The Boardroom Blog

Are UK businesswomen more likely to be CEOs, FDs or in another director role?

Thursday, September 01, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Research, Thought Leadership | Tags: business, statistics, Board, report, survey, UK, CEO, data, CFO, FD, women, infographic, IBR, finance director, women in business, gender, diversity, International Business Report

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Find out which senior management positions UK businesswomen are getting with our visualisation of data from the 2011 Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), which reveals the distribution of roles across UK boardrooms.

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Changing face of risk management in the UK / Ireland

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Risk | Tags: business, governance, recession, report, survey, UK, strategy, risk, data, business models, risk management, Ireland, appetite, attitudes

Risk appetite statements are a growing trend in the UK, while 84% of surveyed companies in Ireland are changing how they view risk, according to our recent report. Here, two experts from Grant Thornton, review the changing approaches to risk in the UK and Ireland post-recession.

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