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The Power of a Board Chair

Associations Now

New research says a board chair might be better equipped to make decisions in a crisis than a CEO. The tricky part: Avoiding a power struggle. What can an effective board chair do for an organization? Quite a bit, some recent research suggests—especially when it comes to leading through a crisis. In a recent Journal of Managemen t article, three business scholars looked at how companies fared when board chairs or CEOs took the lead in response to a crisis such as COVID-19.