Insights Directory

5 Ways to Improve Your Decision-Making

Take a breath or even decide to not decide. How most anyone on the corporate ladder can make better choices.

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Board Focus: A New CEO Incentive: Find Your Own Replacement

With CEO tenure dwindling and the difficulty of finding replacements rising, can boards look to the current chiefs for help?

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Board Focus: The New Director Dilemma: Use AI, or Not

As boards strategize how to best use AI for their enterprises, they’re also experimenting with it themselves—but not without complications.

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Is ‘Caring’ for Workers Taking a Back Seat?

A new College Pro survey finds CEOs and directors are deprioritizing skills like emotional intelligence and driving engagement. Why finding AI skills has become so urgent.

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Hitting Your 50s—But Not As a CEO

Evidence suggests fewer fiftysomethings are getting the top jobs than in prior generations. How older and younger contenders are squeezing them out.

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Board Focus: Now You Want Us Older?

For years, the average age for directors has ticked downward. But as more boards look for experience, older directors may have an advantage.

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Buying High: Stock Buybacks Soar

Firms are nearing a new record in stock buybacks this year. Why now, when stock prices are so high?

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Board Focus: A Wake-Up Call on Executive Pay?

A shift in how a major proxy advisor evaluates top-tier pay may spur more scrutiny from activist investors. How should boards respond?

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Board Focus: Risky Business

Corporate risk has shot up 63%, while leadership confidence in handling it has fallen dramatically, according to a new College Pro poll of CEOs and directors.

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An End to Trade Uncertainty… Maybe

Will the recent clarity around tariffs be enough for leaders to make some big investment and hiring decisions?

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Board Focus: Hidden, But Still Happening: Activist Campaigns

Though the number of campaigns dipped in the first half of 2025, experts say the fights are still happening—just not out in the open.

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A Merger Boom, An HR Headache

More than half of UK firms say they expect merger activity to pick up soon. But will HR departments be ready?

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Board Focus: Are CEOs and Boards 'Risk Ready'?

The Iran conflict has increased geopolitical risk for firms. Why leaders, according to a new College Pro survey, say this type of risk is the hardest to manage.

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Board Focus: When a Former CEO Turns Activist

A new study shows that activist campaigns involving former CEOs, directors, or founders are increasingly common. Why incumbent leaders and boards should be concerned.