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ESG Center 2019 Annual Governance Meeting - Materials
November 21, 2019
New York, NY
Background Reading Materials (Optional)
Session 1 - Economic Risks and Responses
Session 2 - Technological Risks and Responses
McKinsey & Company: Retraining and reskilling workers in the age of automation (2018)
Accenture: Breaking Through Disruption (2019)
Session 3 – Human Capital Related Reputational Risks and Responses
NACD: Board Oversight of Human Capital Strategy and Risks (2019)
The Conference Board: Higher Expectations: How Organizations Engage with Social Change Issues (2019)
Mercer: Navigating Human Capital Risk and Uncertainty Through Advanced Workforce Analytics (2017)
Session 4 - Public Policy Risks and Responses
Committee for Economic Development: Growing the American Workforce (2019)
Committee for Economic Development: Smart Regulation – Changing Speed Bumps into Guardrails (2019)
Albright Stone Group: India Reverses Course on Regional Trade Agreement (2019)
Albright Stone Group: Government Shakeup in Saudi Arabia (2019)
Albright Stone Group: Saudi Arabia Tries to Balance FDI and Localization (2019)
Albright Stone Group: The New European Commission (2019)
Albright Stone Group: Update on the Chinese Economy (2019)
Session 5 - Onboarding an Activist
Journal of Corporate Law Studies: The new hedge fund activism: activist directors and the market for corporate quasi-control (2018) or here.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz: Dealing with Activist Directors on the Board (2017)
Harvard Business School: Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences (2014)