Mood of the Boardroom

Mood of the Boardroom The Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2024 CEOs Survey attracted participation from 103 respondents. They include leaders of New Zealand’s biggest companies ranging across agribusiness, banking and finance, manufacturing, aviation and tourism, transport and logistics, education, telecommunications, environmental services, energy, insurance, professional services, and more. The survey was in field from August 30-September 25. Results from …

Mood of the Boardroom 2023 The Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom Election 2023 CEOs Survey attracted participation from 120 respondents. This year, 100 chief executives, 14 senior directors or chairs, and the heads of six business organisations participated. They include leaders of New Zealand’s biggest companies ranging across agribusiness, banking and finance, manufacturing, aviation and tourism, transport and logistics, education, …

The Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2022 CEOs Survey attracted participation from 108 respondents. This year, 90 chief executives and 18 senior directors or chairs, took part. They include leaders of NZ’s biggest companies ranging across agribusiness, banking and finance, manufacturing, aviation and tourism, education, telecommunications, environmental services, energy, insurance, professional services, and more. The survey was in the market …

The late Sir Michael Cullen was blessed with a sharp intellect and quick wit overlaid with his occasional trademark sarcasm. At the Herald’s 2005 Mood of the Boardroom election breakfast, Cullen painstakingly laid out the strategies he had employed over six years to underpin economic growth as he teased then-opponent Sir John Key on the merits of a $3.9 billion …

The New Zealand Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2020 Election Year survey, taken in association with BusinessNZ, provided an in-depth assessment of CEO opinion at what was the most concerning time in the survey’s long history due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 Mood of the Boardroom CEOs Survey attracted participation from 165 respondents. This survey saw opinions some 140 …

The 2019 Mood of the Boardroom CEOs Survey attracted participation from 157 respondents. There were some 140 chief executives including CEOs of some of NZ’s biggest companies, some publicly owned institutions and heads of several influential business organisations and several directors. The Herald survey is conducted in association with BusinessNZ. BusinessNZ put 15 questions from the survey to its membership …

The 2018 Mood of the Boardroom report looked into The Confidence Conundrum. Not enough experience or action, too many committees and surprises – that was business leaders’ verdict on the Coalition Government in the Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom survey. In the 2018 survey, chief executives were asked to dig behind the business confidence numbers, run their ruler over the …

The 2017 Mood of the Boardroom report showed an overwhelming majority of chief executives see Jacinda Ardern’s confirmation as leader of the Labour Party as an election game-changer. There was a strong mood for change among the 118 respondents to the Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom Election Survey. Some 88 per cent saw Ardern as the lightning rod which could …

The growth pressures in Auckland were the clear issue in the 2016 Mood of the Boardroom report – housing and infrastructure were in sore need of addressing and the CEOs wanted to see action in these areas. The Auckland mayoral election of 2016 saw widespread dissatisfaction for the business community, with Phil Goff receiving the reluctant plurality of support. The …

2015 marked the year that housing emerged as a preeminent issue in the Mood of the Boardroom survey, with mentions of housing on over 10 different pages of the report. Other emerging issues included the slump in dairy prices, the Trans Pacific Partnership, and weak regional economic growth. After a 2014 of positivity, CEOs began to predict an economic slowdown on …