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AI Is testing the limits of corporate governance
Roberto Tallarita, Harvard Business ReviewCan AI safety shed any light on old corporate governance problems? And can the law and economics of corporate governance help us frame the new problems of AI safety? There are five lessons — and one dire warning — on the corporate governance of AI made vivid by the corporate turmoil at OpenAI.
ai
governance
What happened at OpenAI? A guide to the corporate drama
Sam ForsdickDays after his ousting from the company, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI. Here’s how events transpired...
governance
The corporate governance failure at the heart of Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI
Duane Valz, Medium, 21 November 2023In this piece, the author examines both the flawed corporate structure of OpenAI, and the neglect of governance evolution during a year of immense change. Those things led to the chaos that unfolded around the firing of Sam Altman.
governance
Ditch performance reviews and do this instead
Liz Ryan, RaconteurAs companies reach the end of the year, they enter into a 'performance review season' - determining annual bonuses and salary adjustments. However, Raconteur's columnist Liz Ryan calls these processes "costly, drawn out and demotivating" suggesting that a constructive alternative is...
governance
workplace
The return of history: and the vanishing gap between business strategy and corporate public affairs
Peter Metcalfe, Guest Faculty Member of ACCPA’s Professional Development Institute, The Centre for Corporate Public AffairsThrough the 1990s, the world seemed a certain place, converging on peace and pragmatism. Democratic and non-democratic leaders alike were reconciling the market with social progress and liberal democracy – Clinton in the White House, Blair in Downing Street, Schroder in the Bundeskanzleramt, even Yeltsin in the...
governance
socio political environment
What matters most? Five priorities for CEOs in the next normal
Homayoun Hatami & Liz Hilton Segel, McKinsey & Company, 08 September 2021Over the course of the pandemic, businesses have largely – and often successfully – adapted to new ways of working. They have embraced digitisation and reorganised their supply chains. All of this has been necessary, but it will not be enough. To prepare for the post-COVID-19 era, leaders need to do more than fine-tune their day-to-day tasks –...
adaptive leadership
governance
Are employees a cause of bad management?
James Adonis, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 2021Most research on reasons why employees hate their job is typically directed towards a single culprit: their manager. But employee engagement expert James Adonis asks, could it be some employees are in fact the cause of their boss’ bad behaviour? That’s the premise of a fresh study, the findings of which are due to be published next month, run...
governance
In Conversation: The “Woke” Corporation & Corporate Communications
Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 25 August 2021On this episode of In Conversation, Executive Director of the Centre, Wayne Burns is joined by Clare Hesketh, Acting Manager of Media Relations at SA Water, and Darren Pearce, Chief Communications Officer at Tennis Australia. They discuss corporate communications and strategies around the hybrid model of work, the...
leadership communications
governance
socio political environment
Corporate directors don’t see stopping wayward CEOs as their job
Steven Boivie, The Conversation, 24 August 2021Research finds that directors generally view their jobs as primarily supporting managers, not monitoring them. This sentiment has been shown to be universal among directors, regardless of demographics like gender or time spent on a board. In practice, this means they rarely seek to vote down management decisions. Rather, directors seek to...
governance
“No CEO in history has created more shareholder value”: Tim Cook’s decade at Apple
The Intelligence Podcast, The Economist, 24 August 2021This episode of The Intelligence Podcast reviews Tim Cook’s decade as Apple CEO. Ten years into the job, Cook now leads the most valuable company on the planet, as well as one of the most influential. The podcast also explores what is needed for Cook to maintain Apple’s shine…
governance
measurement