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Board gender diversity and business performance: Understanding and completing the narrative

Published Sun, Jul 1, 2018 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    THE gender diversity deficit in business leadership has been lamented as a critical concern all across the world. But the exhortation must be more substantiated.

    It has to go beyond having women for the sake of having women. It has to go to the root of the matter in why having such diversity matters for business.

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