POINT OF VIEW

The Successful Succession

How to manage the process of picking a president

By WILLIAM G. BOWEN

Everyone agrees in the abstract that the number one responsibility of a governing board is to identify and recruit an excellent president when the time is at hand. Yet an astonishing number of institutions have no succession-planning process in place, and trustees themselves...

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