NICG Booklet “Board Dynamics”:

Corporate Crescendo - 2023/2 (full magazine)

• Thomas D. Szucs: Conducting Business: Of Chairs and Conductors

• Anna Mattsson: Starting from Scratch: How to Build a Board during a Spin-off

• Philipp Hallauer: Understanding the Auditor’s Independence and Why this is Relevant for the Board of Directors

• Gabe Shawn Varges: The Adaptive Borders of the Compensation Committee

• Petra Ginter and Rebecca Paumgartner-Schori: «Say on Strategy without Responsibility»?

• Davide Paliaga, Linda Kohri, Hanna Hummel, Michèle Sutter-Rüdisser, and Cornel Germann: Pay Transparency: Status Quo and Competitiveness in Switzerland

• Peter Hettich: Who Really Owns the State-owned Companies?

• Sonja Kissling: Conflicts of Competencies between Ownership and Company Strategy, respectively between Owners and Board of Directors

• Thomas Bohun: Navigating the Evolving Shareholder Landscape

• Daniel Heller : «Do Good and Talk about it.»: Communication as a Key Contributor to Success in Hospital Management

• Jakob Kungler : Information Barriers in Financial Services

Rethinking Competing Demands - 2023/1 (full magazine)

• Cornel Germann and Felix Horber: Mind the Gap: Expectation Discrepancy in Board Work Practices

• Davide Paliaga: Simple Radical Innovations for Boards of Directors Eager to Solve Grand Challenges

• Marc Huber: Fundamental Stakeholder Demands in Listed Companies

• Christian Reuss: ESG – How stock exchanges are accentuating positive change

• Stephan Hostettler and Hanna Hummel: Five Cornerstones for Successfully Embedding «Skin in the Game» in Executive Pay Strategy

• Jan Dietrich Müller: A new and strategic role for Corporate Communications has emerged that Boards have to consider

• Barbara Heller and Christoph Wenk Bernasconi: Board efficiency and effectiveness: The key for strategic success

• Sigrid Artho: Improving board effectiveness: A board advisor's perspective

• Kilian D. Grütter: Corporate Social Media Strategy (CSMS) als neue Aufgabe für den Verwaltungsrat?

Tackling Emerging Strategies - 2022/2 (full booklet)

• Cornel Germann: A Multi-stakeholder Approach: Is the Role of the Modern Stakeholder Changing to one with Corporate Influence?

• Kern Alexander: Bank Boards, Risk Culture and Sustainability

• Hanna Hummel und Claudia Würstle: Reward the talk – Pay for Performance includes Performance on ESG

• Matthias Ch. Würsten: Business Dynasties: An Evolutionary Perspective

• Eva Frehner und Thomas Berndt: The Effective Corporate Tax Rate («ETR»): Quo Vadis?

• Konstantin Žerebcov und Markus Winterholer: Cloud Governance

• Johanna Gollnhofer: Talk the Walk: Nachhaltigkeit richtig kommunizieren

• Andreas Rudolf: Die digitale Aktie – Evolution – Governance

• Damian Hartmann und Milan Schéda: Regulierung von ESG-Ratings bzw. ESG-Ratingagenturen – Bedeutung, Mängel und Handlungsoptionen

  
  

Rethinking ESG and Diversity - 2022/1 (full booklet)

• Peter Hongler: Is Tax Behavior a Flawed Sustainability / ESG Metric?

• Olaf Lang and Evelyn-Justine Dankelschijn-Aulike: Sustainability in relation to variable compensation

• Daniele Simoniello: Board Duties and the Application of the IFRS – The Legal Perspective

• Frank Pfaffenzeller: ESG Regulation for Financial Services Companies in the European Union

• Julia Barbar: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards in the MENA - Multiple Layers of Challenges and Conditions

• Nadine Jürgensen: Frauen an Bord – es ist Zeit für Pionierarbeit

• David Frick:Gedanken zur Generalversammlung der Zukunft

• Monika Krüsi: T-Modell als Zauberformel im Rollenspiel Verwaltungsrat und Geschäftsleitung

• Loris Pedron: The Resurfacing of Board Discretion in Variable Pay

• Michèle Sutter-Rüdisser and Dr. Felix Horber: Beziehung zwischen Chairperson und CEO: Zentral für den Unternehmenserfolg

Transformational Change in Governance - 2021/2 (full booklet)

• Michèle F. Sutter-Rüdisser: AI in the Boardroom – Revolutionizing Decision-Making Processes

• Giampaolo Gabbi: Risk management in uncertain times: Does it help to improve governance?

• Ralph P. Siegl: Paving the Yellow Brick Road: The corporate equity story as effective strategy tool for the Board of Directors

• Hendrik Schmidt: Why and How the G-Force matters – Insights from an institutional investor

• Thomas Sieber: How to Improve Board Teams

• Linus Flammer: (On)board sovereignty – Towards a first exploration of onboarding practices of newly-elected SMI board members

• Reto Müller: Bewährte Pfeiler eines erfolgreichen Business Krisenmanagements

• Felix Horber: Spielregeln der Generalversammlung auf dem Prüfstand

• Manuela Baeriswyl: Regulatorische Entwicklungen nach der Aktienrechtsrevision

• Erich Herzog: Nach der Abstimmung zur Unternehmens-Verantwortungs-Initiative: Die Entwicklungen gehen weiter, in der Schweiz wie auch in Europa

  
  

Coping with Uncertainty. Actions for the Now and the Future - 2021/1 (full booklet)

• Hermann Geiger: COVID-19 Krisenmanagement aus Sicht des Chief Legal Officers

• Erik Linden: Covid-19 Long-term Planning in Times of Environmental Uncertainty

• Anette Bronder: Digital Transformation and Corporate Governance: Transparency, Traction and Talent as Key Ingredients

• Cornel Germann: Teeter-Totter in Discretionary Disclosure: Why Firms Should Extend
  Board Succession and Composition Reporting

• Yasmine Bensultana: Decision Making in the Boardroom. Towards a new Understanding of
  Corporate Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

• Felix Horber & Christina Lusti: The group as a guiding model for the governance of an ecosystem?

• Katja Roth-Pellanda: Redefinition of the Corporate Purpose and the Increased Importanceof «E» and «S» within ESG

• Dario Sutter: Von der Corporate Governance zur Foundation Governance

• Michèle F. Sutter-Rüdisser & Felix Horber: Die Nachhaltigkeit als neues Standbein der Corporate Governance
  
  

Future Governance Management - 2020/1 (full booklet)

• Michèle Sutter-Rüdisser: Why Rethinking the Future requires Presence in the Here and Now

• Peter Forstmoser: Schweizer Aktienrecht 2020

• Felix Horber: Die Änderung der GV-Einladung im Kontext von Stimmrechtsinstruktionen

• Susanne Kalls: Aufsichtsrat und Verwaltungsrat

• Cornel Germann: Nomination Committee: Overlooking the Obvious?

• Jérôme Haegeli: COVID-19: A Bumpy Road Ahead

• Patrick Raaflaub & Reto Schnarwiler: Sustainability as Long-term Value Driver

• Regula Wallimann: COVID-19 and the Audit Committee: Critical Success Factors

• Stephan Hostettler & Claudia Würstle: ESG by Default

• Dalith Steiger & Andy Fitze: The Power of Collaboration
  
  

Information Management - 2019/1 (full booklet)

• Michèle Sutter-Rüdisser: Board Dynamics Revised – Rethinking Inova©tion. Why good things are often closer than you (may) think

• Felix Horber: Information Management at Board Level

• Heiko Petry: Blockchain Innovation from a Corporate Governance Perspective

• Katharina Schramm: Why effective Communication with Internal Audit is invaluable for the Board of Directors

• Simon Friedle: Litigation IR – Investor Relations in Legal Disputes as a Strategic Management Task

• Karla Linden: Non-GAAP Reporting – Information Content and Intransparency

• Cornel Germann: The Three Lines of Control – An Adaptation for Financial Services
  
  

Other publications by authors from our network:

Frehner, E., Berndt, T. & Hongler, P. (2021). Sind Steuern Teil der ESG-Strategie? Neue Steuertrends bei freiwilligen Offenlegungen von SMI Unternehmen. Expert Focus, 2021 (10), S. 459-466.

Sutter-Rüdisser, M. & Germann, C. (2021). Good Corporate Governance - Essenz einer kurzen historischen Reflexion. VM - Fachzeitschrift für Verbands- und Nonprofit-Management, VM 1/21.

Sutter-Rüdisser, M., Germann, C. & Letsch, M. (2021). “David” in der Corporate Governance. Wie die Blockchain “Goliath” hilft, Effizienz und Wirkung zu erzeugen. Expert Focus, 2021/4.

Sutter-Rüdisser, M. F. (2021). Cognitive diversity as a key success factor in innovative corporate governance. Board Leadership News, 01/2021.

Forstmoser, P. & Horber, F. (2020, April). Lex specialis: Die Corona-Generalversammlung.

Horber, F. & Frick, D. (2020, 5. März). Coronavirus und Generalversammlungen. Notfallplanung für die GV. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).

Sutter-Rüdisser, M. F. & Germann, C. (2020). Three Lines of Defense Modell. Eine Adaption für Finanzdienstleister. Board - Zeitschrift für Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland, (1/2020).

Sutter-Rüdisser, M. F. (2017). Corporate Governance 4.0: Ein Plädoyer für besser anstelle von mehr. Expert Focus, 91 (10), S. 713-15. ISSN 0036-746X.

Schramm, K. & Sutter-Rüdisser, M. F. (2016). The More the Merrier? The Relationship between Structural Configurations of Corporate Governance and Firm Performance. EIASM - 13th Workshop on Corporate Governance. Milano, Italy.

Sutter-Rüdisser, M. F. (2016). Vom Damoklesschwert über dem Schweizer Verwaltungsrat und was wirklich zählt. In Kalss, Susanne & Kunz, Peter (Hrsg.): Handbuch für den Aufsichtsrat, S. 1715-1726. Wien: Facultas.