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Fortune
Jane Sadowsky

Boards were built for a vertical world. Risk has gone horizontal

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Corporate governance is being stress-tested, not at the margins, but at the level of its underlying architecture.

The modern board model was shaped in the industrial era, when companies were hierarchical, risks were more contained, and change moved more slowly. Governance followed that structure: information flowed up through management, and oversight flowed down from the board.

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