Publications

03 Sep 2015
News

Why Boards Must Look Beyond Shareholders

December 2010
Article

The Case for Professional Boards

By: Robert C. Pozen

When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States

Video

New Board Page on Alumni Site

2003
Other Unpublished Work

Limits to Board Effectiveness

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards

February 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Board of Directors: Membership

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards

2001
Article

Building a Better Board

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Duke K. Bristow, Paul D. Lapides, Chuck King and T.K. Kerstetter

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards

May 2014 (Revised January 2015)
Case

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

By: Julie Battilana and Michael Norris

In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on as chairman of the board, Jean Rogers, founder and CEO struggles with how best to ensure the nonprofit's financial sustainability while... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Accounting; Accounting Industry; United States

Program

Value Creation Through Effective Boards

Summary The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate View Details

30 Dec 2010
News

A New Model for Corporate Boards

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make sure the fox isn't hired to run the hen house? Doesn't the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
Background Note

Beer Game, The: Board Version

By: Janice H. Hammond

The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Distribution Channels; Production; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges

June 2011
Case

Changes to Harvard University's Governing Board

By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin

This case examines the decision made by the governing board of Harvard University, known as the Harvard Corporation, to alter its size and operations. The case provides background on Harvard's history, its existing governance structure, and some of the issues that... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Decisions; Education Industry

12 Nov 2014
News

How to Make Corporate Boards More Effective

22 Feb 2017
News

Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

March 1992
Case

Allegheny International Board (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Feb 01 2017
Testimonial

Examining Differences Among Boards

January 2013 (Revised July 2014)
Supplement

Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

This follow up to Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards provides a one-page description of the new boards that were created at Telecom and Chorus. View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards