@article{ramses2016governing,
  title = {A Governing Board Responds to the Perils of Growth and Death: A Play-Like Narrative in Four Acts},
  author = {Sandra A. Ramses},
  year = 2016,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/MENA/2016/717233/},
  journal = {The MENA Journal of Business Case Studies},
  volume = (2015),
  pages = 14,
  doi = 10.5171/2015.717233,
  abstract = {In this case, the reader must decide how the governing board of a non-profit organization should grow its operations and respond to crisis. The case illustrates the unique traits that boards of directors often possesses, the inherent tension in upholding the values and integrity of the organization, the need for formalizing the board structure and systematizing the selection process, the need for transformational leadership during a crisis and the factors that may influence a board to employ a chief executive officer. The case is presented through a play-like narrative of four acts1. Play Notes: In a narrative in four acts the relationship between the founding director, board members and management of a nonprofit organization — New Horizons - is revealed. New Horizons was founded by Salma Dajani in 2004 as a European charity registered in Brussels. Its objective is: to protect the environment in the Arab world through learning and education and through the promotion of innovative, homegrown solutions and inventions.To serve as members of New Horizons’s governing board, Dajani recruited Clemence Vuidard, a long time friend, Chief Executive of Greenpeace-Belgium and participant on other Belgian-based non-profit boards. She also recruited another friend and successful business executive, Saad Khalifah, who is the Chief Executive of an Arab multinational and sits on more than 25 boards around the world. Finally, she identified and recruited Dr. Fadiya Ibraheem, an Egyptian environmental and developmental specialist. The case captures three years of the organization’s life. It begins in April 2004 in the New Horizons boardroom in Brussels, as members are gathering for a meeting to discuss the annual report. Act II takes place 18 months later, in October 2005 as members are gathering for a celebratory lunch meeting. Act III takes place in January 2006, in the residence of a board member. The final Act takes place in New Horizons’s board meeting room in October 2007.},
  keywords = {Board meeting, business organization, Management},
  note = Article ID: 717233
}