David and Sharon Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation Blog

February 3, 2021

Interview: The Making of LongView with Tony Spizzirri

In 2021, the Johnston Centre launched the LongView,an evolutionin governance reporting, which enablesevery company in the TSX indextocompare elements of itsgovernance - process, structure and...

February 3, 2021

Governance at a Glance: The Johnston Centre launches LongView

Over the last 20 years, our researchers have learnt that while there is no single best practice, good governance is a critical part of long-term, sustainablevalue creation. Today, we are very...

David Beatty on the most important question boards can ask themselves now: How long is your real strategic time horizon?

November 30, 2020

Board Games: 19 years of shining a spotlight into Canada's board ...

For 19 years, Board Games, the Globe and Mail's ranking of Canada's corporate boards, has shined a spotlight into the country's boardrooms. Once again this year, researchers at the...

December 13, 2019

The 2019 Board Sharehold Confidence Index is now out!

For the 16th year in a row, The Johnston Centre ranked boards of directors by their performance and potential to act in an effective way. The 2019 Board Shareholders’ Confidence Index (BSCI)...

What does good governance like for family firms and why should we care?

September 18, 2019

What does good governance look like for family firms and why sho ...

Family businesses are the cornerstone of the Canadian economy: 80% of all companies are family-owned and according to some estimates they account for 60% of Canada’s GDP per year. Family...

May 9, 2019

18 Years of Board Ratings

Back in 2002, Rotman began data collection for the first ever iteration of the Board Shareholder Confidence Index. Since then, the project has generated approximately 400 data points per year for each of the 250-odd issuers on the S&P/TSX Composite Index.