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Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety

  • Written by Corinne Post, Professor of Management, Lehigh University
imageCorporate boards with women on them are more likely to recall dangerous products.Image Source/Getty Images

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Medical supply companies with boards that included at least two women recalled life-threatening products almost a month sooner than those with all-male boards, accor...

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