We study the participation of women in golf, a predominately male social activity, and its influence on their likelihood of serving on a board of directors. Exploiting a novel dataset of all golf games in Singapore, we find that woman golfers enjoy a 54% higher likelihood of serving on a board relative to male golfers. A woman’s probability of serving on the board in a large firm or in a predom...

We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms’ board members with corporate performance via board members’ nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that cannot be captured by other recently measured indices of diversity. Using a panel of firms listed in the ...

Field Editor: Dimo Dimov This study extends the concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to the network level to investigate how diversity among officers serving on network organization boards affects networklevel entrepreneurial orientation (NEO). Using data from 53 strategic network organizations across five years, we found that insider/outsider and functional diversity among network board...

2169 The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) Advisory Editorial Board includes over 100 prominent scientists. To ensure that the Advisory Editorial Board covers the diversity of research fields served by the journal, offers the next generation of researchers an opportunity to participate, and improves in gender balance, we welcome to the Board the experts listed below. Adding new voices and ...

Increasingly nonprofit boards of directors are becoming more racially diverse or face pressures to increase their diversity. This research used survey data from 121 executive directors in nonprofit organizations in two metropolitan areas to investigate the affect of board member diversity, attitudes, and recruitment practices on board performance. Analysis revealed that boards with a higher per...