Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

• Risks, Challenges and Benefits from Board Membership - Imagination and Corporate Objectives - Reasons for Strategic Planning - Making a Strategic Plan - The Board of Directors - The Business of the Board - Corporate Policy: Its Stratergic Role - Qualities a Good Director Needs - Training the Corporate Directors - Satisfying the Information Needs of the Board - The Savage Competititon for Strategic Products - The International Corporation - Organizational Perspectives in Multinational Business - The Big Corporations' Fear: Litigation - Mergers, Acquisitions, Disinvestments - Venture Capital and the Board - How Successful is a Consolidation Policy? - Government and Industry: Partnership or Conflict? - Epilogue - Appendix - Index