real danger with the [...]

Boris Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative party on 7 July 2022, but he did not resign as Prime Minister of the government. The media have moved on to talk about the race for a [...]

Is your board in denial about a risk that is obvious yet nobody will acknowledge? Maybe it is hidden in plain sight because to admit it would challenge a key policy and require a major rethink? [...]

How do you measure reputation damage? This is a question I am often asked although the answer depends whether the reputation is for a person, organisation or a place. Each shares a common theme [...]

https://boardagenda.com/2022/04/22/battle-of-the-boards-risk-esg-and-two-tier-board-structures/ Published in Board Agenda 22 April 2022 So, your risk committee reports to the board and can [...]

Thursday 24 February 2022 will long be remembered as the day the Putin war started. Ironically only the previous week I spoke on the Henley Board Development Programme about the risk posed by a [...]

https://boardagenda.com/2022/01/25/how-risk-blindness-threatens-the-effectiveness-of-board-decisions/ Published in Board Agenda 25 Jan 2022 by Garry Honey A board’s highly sophisticated procedure [...]

ESG strategies have been popular with fund managers and institutional investors for a couple of years. However, small investors continue to seek clear definition of what an ESG compliant business [...]

Both the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have examined the causes of the collapse of Archegos Capital last March. Losses of $10million hit a number of [...]