General Management
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- June 19, 2025
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense
By: Arthur C. Brooks- June 19, 2025
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense
By: Arthur C. Brooks -
- 2025
- Chapter
Critical Choices in Designing a Board: An Overview
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lynn S. PaineBoard design is never one-size-fits-all. It’s a series of critical choices—each with trade-offs—that can define how a board functions, governs, and delivers strategic value. That’s the premise of "Critical Choices in Designing a Board," a chapter for the newly released Public Company Series: Board Structure and Composition, a manual of corporate governance published by the NYSE and J.P. Morgan. In our chapter, we outline six key decisions every board must address: What is the board’s purpose? Who should serve on it? How should the board be structured? How to clearly define roles and responsibilities? Which processes help the board function most effectively? What norms foster the right dynamics and culture? We draw on research, boardroom case studies, and our experience at teaching board governance programs at Harvard Business School to offer a practical framework for designing a board. The full volume brings together insights from legal advisors, investors, and governance experts and covers topics ranging from board refreshment and audit committees to shareholder activism, cybersecurity, and global governance trends.
- 2025
- Chapter
Critical Choices in Designing a Board: An Overview
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lynn S. PaineBoard design is never one-size-fits-all. It’s a series of critical choices—each with trade-offs—that can define how a board functions, governs, and delivers strategic value. That’s the premise of "Critical Choices in Designing a Board," a chapter for the newly released Public Company Series: Board Structure and Composition, a manual of corporate...
About the Unit
The General Management Unit is concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses:
- the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders;
- the philosophies, values, and strategies that inform successful enterprises; and
- the relation of enterprise to the broader community and other external constituencies.
The Unit's work is conceived and carried out principally in four interest groups, each of which has its own leadership, research agenda, and teaching programs:
- Management Policy and Process
- Management Information Systems
- Society and Enterprise
- Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility
Recent Publications
Does Marriage Have a Future?
- Summer 2025 |
- Article |
- The New Atlantis
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight Loss Drugs
- June 2025 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense
- June 19, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
How to Build a Life: Dare to Act Differently and Be Happier
- June 12, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
How to Build a Life: Why Wittgenstein Was Right About Silence
- June 5, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context
- 3 Jun 2025 |
- Talk |
- Faculty Research
Critical Choices in Designing a Board: An Overview
- 2025 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
How Universities Die: It Has Happened Before in Centers of Learning Such as Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston Next?
- June 1, 2025 |
- Article |
- Boston Globe
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
There are no upcoming events.