HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Boards (with bonus article “What Makes Great Boards Great” by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld)

Index

Abramson, Jill, 191, 192

accountability

of boards, 33, 61, 86

boards as drivers of, 218–219

individual, 5, 12, 15

of shareholders, 40–41, 46, 47, 65

Ackman, Bill, 39, 40, 51, 55, 68

Actavis, 67

activist investors, 39–40, 50–51, 54–56, 65, 67–72, 98

Adelphia Communications, 1, 6

African American board candidates, 130–132

age, of board members, 5–6, 106

Millennials on boards, 125

agency costs, 43

agency model, 40–56, 62–63, 65

flaws in, 43–48

foundations of, 42–43

implications for companies of, 52–54

in practice, 48–52

agency theory, 40–48, 56–60, 64

agenda management, 10, 31, 33–34, 37, 95

Alaska Air Group, 202

Allergan, 39, 40, 46–48, 51, 55, 67–71

Allstate, 124, 126

Alza, 13

Amazon, 75, 130–133, 151

Amelio, Gil, 160

American Express, ...