Breaking Views columnists discuss the idea of a “contrarian director” by Cambridge MBA student Siobhan Sweeney. In the winning paper in the 2015 Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize at the Centre for Risk Studies, Siobhan says that public companies should appoint a Contrarian Director who systematically challenges management recommendations to the board and suggests a range of alternative outcomes.
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