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Your Starting Point for Critical Governance Content

Explore the most up-to-date and unbiased governance expertise with our carefully curated resources. NACD partners with subject-matter experts and governance community thought leaders to bring you differentiated content on critical subjects.

Members can access foundational topics and emerging trends, along with quantitative research and forward-looking initiatives. Begin here, with some of our leading reports, or choose the topics you want to investigate today.

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Election Insights

A collection of NACD content, research, and events to prepare your board for the 2024 US presidential election and beyond.

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NACD Blue Ribbon Commission Report

Culture as the Foundation:
Building a High-Performance Board

The 2023 Blue Ribbon Commission report calls on boards to explicitly use culture as an instrument to drive board excellence in today’s complex environment.

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2023 Public Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey

The latest boardroom trends and activities for directors of publicly traded companies.

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Artificial Intelligence

What it is, what the risks are, and where opportunities lie.

Board Leadership

The art of mastering board guidance.

Cybersecurity

Understanding the implications and oversight of this critical topic.

Private Company Governance

Essential advice for privately held companies.

Strategy & Risk

Get ahead of risks by setting sound strategy.

Director Essentials

Explore foundational concepts in governance.

Director Essentials

Financial Oversight Under Varying Economic Conditions

Learn about the challenges of inflation, recession, and stock market volatility.
Director Essentials

Unionization on the Rise

What boards should know to navigate this human capital trend.
Director Essentials

Understanding Nonfinancial Metrics

A guide to navigating the five essential categories for each metric.

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Online Articles from Directorship^®

The most up-to-date and noteworthy articles including our former BoardTalk blog.

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Read Our 10 Most Popular Online Articles

From January to June 2024.
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Private Company Boards Need Additional Information Enable Strategic Discussion, Survey Finds

Top areas of concern for directors from the NACD 2024 Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey.
Online Article

Building a Board of Unique Strengths

Hear from Tarang P. Amin, e.l.f. Beauty chair and CEO, on his path to the boardroom and the value of board diversity.
Directorship Online

Why Good Boards Make Bad Decisions

Factors that undermine healthy board culture and how boards can break through these barriers to make better decisions.
Directorship Online

Taking Strategy ‘Back to the Future’

Unlock the benefits of bringing a futurist lens to strategic discussions by implementing this guidance, helping take your company into the future.
Directorship Online

Scaling Generative AI Solutions and Fostering an AI-First Approach

Best practices for scaling generative artificial intelligence across an enterprise, as well as what it means to take an AI-first approach.

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