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All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.  \nThis paper can be downloaded without charge from:  \n[https://www.ecgi.global/publications/working-papers](https://www.ecgi.global/publications/working-papers)  \nECGI Working Paper Series in Law  \n\n| Board Overload |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Working Paper N° 911/2026 September 2026 | Asaf Eckstein Roy Shapira Ariel Shillo |\n\n© Asaf Eckstein, Roy Shapira and Ariel Shillo 2026. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.  \nThe board of directors plays a critical role in steering corporate behavior. Over the past two decades, regulators have increasingly required boards to oversee compliance on issues ranging from cybersecurity and anti-money laundering to climate risk. In isolation, each board-involvement mandate makes sense, as it is intended to elevate a first-order issue to the highest levels of governance and ensure firm-wide buy-in. But taken together, these mandates create a problem of board overload. A typical board has ten members and meets eight times a year. Directors'time and attention are finite, as is space on the meeting agenda. As a result, there is a growing asymmetry between boards' expanded responsibilities and the structural limits on their capacity. Boards must constantly triage competing demands, often without clear guidance on how to prioritize. Understanding how boards make these choices, and which issues fall through the cracks, is one of the most urgent questions in corporate governance, with implications for both long-term corporate success and broader societal outcomes. This Article offers a comprehensive analysis of board overload and makes the following three contributions. First, the Article examines the causes of board overload. Drawing on original data on board and committee meetings, a systematic analysis of regulatory board-involvement mandates, and practitioner surveys, we show that while directors' responsibilities have expanded dramatically, board size and meeting frequency have remained relatively fixed. Second, the Article evaluates the consequences of board overload. By interviewing board members and borrowing insights from decision-making literature, we identify two key effects. At the individual director level, overload leads to information fatigue, whereby even diligent and capable directors resort to heuristics and lose motivation to invest in learning unfamiliar issues. At the group level, overload distorts agenda-setting, causing boards to underinvest in long-term strategy and systemic risk oversight. Finally, the Article offers concrete policy solutions. For regulators, our central proposal is to consider rolling back  \nboard-involvement mandates. Regulators should focus on telling companies how to behave, rather than specifying who within the company should do what. Courts, for their part, should account for board overload by setting high materiality thresholds whenrights ierpctrising oversight duties and by liberally interpreting shareholder inspection  \nAsaf Eckstein  \nHebrew University  \nRoy Shapira  \nReichman University and ECGI  \nAriel Shillo  \nHebrew University  \nBOARD OVERLOAD  \nASAF ECKSTEIN,* ROY SHAPIRA** & ARIEL SHILLO***  \nABSTRACT  \nThe board of directors plays a critical role in steering corporate behavior. Over the past two decades, regulators have increasingly required boards to oversee compliance on issues ranging from cybersecurity and anti-money laundering to climate risk. In isolation, each board-involvement mandate m","cbCaiq2ILSFJahvB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq2ILSFJahvB","pdf",1038233,69,"English","# Introduction\n## Causes of Board Overload\n## Consequences of Board Overload\n## Policy Solutions","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the paper describe as “board overload”?\",\"answer\":\"Board overload arises when many regulatory board-involvement mandates expand directors’ responsibilities faster than structural capacity, such as finite time, attention, and agenda space.\"},{\"question\":\"How does board overload affect individual directors, according to the paper?\",\"answer\":\"It can lead to information fatigue, where even diligent directors rely on heuristics and lose motivation to learn unfamiliar issues.\"},{\"question\":\"What policy solutions does the paper propose?\",\"answer\":\"The paper proposes that regulators consider rolling back board-involvement mandates and focus on specifying desired company behavior rather than internal allocation of duties, while courts should apply higher materiality thresholds and interpret shareholder inspection rules liberally.\"}]","Board Overload - Working Paper N° 911 - September 2026 | PDF",1789979972,174]