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How Costco Built a Board That Subverts Wall Street
Hosts Lucas and Luna dive into one of the most unconventional boardrooms in corporate America: Costco Wholesale. Unlike most retailers obsessed with quarterly earnings, Costco's board is stacked with long-tenured directors who actively resist analyst pressure to raise prices or slash wages. Using the 2023 proxy statement and board composition data, Lucas explains how Costco's board invests in employee retention, caps gross margins, and has a median director tenure of 15 years—nearly triple the S&P 500 average. Luna pushes back on whether this model scales or just works because of…
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