Challenge in the boardroom: Director–manager question‐and‐answer interactions at board meetings

Entrepreneurship in the Boardroom: Board Roles in Managing Innovation

Today’s competitive health care markets demand innovation and risk taking on the part of organizations. However, increased government regulation and stiffer penalties enacted in the wake of recent high -profile corporate scandals and the resulting Sarbanes–Oxley legislation, may render boards less willing to undertake entrepreneurial ventures. This article extends the typology of corporate entr...

Center for Effective Organization WHO’S IN THE BOARDROOM AND DOES IT MATTER: THE IMPACT OF HAVING NON-DIRECTOR EXECUTIVES ATTEND BOARD MEETINGS

Demographic Diversity in the Boardroom: Mediators of the Board Diversity–Firm Performance Relationship

Whereas the majority of research on board diversity explores the direct relationship between racial and gender diversity and firm performance, this paper investigates mediators that explain how board diversity is related to firm performance. Grounded in signalling theory and the behavioural theory of the firm, we suggest that this relationship operates through two mediators: firm reputation and...

Capturing Interactions in Meetings with Omnidirectional Cameras

Human interaction is one of the most important characteristics of meetings. To explore complex human interactions in meetings we must understand them and their components in detail. In this paper we present our efforts in capturing human interactions in meetings using omnidirectional cameras. We present algorithms for person tracking, head pose estimation, and face recognition from omnidirectio...

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...