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Should the boards of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, General Motors, Northern Rock, Saab Automobile, Beyond Petroleum and others have been able to avoid the disasters that subsequently hit these corporations? Could their boards have been much more proactive at an earlier stage so as to lead the companies into different and more sustainable strategic avenues and business models?
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© 2013 Ulf Lindgren
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Lindgren, U. (2013). The board of the future. In: All Above Board. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264268_2
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