Shareholder valuations are economically and statistically positively correlated with independent director power, gauged by a composite of social network power centrality measures. Powerful directors’ sudden deaths reduce shareholder value significantly; other do not, consistent powerful directors increasing firm valuations. Further tests associate more less value-destroying mergers acquisitions...

The Olympia School District Board of Directors held an Executive Session for the purpose of the Superintendent’s evaluation at 6:00 p.m., Monday, July 21, 2003, at Rogers Elementary School, 2001 26th Avenue NE, Olympia, Washington. The meeting was called to order at 6:10 p.m., immediately recessing into Executive Session. Present were: President Barclift, Directors Keeffe, Lehman, McGee and Par...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the current status of ethics education in obstetrics-gynecology residency programs. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional, web-based survey was designed in conjunction with a professional survey laboratory at the University of Chicago. The survey was piloted with a convenience sample of clinical medical ethics fellows to assess question content and ...

This study aims to determine the influence of Board Directors, Institutional Ownership, and Managerial Ownership on Financial Distress in Transportation Subsector Companies Listed Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2018-2020 Period. used a sample 29 companies from 3 periods using purposive sampling method. The independent variables this are board directors as measured by calculating number members re...

This study explores the influence of board independence, board size, CEO duality, board diligence, board financial expertise and presence of audit committee as well as the type of sector on the timeliness of financial reports among selected Jordanian companies. The timeliness of the financial reports is measured by audit report lag (ARL) and management report lag (MRL). This study covers 112 fi...

This study examined influences on the likelihood that directors of U.S. corporations will receive additional board appointments. We tested hypotheses with original survey data from 760 outside directors at large and medium-sized U.S. firms. Supplementary analyses assessed post-Enron era generalizability. Directors increased their chances of board appointments via provision of advice and informa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES American Osteopathic Association (AOA) accreditation of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) family medicine residency programs began in the early 1990s to increase the number of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Education (OGME) training positions in family medicine. Despite the rapid expansion of family medicine residencies accredited by both the A...