2020 American Corporate Governance Index: Making Strides Amid Crisis

Organizations globally were tested in 2020 like never before. The COVID-19 pandemic created a firestorm in virtually every aspect of business, from cash flow challenges prompted by extended lock downs, to extraordinary customer and employee safety measures, to talent management and technology issues created by distributed workforces. These trials of organizational resilience and crisis management were spread across all sectors and industries, creating varied and unique challenges.

 

Yet, at least for publicly traded organizations responding to this year’s American Corporate Governance Index (ACGI) survey, the health of the nation’s corporate governance not only held its own, it improved slightly during the greatest global public health crisis in a century.