According to BoD index report by Spencer&Stuart, Boards of Russian companies have 9.6 meetings a year at average. Despite this number is larger than in the US (7.9) it evidently doesn't indicate the Russian boards outperform American in case the first gather more frequently. The quality of decisions taken during the meetings should be evaluated at first. If some out of 9.6 are just formal e-mail votings based on biased choices then this number doesn't make any sense for the analyst who is looking for some board composition factors improving performance. At the same time, Russian boards have the same size as American ones (around 10.6 vs 10.7 members) despite Austrian or German boards can have half more members but include two tiers and different committees structure. If you were hired by the CFO of a Russian company as the management consultant (from Big 3), what could you propose to include in the agenda of the upcoming meeting List all possible topics which can be relevant in the front of potential acquisition of competing company