Corporate Governance
A structured map for boards, shareholder rights, risk and controls, ethics, ESG disclosure and private-company governance. Start with the task you need.Start With The Task
Pick the job you are trying to do. Each route leads to a pillar page, topic hub, or focused category of guides.
Pillar Atlas
Every major Corporate Governance pillar as a card. Open a pillar to reach its guides, with live article counts from the current categories.
Board Effectiveness
Focused board effectiveness guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →Shareholder Rights and Stewardship
Focused shareholder rights and stewardship guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →Risk, Compliance and Internal Control
Focused risk, compliance and internal control guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →Ethics, Accountability and Executive Pay
Focused ethics, accountability and executive pay guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →Sustainability and Disclosure Governance
Focused sustainability and disclosure governance guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →Private Company and Startup Governance
Focused private company and startup governance guides, frameworks and worked examples for practitioners.
Open pillar →All Corporate Governance Pillars
A compact index for everything under Corporate Governance. Counts come from the current WordPress categories where available.
Latest Corporate Governance Articles
New guides published under Corporate Governance, refreshed automatically as articles go live.
SEC Proposes to Rescind Rule 14a-8: What It Means for Shareholder Proposals and Corporate Governance
On September 16, 2026 the SEC proposed rescinding Rule 14a-8, the 1942 rule governing shareholder proposals. Here’s what boards and general counsel need to know before the November 20, 2026 comment deadline.
SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rollback Doesn’t Let Boards Off the Hook in 2026
The SEC proposed rescinding its climate disclosure rule in 2026, but California, New York, and EU rules still apply. Here’s what boards must track in the new patchwork.
Shareholder Activism in 2026: What the Lululemon, Norwegian Cruise Line and Tripadvisor Campaigns Mean for Boards
M&A-driven demands, new board seats, and rising AI oversight pressure defined the 2026 proxy season. What corporate boards should learn from this year’s highest-profile activist campaigns.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell v. Anthropic: What the New AI Copyright Lawsuits Mean for Corporate IP Risk
A new wave of music-publisher lawsuits against Anthropic signals that AI vendors’ training-data sourcing is now the central legal battleground for corporate IP risk.
AI Governance Is the Biggest Blind Spot on Corporate Boards in 2026
66% of directors use AI for board work but only 22% have governance processes for it. Here is what the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure and the 2026 governance gap mean for your board.
What the EU AI Act’s August 2026 Enforcement Actually Requires From Boards
The EU AI Act became enforceable August 2, 2026, but the high-risk deadline moved to December 2027. Here is what boards actually need to do now.
EU AI Act Article 50: What the August 2026 Transparency Rules Mean for Businesses
EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules became enforceable on August 2, 2026. Learn what’s required, who enforces it, and whether it applies outside the EU.
Australia’s AML/CTF Tranche 2: What Accountants, Lawyers and Real Estate Agents Must Do Before the July 2026 Deadline
Australia’s AML/CTF Tranche 2 reform brings lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and conveyancers under AUSTRAC regulation. Enrolment deadline, obligations, penalties, and an implementation checklist explained.
SEC’s Regulation S-K “Materiality Overlay”: What Atkins’ July 2026 Remarks Mean for Boards
Chairman Atkins used his July 2026 Society for Corporate Governance remarks to back a materiality overlay for Regulation S-K disclosure. Here is what boards and GCs should prepare now.
Kurums Book Taste
The Corporate Governance Shelf
Kurums Book Taste is our business-book review desk: every title gets a Taste Note - what the book argues, and exactly how to use it at work - and curated Tasting Menus chain them into reading routes. This is the shelf we keep stocked for Corporate Governance teams.
Use it with an AI due diligence checklist for executives and boards.
Taste Note - Book TasteMeasure What MattersJohn DoerrUse it to install OKRs: public objectives and measurable key results, graded in the open.
Taste Note - Book TasteGood to GreatJim CollinsRun your executive team through the Level 5 lens at succession time: humility-plus-will versus charisma-plus-headlines.
Taste Note - Book TasteThe Smartest Guys in the RoomBethany McLean and Peter ElkindAdopt the plain-language rule: material transactions get a one-page explanation a non-specialist director must be able to repeat.
Taste Note - Book TasteThe OutsidersWilliam N. Thorndike Jr.Add a capital-allocation review to the annual board calendar: all five uses, computed returns, ranked.
Taste Note - Book TasteBarbarians at the GateBryan Burrough & John HelyarAudit your perquisite and related-party policies against the Johnson chapters - then ask what your shareholders would read in a leak.
Taste Note - Book TasteBuilt to LastJim Collins & Jerry I. PorrasWrite the core ideology - values plus purpose - and have the board ratify it as the fixed constraint on strategy.
Taste Note - Book TasteDear ChairmanJeff GrammRun an annual 'activist screen' on your own company - balance sheet efficiency, segment valuation, pay-for-performance - and present it to the board.
Taste Note - Book TasteHow the Mighty FallJim CollinsAdd a five-stages review to the board calendar annually: score the company against each stage's markers, in writing.
Taste Note - Book TasteBad BloodJohn CarreyrouCheck voting structure before joining any board or funding any company: if founders cannot be overruled, write down what your oversight is actually worth.
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10 free Corporate governance calculators and templates. Type your figures, get a one-page result you can copy or print. No sign-up.
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