Corporate Boards Are Too White, Too Male–And Too Old. Here Are 4 Ways to Fix That

A few months after I graduated from Stanford’s business school in 2013, Theranos was generating buzz on campus—and not all of it was good. One evening, I found myself in a dinner party conversation with a group of some of the university’s brightest scientific minds. When talk landed on the still mostly-unknown medical technology startup that had raised nearly $100 million in venture capital since getting its start on campus a decade earlier...
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