Part II: The Way It Was.

• Author: Kristie, James
• Position: Brief Article

THE HISTORY OF THE CORPORATE BOARD continues in the following section. Here is a year-by-year walk through the past 25 years. We revisit some of the notable articles that we have published in each of those years to see what was on the minds of the authors at the time when we originally recorded their observations. (The title of the article and the issue date are included in each author's bio note.) This is, indeed, the way it was. This is what a remarkably diverse and accomplished group of individuals were thinking when they viewed the governance system in general and their own role within that system in particular. From these words of...