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What Women Bring to Norway’s Boards

BY Kate Sweetman | 07-30-2009 | 11:53 AM

This article is written by a member of our expert contributor community.

Norway's experiment with boosting the number of women on boards has revealed some lessons we all can learn.

I have been blogging since July 1 on the Norwegian experiment: requiring boards to have at least 40% of each gender on its boards. It’s been two years: what’s the result? For the Lessons Learned, please go to my blog on Harvard’s website in which they requested I comment on that very thing:

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hbr-now/2009/07/how-women-have-changed-norways.html)

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