How boards can be better-a manifesto

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Schrage, Michael ^a   Thomas, Robert J ^c   Bellin, Joshua B ^a   Marcotte, George ^b  

^a ACCENTURE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIT's Sloan School of Management ^*

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5. For example, extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) promises to automate the "processing of business information by computer software, cutting out laborious and costly processes of manual reentry and comparison"; see XBRL International's Web site at http://www.xbrl.org.
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