Boards Under Crisis

Alberto Lavín is Strategy Adjunct Professor for IE Business School. Previously a partner with Accenture, the consulting giant, he now heads his own consulting practice and acts as a family business nonexecutive director and advisor. In 2014, he published, together with Carmelo Mazza, “Boards under crisis: board action under pressure”.Carmelo Mazza holds a PhD in Business Economics from IESE Business School. His research interests focus on decision-making and on creative processes. In the last three decades, he hastaught in leading institutions (among others, Copenhagen Business School, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and IE Business School) and acted as management consultant and top manager.

• 1. Boards In Their Environment.- 2. Crisis, What Crisis? Boardroom Crisis in Corporate Settings.- 4. What You Can Do Tomorrow Will Depend Largely on Your Thinking Today: Increased Short Termism and Strategic Myopia During Crisis 5. 'I want to personally check that': Centralization at the Boardroom During Crisis.- 6.The Portrait of Board Life from Within. Parochialism and Conflict at the Top.- 7. Strategic Management and OB 8. Remedies for Defective Decision Making Models Under Crisis.