Membership of the Board of Directors: The Job Top Executives Want No More

Risks, Challenges and Benefits from Board Membership - Imagination and Corporate Objectives - Reasons for Strategic Planning - Making a Strategic Plan - The Board of Directors - The Business of the Board - Corporate Policy: Its Stratergic Role - Qualities a Good Director Needs - Training the Corporate Directors - Satisfying the Information Needs of the Board - The Savage Competititon for Strategic Products - The International Corporation - Organizational Perspectives in Multinational Business - The Big Corporations' Fear: Litigation - Mergers, Acquisitions, Disinvestments - Venture Capital and the Board - How Successful is a Consolidation Policy? - Government and Industry: Partnership or Conflict? - Epilogue - Appendix - Index