The Case for Women on Boards: Taking the Long View

Sep 10, 2013

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The current push for board diversity of gender is not about filling quotas. Rather, diversity of gender almost guarantees that long-term horizons will be a voiced and focused priority, which, in the short term, translates to more ways of identifying and analyzing issues and creating and implementing solutions…which, in turn, leads to long-term shareholder value creation…which all boards should care about.

 

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