Cleary's "Selected Issues for Boards of Directors in 2025" provides just the right amount of information, along with realistic, practical recommendations, on a number of discrete hot topics (e.g., AI oversight, executive security costs and disclosure, antitrust environment) that can help bring the board and C-suite up to speed on current events, as well as focus the boardroom dialogue. Each topic is presented on a concise, but sufficiently comprehensive, stand-alone basis, so that it can be digested on its own—either via the memo or online here—to suit the organization’s current areas of interest.
According to EY’s annual board agenda report, a majority of directors ranked these topics—economic conditions, capital strategy, innovation and evolving technologies, cybersecurity and data privacy, regulatory developments, and talent agenda—among their top priorities for 2025. Leveraging a survey and the firm’s ongoing engagement with boards, directors, executives, and institutional investors, the report offers four recommendations for effective governance that integrate these priorities with reference to relevant benchmarking data, targeted questions, and links to relevant resources.
This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!