Eight of the largest 30 public companies have foreign bosses, but the rest of their boards' members are predominantly German, even at the country's most multinational firms.
With 13 members, the Corporation is one of Harvard's two governing boards; members of the other board, the Board of Overseers, are elected by holders of Harvard degrees.
The timing of the offer coincides with the re-election of five Qualcomm board seats up for re-election at the end of the year, which Broadcom and institutional investors could use to elect boards members more supportive of the acquisition.
Like on many older message boards, members can list age, gender, and location, as well as several ways of describing their ethnicity, various DNA markers, and supposed ethnic phenotype.
University of Washington Adjunct Professor, Cate Goethals, and Global Management Consultant, Susan Bloch, conducted a study, "Better Boards Project" (December 2014), in which they surveyed 102 boards members, male and female, from around the globe, on their opinions and observations.
On the weakest boards, members of the board's nomination committee cast the net widely but ineffectively often falling back upon friends from their athletic teams, Greek life or graduating class.
