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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.