# Prof. David Yermack on the connection between a company's success and the size of its board of directors

1 Faculty News August 26, 2014 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/articles/smaller-boards-get-bigger-returns-1409078628) -- "Small boards are more likely to dismiss CEOs for poor performance—a threat that declines significantly as boards grow in numbers, said [David Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), a finance professor at New York University's business school who has studied the issue."

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