Recommended Reading: What Can For-Profit and Nonprofit Boards Learn from Each Other?

Jun 5, 2015

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This publication focuses on lessons that for-profit and nonprofit directors can learn from each other, including:

Lessons for Nonprofits:

  • Formal governance processes
  • Focus on fiduciary obligations
  • Expertise and stability

Lessons for Corporate Boards:

  • Balanced power with CEO
  • CEO compensation
  • Gender balance

Lessons for Both:

  • Nonfinancial performance measurement
  • CEO succession planning
  • Racial diversity

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