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Corporate Governance Assessment Report
by Professor Jay W. Lorsch
Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations
Chairman Global Corporate Governance Initiative
Harvard Business School

Jay W. Lorsch is Chairman of the Global Corporate Governance Initiative and the Louis Kirstein
Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of over a dozen
books on business and corporate governance, including most recently ‘Back to the Drawing
Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World’ (with Colin B. Carter, 2003) and ‘Organization
and Environment’ (with Paul R. Lawrence) which won the Academy of Management’s Best
Management Book of the Year Award. He has also been published countless times in U.S. and
European media as an expert on global corporate governance.
Professor Lorsch has over 25 years of experience serving on the boards of public companies
on both sides of the Atlantic, and advising boards of directors on corporate governance best
practices.
He is currently Chairman of the Harvard Business School Global Corporate Governance
Initiative and Faculty Chairman of the Executive Education Corporate Governance Series.
As a consultant, he has had as clients such diverse companies as Applied Materials, Berkshire
Partners, Biogen Idec, Citicorp, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, Deloitte Touche, DLA
Piper Rudnick, Goldman Sachs, Kellwood Company, MassMutual Financial Group, Tyco
International, Shire Pharmaceuticals and Sullivan & Cromwell LLC. He is a Director of Computer
Associates International, Inc. and a member of The Antioch Review National Advisory Board.
He formerly served on the boards of Benckiser (now Reckitt Benckiser), Blasland Bouck & Lee

Inc., Brunswick Corporation and Sandy Corporation; he also served on the Advisory Board of
U.S. Foodservice.
He is a graduate of Antioch College (1955) with a M.S. degree in Business from Columbia
University (1956) and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (1964).
At Columbia, he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow in Democratic Business Administration. From
1956-59, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Finance Corp.