Values & Ethics

Should Private Companies and Family Businesses Care About ESG?

The pressure on companies to enact ESG (environmental, social and governance) plans has come from all sides: investors, stakeholders, employees and regulĂĄators. Public companies...

Directors to Watch 2021: Top Board Issues for Private Companies Mirror Major Public Company Concerns

More than 18 months into the COVID-19 era, with uncertainties looming around the future course of virus variants, priorities for private company boards have...

Boards Behaving Badly

When boards behave badly, it's usually difficult to detect. Like an accident on the side of the road, where you know you shouldn't look,...

ESG Is a Way of Life for Graybar

CEO Kathleen Mazzarella discusses the company and board’s focus  on long-term decision making and environmental, social and governance issues. To Kathy Mazzarella, chair, president, and...

Tax Software Firm Vertex Found The Right Governance Balance

The Westphal family is deeply involved in the governance of their tax software company but stays out of management. On a snow day in 2012, when...