Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board.

人们期望外部董事成为公司董事会中能提供帮助、却较少怀有偏见的顾问。

Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

希望在困难时期留住其外部董事的公司，也许得创造出激励措施。

Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000 — a year later, she became president of Brown University.

2000 年 1 月，Ruth Simmons 以外部董事的身份加入了高盛公司的董事会，一年之后，她出任布朗大学校长。

If the sky and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.

若是出现天崩地裂、股价下跌的情况，外部董事应当能够在曾经渡过自身危机的基础上提出建议。