Managing Your Board

Interactive Case Study

Smurfit-Stone: Rebuilding the Board

The Issue: When a Takeover Creates Conflicts

Smurfit-Stone's parent was bought out by a group that owned rival papermakers. Some directors wound up serving two masters. They had to go

Issue Analysis

 

The Analysis: How to Pick a New Team of Directors

When an upheaval sunders your board, it's a chance to think hard about what skills are best going to benefit the company

Comment: What Would You Do?

"It seems Smurfit-Stone took what could have been a disastrous situation with its board and made it work to its advantage. Ideally, that's how management should look at and problem—where is the opportunity here?"

—Patricia O'Connell

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