Board at the top: how the make-up of a board affects its ability to govern

In the decade since the Great Recession, largely blamed on the potentially illegal, seemingly shady and backhanded actions of global financial institutes, there has been a concerted push for greater transparency of corporate governance (CG), and decision-making at the board level. Trust in corporations across the globe has remained low for much of the recovery period since the Great Recession, with the public largely mistrusting of the professed desires on the parts of the world's largest corporations to do things better. One of the main issues is the apparent disconnect felt by those on the outside between what a corporation...