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Research: How Women Improve Decision-Making on Boards

November 17, 2023 • By Margarethe Wiersema and Marie Louise Mors

Margarethe Wiersema, Dean’s Professor of strategic management at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, and Marie Louise Mors write: “The confidential nature of board meetings and directors’ reluctance to convey what transpires in the boardroom means that we fail to fully understand whether and how the presence of women influences board dynamics and firm outcomes. In an attempt to fill that empirical gap, we conducted in-depth interviews with women and men directors who have collectively served as directors with more than 200 publicly traded companies on the major stock exchanges in the U.S. and Europe.”