by Jay Lorsch - Publications - Faculty & Research

Awards

National Association of Corporate Directors. Directorship Corporate Governance Hall of Fame

Jay W. Lorsch was elected to Directorship magazine's Corporate Governance Hall of Fame in 2009. Hall of Fame members are a select number of exemplary individuals who have so uniquely contributed to the shape of modern corporate governance that they deserve special... View Details

11 Jul 2012
News

The Future of Boards

03 Oct 2010
News

Echoes of Bell in CEO pay

11 Apr 2012
News

How To Handle an Activist Investor

07 Feb 2017
News

This activist group is trying to oust Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook’s chairman

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

27 Mar 2013
News

Wells Fargo Investment Unit Paid Board Member’s Son $1.4 Million

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

Article

Participation in a Voluntary Bundled Payment Program by Organizations Providing Care After an Acute Hospitalization

By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Lena M. Chen

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18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

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 by Kazuo Ichijo and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2020
Article

Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration with Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates

By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate Apathy

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy solution to the opioid epidemic in the US. PDMPs offer prescribers a comprehensive view of patients’ controlled substance prescription history and can be used to monitor and reduce... View Details

Keywords: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs; PDMPs; Electronic Health Records; Hospitals; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Integration; Performance Evaluation

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01 Jan 2005
News

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

05 Nov 2009
News

Directorship Magazine Awards

08 May 2013
News

Next Wal-Mart CEO Faces Challenges Sam Walton Never Saw

12 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

the UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Service Management in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. “When we are feeling bad, one way we cope is by comparing ourselves to people who are worse off than we are.” Perhaps nowhere... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

beyond a few photos on the course website, but several gadget aficionado blogs found the photos and linked to them. The buzz went viral, eventually garnering Clocky a photo on the front page of the L.A. Times, a mention in Jay Leno's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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