Boardroom magazine - Summer 2021-2022

Breaking barriers

Mele Wendt MInstD speaks about her accidental path into governance, mentorship, and what it’s like to be the only brown woman in the room.

read time: 2 min to read

A glass half full

Sustainability policies can provide opportunities as well as mitigate risks.

read time: 15 min to read

The top five issues for directors in 2022

Active regulators, ethics, global travel and supply chains, the talent shortage and climate – again.

read time: 5 min to read

Open for business

What can the UK’s experience of living with covid-19 tell us about New Zealand in 2022?

read time: 3 min to read

The test of pandemic preparedness

Without global change, the experience of the past 18 months is likely to be repeated.

read time: 6 min to read

Two heads, one body

Te Papa’s board has implemented a new strategy and a cooperative leadership model to change the organisation's culture.

read time: 5 min to read

Global talent pool

Google New Zealand Country Director Caroline Rainsford muses on the opportunities – and risks – to the tech sector of borders reopening.

read time: 5 min to read

From Amazon to Tauranga

Agility, trust and a commitment to the vision are key requirements of a start-up board, just as they are of a global corporation.

read time: 4 min to read

Enabling directors

The Companies (Directors Duties) Amendment Bill makes it clear that companies are able to act as responsible corporate citizens.

read time: 2 min to read

Balanced vaccination policies

Jeremy Sole MInstD explains how Etco - the Electrical Training Company arrived at its vaccination policies

read time: 8 min to read

The bonfire of the currencies

Two recent books by renowned economists have set the stage for today’s great debate over the future of money in a digital age.

read time: 3 min to read

Accountable human rights

Courts in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have sent shockwaves across the business world.

read time: 4 min to read

Vaccination – a passport to normality?

New Zealand’s vaccination regime is not going to get business back to usual, says immunologist Professor Graham Le Gros.

read time: 5 min to read

Interesting times

Dame Patsy Reddy on being Governor-General through the Kaikoura earthquake, the Christchurch Mosque shootings and the Whakaari eruption.

read time: 2 min to read

A coffee with… Sam Johnson MInstD

Solving problems is the motivation for this young director, award winner and Student Volunteer Army general.

read time: 3 min to read

The G20’s historic opportunity

Governments must abandon the toxic nationalism that has so far stood in the way of a sufficient global response to the pandemic.

read time: 4 min to read

Where is your auditor?

A shortage of auditors is threatening the ability of companies to meet their statutory reporting obligations.

read time: 4 min to read

Healthy work and society

The concept of healthy societies can help boards manage people risk in their organisations.

read time: 3 min to read

Tax governance

Inland Revenue’s focus on tax governance puts the spotlight on tax strategy and assurance, and puts boards on notice.

read time: 4 min to read

Could Fonterra’s business model solve the housing crisis?

Cooperative housing could be a big part of the solution to our affordable housing problem.

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date: 02 Oct 2024

Boardroom magazine - Spring 2024

The ‘value-adding board’ is one of the Top 5 issues facing directors in 2024. How do you measure your value as a director and a board?

date: 03 Jul 2024

Boardroom magazine - Winter 2024

Succession planning should not be difficult. Some organisations do it well, some not so well. Learn more in the latest issue of Boardroom.

date: 10 Apr 2024

Boardroom magazine - Autumn 2024

Why has New Zealand’s economy gone from being one of the most productive in the OECD to one of the least productive?

date: 15 Dec 2023

Boardroom magazine - Summer 2023-2024

In a world of continual crisis, directors need to take their game to a whole new level.

date: 29 Sep 2023

Boardroom magazine - Spring 2023

In the spring edition of Boardroom we look at shared value – one of the top 5 issues facing directors in 2023.

date: 20 Jun 2023

Boardroom magazine - Winter 2023

Our winter edition looks at different aspects of financial resilience, a topic surely top of mind for all boards and directors.

date: 31 Mar 2023

Boardroom magazine - Autumn 2023

Boards must govern faster than the speed of change. Board agility will become more important as the world spirals from crisis to crisis.

date: 20 Dec 2022

Boardroom magazine - Summer 2022-2023

Boards and directors are facing myriad challenges and many of these will only increase in scale and importance in 2023.