A board's road to transformation.(Tower Automotive Inc.)(Brief Article)

Directors & Boards | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

How one board matched itself up against the critical success factors for effective governance.

TOWER AUTOMOTIVE INC., a leading manufacturer of structural stampings, assemblies, and modules for the automotive industry, grew from $83 million in revenue in 1993 to nearly $2.5 billion in 1999. It went public in 1994, and although the board functioned effectively, it recognized that it needed to strengthen a number of its processes to fully exercise the fiduciary responsibility it now faced as the board of a large, highly visible public company.

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