A Year-End Governance Check-Up for Private Companies
Before the year closes, take an hour to review your company’s governance basics: ownership records, approvals, officers, policies and insurance. Here is a checklist.
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How to Prepare a Board Meeting Packet Directors Will Read
A well-organized board packet turns meetings into real discussions. Here is what to include, how to structure it and how far ahead to send it.
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How Parent Companies Support Subsidiary Growth
A parent company exists to make the businesses it owns stronger than they would be on their own. That is the whole test. If a subsidiary would do just as well without its parent, the structure is adding cost without adding value.
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Understanding Corporate Ethics Programs
Every company has an ethics program, whether it writes one down or not. The program is simply the set of expectations people actually follow when no one is watching and the right answer is inconvenient.
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The Importance of Transparency in Corporate Leadership
Transparency is easy to talk about and hard to practice. It asks leaders to share bad news as readily as good news, to explain decisions they could simply announce and to admit when they got something wrong.
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Understanding Corporate Risk Management
Every company carries risk. The ones that last are the ones that decide, on purpose, which risks they will take, which they will avoid and which they will hand to someone else.
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Creating a Corporate Records Management Program
Every company is, in a sense, a long chain of decisions and promises. Records are how you prove what was decided and what was promised.
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The Role of a Board of Directors in Modern Companies
A board of directors is the group of people responsible for overseeing a corporation on behalf of its shareholders. It does not run the business day to day; that is the job of management. Instead, the board sets direction, supervises leadership, protects the company’s long-term interests, and makes the most significant decisions. This article is
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Internal Controls Every Growing Business Should Implement
Internal controls are the checks and routines that keep a business’s money, data, and decisions safe from error and misuse. They are not about distrust. They protect honest people from mistakes, protect the business from fraud, and give owners confidence that the numbers they see are real. This article is part of Boston Made’s February
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What Is a Holding Company and Why Do Businesses Use Them?
A holding company is one of the most common, and most misunderstood, structures in business. At its simplest, it is a company whose main purpose is to own other companies or assets rather than to sell products or services directly. This article is part of Boston Made’s February corporate governance and growth series. As a
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Building Trust Through Transparency
A long-form article on how transparency helps organizations build trust with customers, partners, users, and stakeholders.
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Building a Culture of Data Responsibility
A long-form guide to building a culture of data responsibility through leadership, training, governance, and accountability.
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How Organizations Handle Website Data Responsibly
A detailed look at responsible website data practices, including analytics, access controls, data retention, and governance.
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What a Board of Directors Actually Does
Boards are often misunderstood as either rubber stamps or micromanagers. Here is what directors are responsible for, how boards work and when a small company might want one.
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