Interdependencies of female board member appointments

Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors

W provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, microlevel data on their views regarding the firm prior to being appointed to the board: sell-side analysts who are subsequently appointed to the boar...

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After receiving a doctorate in Biochemistry at the University of Köln, Germany, in 1995, Dr. Boison continued his scientific career at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zürich and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland, where he began to focus on therapeutic epilepsy research and received a Habilitation in Cellular Pharmacology. In 2005 he moved to the Legac...

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Professor Geoffrey Burnstock is a neuroscientist and he received his PhD Degree from University College London. He is President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School. His work has been recognised by various honours, such as ‘Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Sciences’ a 2000 Janssen Award in Gastroenterology’, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of P...

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Roland Brandt studied Biochemistry and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin in Germany. He performed his doctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, after which he continued as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Neurologic Diseases (CND), Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). By returning to Germany, he became an i...

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