Thinking Broad and Deep: Why Some Directors Exert an Outsized Influence on Strategic Change

The authors acknowledge the helpful comments of Robert Dewar, J. P. Eggers, Sam Garg, Henrich Greve, Donald Hambrick, Paul Hirsch, Vilmos Misangyi, Klaus Weber, and David H. Zhu; seminar participants at IESE Business School, INSEAD, Northeastern University, and Purdue University; and Organization Science Senior Editor Giovanni Gavetti and two anonymous reviewers. They also thank the Zell Center for Risk Research at Northwestern University for providing financial assistance and David Torres, Nadia Hlebowitsh, and Margaret Hlebowitsh for their data collection assistance.