Introduction: EuropeanPWN 2004 Survey As a starting point for my remarks, I want to refer to the study that we undertook in conjunction with the European Professional Women’s Network almost 12 months ago. The purpose of this study was to look at two of the more obvious signs of diversity on the Boards of Europe’s largest companies. More specifically, we looked at: • the number of the female Boa...

CDFIs serve an important social function because they provide access to financial services to underserved low-income individuals and households. Understanding which governance mechanisms promote efficient use of scarce resources that these organizations control is important because only sustainable institutions have the potential to revitalize low-income communities and change low-income indivi...

We study the impact of the size of a firm’s board of directors on managerial incentives. We present a model where a risk-averse agent (the top management team) performs multiple tasks for a firm that is controlled by multiple principals (the board of directors) who differ in the relative value they place on each task. We show that the agent’s incentives are lower than they would be had the boar...

This paper examines Nigeria. The ratio of the three major tribes to t board ethnic diversity. the Nigerian Stock Exchange and a cross sectional OLS regressio collected from annual reports and through board members background profile searching. The argument that there is a possibility of improving balancing. The main finding board of quoted companies in Nige Allowing for interaction among the et...

needed in the SCI database. Third, international diversity must be fulfilled. This means that authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members are from around the world. Fourth, citations to the journal itself (impact factor) and citations to the contributing authors, editorial board members of KJFM must be more than some point. It is a very challenging task for KJFM to be listed in the S...

The identity of patients must be protected when patient data are shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work mainly considers data sets with a single sensitive attribute, while patient data often contain multiple sensitive attributes (e.g., diagnosis and treatment). This article shows that although the K-anony...

This study examines the effects of gender diversity on economic performance within the microfinance industry. We use ROA to capture financial performance and OpEx to capture operating efficiency. We measure gender diversity at two hierarchical levels: gender diversity within the Board represents the decision-making level; gender composition within the rank of loan officers embodies the operatio...