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  • August 2003
  • Case

SEC Proposal for Nomination of Directors by Shareholders

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson
Describes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2003 proposal to allow shareholders to nominate a "short slate" of directors for the board of listed companies. Includes comment letters for and against the proposal. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

  • 03 Oct 2010
  • News

Echoes of Bell in CEO pay

  • 05 Nov 2009
  • News

Directorship Magazine Awards

  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

the results. Governance Information in Knowledge-Based Companies Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Chap. 14 in Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers, edited View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

economy. There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for their part, allowed it to go unchecked.— Jay Lorsch Koehn: Board performance and the culture of organizations as factors affecting a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 17 May 2010
  • News

Eight HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society

  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 29 May 2008
  • News

Six HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society

  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

improve the lives of the estimated two billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, HBS professor Jay Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • News

Risk Officer Rises to Banks' $10 Million Post After Derivatives Meltdown

  • Spring 2013
  • Article

America's Changing Corporate Boardrooms: The Last Twenty-Five Years

By: Jay W. Lorsch
This article outlines several significant changes in corporate boardrooms over the past twenty-five years and uses those lessons to propose a thought experiment about how boards can be shaped in the future. Professor Lorsch argues that the major problems in the last... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; BEST Practices; Stakeholder Engagement; Governing and Advisory Boards; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Change
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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

staff. Looking forward, what should Modi and Wong do to ensure Phirbol's success? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510020-PDF-ENG Board Leadership at Entergy Corporation Jay W. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria. 3. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? Professor Jim Heskett... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

they conclude, "Exercising leadership is a way of giving meaning to your life by contributing to the lives of others." Jay Lorsch and Thomas Tierney focus on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

party hosted by HBS Professor Jay Lorsch and his wife for Fritz Roethlisberger in 1968 in their modest digs that one could rent in those days from Harvard University. While... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Original Article A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “Culture Is Not the Culprit,” by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague noted that “When organizations get into big trouble,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

  PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel