Hopefully nothing serious happened that made the 3 board members resign at the same time. Could be they had little "muscle" to play with, with the chairman being the ceo, and perhaps not willing to listen to the directors' guidance.
The chairman of the board is the power figure, that sets the agenda, so the board members should have stayed till next year.....unless they found that they could not support the actions of the executives under any circumstances.
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