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Ben W. Heineman, Jr.

Ben W. Heineman, Jr. is a Senior Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance. He was GE's Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003, and then Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently also a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, and Senior Counsel to the law firm WilmerHale. A former Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His new book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June, 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law and international affairs. He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency.

In 2007, he served on the Independent Review Panel of the World Bank Group's Department of Institutional Integrity (the Volcker Panel). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Science, Technology and Law, and a recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Transparency International-USA. He recently delivered the Oliver Smithies Lectures at Oxford University on the global anticorruption agenda.

Recent corporate governance writing and materials:

Shareholders: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
The Atlatnic, October 2009.

A Budapest B-School Teaches Leadership at the Crossroads
Havard Business Review, September 2009.

Getting Your Fix
Corporate Counsel, September 2009.

Beware the Idolatry of Numbers
The Atlantic, August 2009.

Executive Compensation: Let's Look at Fund Managers' Pay, Too
Harvard Business Review, July 2009.

The Talented Mr. Blankfein
Washington Post Blog, July 2009.

Harvard Business Review Debates, June 2009:

We've Lost Authenticity
Washington Post, June 2009.

Going Beyond MBA Oaths
Harvard Business Review, June 2009.

Stop Bribery Everywhere
Corporate Counsel, June 2009.

The Long Goodbye
Washington Post Blog, May 2009.

Function, Not Form, Matters Most in Board's Nonexecutive Leader
Harvard Business Review, May 2009.

SARS Corporate Playbook
Washington Post Blog, April 2009.

Redefining the CEO Role
BusinessWeek, April 2009.

G20 Fails to Take on Global Bribery
Harvard Business Review, April 2009.

It's About Accountability, Stupid
Washington Post, March 2009.

Pitchfork Populism
Washington Post, March 2009.

Dangerous Obfuscation of Facts
Washington Post, March 2009.

Google's Bad Options
Harvard Business Review, March 2009.

Personnel Management: Who Goofed, Obama or Gregg?
Harvard Business Review, February 2009.

Executive Compensation: The Leadership Failure that Led to Pay Caps
Harvard Business Review, February 2009.

Executive Compensation: What Obama’s Plan Means
Business Week, February 2009.

Is Google Doing the Right Thing?
Financial Times, February 2009.

A Tale of Two Cities
Washington Post, February 2009.

Boards Fail — Again
BusinessWeek, September 2008.

The Fatal Flaw in Pay for Performance
Harvard Business Review, June 2008.

Former Top GE Lawyer Heineman Discusses New Book on Integrity
Bloomberg, June 2008.

Risk-Taking, Discipline &151; and Regulation
BusinessWeek, May 2008.

Safety First Abroad
Forbes, May 2008.

Arrested Development
The National Interest, November/December 2007.

Financial Leaders Go AWOL in the Meltdown
Bloomberg, November 2007.

Caught in the Middle
Corporate Counsel, April 2007.

Avoiding Integrity Land Mines
Harvard Business Review, April 2007.

Hands Across the Water
Corporate Counsel, October 2006.

The Long War Against Corruption
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006.

In the Beginning
Corporate Counsel, April 2006.

Bigger Isn&146;t Better
Corporate Counsel, November 2005.