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Having the best board possible

Published on October 31, 2024   39 min

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Interviewer: Today, in the third of three interviews, I'm interviewing Professor Michael Useem, Faculty Director of the Leadership Center and McNulty Leadership Program, Wharton School, and William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management, University of Pennsylvania, USA, on having the best board possible and optimizing their performance. All three interviews are explorations and extensions of articles which Professor Useem is a joint author. The articles discussed today are, If the Board Monitors the Company, Who Monitors the Board? by Michael Useem, Dennis Carey, and Ram Charan, published in Harvard Business Review on 1st of April, 2014, and How Boards Can Innovate, by the same team of authors in the following month, also in Harvard Business Review. Listeners are expected to have read both articles before listening to this interview. Professor Useem, thank you once more for sparing the time. To start, both articles were written a decade ago. Are the issues you discuss still relevant? Prof. Useem: Well, Neil, first of all, great to talk with you again, and if anything, the articles are more relevant now, in 2024, than they were in 2014. Focusing on who monitors the monitors,

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