Baker Foundation Professor

Harvard Business School

Lynn Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. As a member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior Associate Dean for International Development, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and chair of the School’s required course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, which she co-founded. She currently teaches Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors in the MBA program and co-chairs the School’s executive programs on corporate governance, including Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Women on Boards, Preparing to Be a Corporate Director, and Advanced Corporate Director Seminar.

Lynn is a member of the International Advisory Council for the Brazilian business school Fundação Dom Cambral, and a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. She is a recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award from The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education for her innovative course development, and the Rendanheyi Badge Lifetime Achievement Award (China) for her research and contributions to management theory and practice.

Lynn holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and a law degree from the Harvard Law School.

Insight Expertise Summary

Corporate Governance; Boards of Directors; Corporate Risk Management; Cultivating Trust; Defining Corporate Purpose; Corporate Culture; Governance Mechanisms; Governing Disruption

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