Corporate governance experts should consider whether there should be real mechanisms to throw out and replace bad boards.
In particular, the governance structure should consider how and whether research is likely to benefit African patients and accommodate limitations to informed consent.
Although the team used broad search terms to try and identify a wide range of evidence, our requirement that papers should consider governance mechanisms and workforce meant most papers were excluded.
Deciding where to draw the boundary for an analysis of any part of the health research system is never clear-cut, and where possible the analysis should consider the governance structures for the funding and management of health research, and discuss some of the challenges faced.
To Bob Zukis, a technology executive, former Big 4 accounting firm advisory partner and current member of various technology company advisory boards, and a senior fellow at The Conference Board's Governance Center the single most important factor boards should consider is adding a director with cybersecurity governance skills to the board.
This paper also identifies particular institutional architecture concepts that stakeholders and sovereigns should consider when designing governance institutions, which focus on how to balance incentives, reduce uncertainty, increase confidence and reduce costs.
"The parliamentary commission on banking standards' examination of the corporate governance of systemically important financial institutions should consider how to mitigate the risk that the leadership style of a chief executive may permit a lack of effective challenge or to the firm committing strategic mistakes," the report said.
Such screening can be practically integrated with corruption or money-laundering due diligence and should consider similar metrics: (1) corporate governance; (2) disputes and investigation history; (3) sector risk; and (4) regional/geographic risk.
Financial market participants should consider the environmental, social and governance factors and indicators listed in Annex Ia of this Regulation.
