Martin Hilb

Dr. Martin Hilb is Professor of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, where is also the Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and HRM and its Center for Corporate Governance.

Martin Hilb has conducted research at the UBC in Vancouver/Canada, and the MGSM in Sydney/Australia. He has taught at the University of Dallas/Texas, the Singapore Management University, and the EIASM in Brussels/Belgium.

He gained work experience with Nestle SA in Switzerland, Martin & Co in Germany, and Schering-Plough Corporation USA, ultimately in the role of Director of Essex Chemie AG.

Martin Hilb has consulted in the field of Board and HR Management in more than 50 countries.

Icelandic boards focus on strategy!
08/02/2008

Limited research has been done on the strategic role of the board, or rather the strategic tasks that the board performs. In a recent study the question of boards focus on strategy was tested using a 14-item scale developed by Kanji and Sá (2001) and based on planning school concepts...

Boards should have value!
10/12/2007

Let us assume that boards can be valuable for the organisation. That is the claim of most corporate governance theories, although they have different emphasis. This implies that boards can have other roles than rubber-stamping managerial decisions. The board meeting is simply not another word for the meeting of the...