Future Fluency

Melissa Paschall, Melody Meyer, and Maryanne Hancock look inside the boardroom at how boards and directors are confronting the climate crisis.

• Melissa Paschall, Melody Meyer, and Maryanne Hancock discuss the shifts we are seeing in how the private sector is addressing climate change.

As the world continues to change, should boards and the directors that sit on them anticipate their roles changing as well? Mike Lubrano, Judy Samuelson, Ram Charan, and Stilpon Nestor discuss the ways in which changes wrought by technology, the pandemic, and the evolving business environment could affect boards and directors in the years to come.

Over the last two years multiple megatrends have impacted boardrooms simultaneously. Mike Lubrano, Judy Samuelson, Ram Charan, and Stilpon Nestor discuss how assessing our present environment can give us insight into the future of corporate governance.

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In a homogenous group setting, the sense of similarity among peers can make it feel as though the group can collaborate more easily. But when it comes to group performance, easy is not always best. An expert from the Neuroleadership Institute shares insights on diversity and group dynamics.

A research team out of Northeastern University looked at how companies in India complied with board-level gender diversity mandates. The insights the researchers gleaned may have implications for the US, as states implement or consider their own diversity mandates.

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In this special year-end episode, we hear from a few familiar experts who help us review 2020 and look ahead to the trends we expect will take center stage in 2021.

While some US adults look at the performance of the stock market as an indicator for how well the economy is doing, other stakeholders put little weight on the markets’ ups and downs. Kim Parker from the Pew Research Center shares survey findings about Americans’ opinions of the health of the economy.