Corporate Board Diversity Gets Push from Business Leaders - McDermott Will & Emery

Corporate Board Diversity Gets Push from Business Leaders

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Michael Peregrine wrote this bylined article about new Business Roundtable governance principles which for the first time endorsed a link between racial and ethnic diversity in boards and board effectiveness and the creation of long-term shareholder value. This recommendation, wrote Mr. Peregrine, “is the most prominent acknowledgment of diversity as a governance principle, and a standard that nominating committees are advised to adopt.”