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2025 REVIEW QUIZ:

True or False: Nearly half of directors think their board adds insufficient value.

What percentage of directors said their board adds no value at all?
A) 10%
B) 18%
C) 31%
D) 69% (nice)

True or False: Women run 11% of Fortune 500 companies in 2025.

True — 11%. Don’t clap.

Women hold 24% of CEO pipeline roles but only ___% of promotions.
A) 24%
B) 16%
C) 8%
D) 0%, if the board had its way

Which company plans to automate up to 90% of privacy and societal risk reviews using AI?
A) OpenAI
B) Meta
C) Google
D) Twitter (sorry, “X”)

Why did BlackRock get removed from Texas’ boycott list?
A) Legal challenge
B) Accounting error
C) ESG retreat
D) They promised not to say “climate” out loud

Why did PepsiCo say it delayed its net-zero target from 2040 to 2050?
A) The board miscalculated emissions
B) Shareholders voted against climate goals
C) A change in climate accounting rules
D) “The systems around us” weren’t ready

True or False: UK financial regulators scrapped mandatory rules because “DEI paperwork is annoying.”

True: UK financial regulators scrapped mandatory DEI rules citing regulatory burden.

The new acronym JPMorgan prefers over “DEI” is:

D&I

EDI

DOI

“Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion”

“Please Stop Asking”

Which word even became unsafe during federal climate language purges?
A) Sustainability
B) Climate
C) Resilience
D) All of them, coward

Which CEO criticized ISS and Glass Lewis as “incompetent”?
A) Elon Musk
B) Jamie Dimon
C) Larry Fink
D) All men eventually

Which phrase best describes modern CEO accountability?
A) Robust
B) Improving
C) Optional
D) Decorati