Crises come to even the best run organizations, and every leader — whether in management or on the board — needs to know how to react.    At the recent Vanguard Forum for General Counsels, we asked participants what they’d do in the fictional case of a beauty company facing a crisis. The company, they learned, had used a toxic chemical in one of it...

ESG isn’t new, but for years it seemed more like a laudable goal than a business imperative. That’s obviously changing, and the mounting pressure to demonstrate ESG bona fides is pushing leaders to broaden their definition of success.   Brent Wood, the CFO of EastGroup Properties, ran into this pressure a couple of years back. In the video below, h...

Most of us have felt frustration and anxiety this summer, as the early success of the vaccine rollout gave way to widespread hesitancy and the rise of new variants.   When Ken Banta asked Kristi Sorbello Frank and Viq Pervaaz about leading through this period, they agreed: it’s crucial for bosses to address those feelings head on, both in their peo...

Vaccination policies can be a legal and ethical minefield for business leaders. In the video below, Art Caplan, one of the country’s top bioethicists, speaks with Ken Banta about how to navigate the problem.   Art, the founding director of NYU Langone’s Division of Medical Ethics, talks about several big issues that CEOs, GCs, and other top leaders...

It looks like social distancing and remote work will be with us for a while, despite all the good news about vaccines. In this video, we hear from leaders about how to create positive change out of these circumstances. Jason Grenfell-Gardner, chairman of Pfenex, points out that leaders need to be much more explicit than they used to be about what s...