 Senior Distinguished Practitioner Fellow
Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mr. Heineman is a distinguished senior fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and senior fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (1967 - graduate degree/political science), and holds a law degree from Yale Law School (1971), where he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Heineman practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs.
Mr. Heineman is a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the Board of Transparency International-USA; a member of the Board of Managers and Overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center . He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency.
He is a frequent speaker and lecturer and also instructs at the Program’s Executive Education course.
JD, Yale Law School, 1971
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1967
AB, Harvard College, 1965
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The Ugly End-Game, washingtonpost.com (November 10, 2009) Read the Post
Petraeus, not Westmoreland, washingtonpost.com (November 2, 2009) Read the Post
Shareholders: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? from The Atlantic (October 28, 2009) Read the Article
In Praise of Meetings, washingtonpost.com (October 6, 2009) Read the Post
Corruption: The Afghan Wild Card, from The Atlantic (October 2, 2009) Read the Article
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Getting Your Fix: Two veteran lawyers say that now is the time for fixed fees, from Corporate Counsel (September, 2009) Read the Article
Power Outage, washingtonpost.com (August 31, 2009) Read the Post
My Quiet Neighbor (The President), The Atlantic (August 28, 2009) Read the Article
Nation-Building Dreams, washingtonpost.com (August 24, 2009) Read the Post
Beware the Idolatry of Numbers, from The Atlantic (August 11, 2009) Read the Article
The Power of a Personal Story, washingtonpost.com (August 3, 2009) Read the Post
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A Due Process Teaching Moment - Wasted, from The Atlantic (July 25, 2009) Read the Article
The Talented Mr. Blankfein, washingtonpost.com (July 20, 2009) Read the Post
Bipartisan Commission Mandate, washingtonpost.com (July 13, 2009) Read the Post
Anti-Corruption Rhetoric - and Reality, from The Atlantic (June 22, 2009) Read the Article
HBR Discussion on Executive Pay:
How to Fix Executive Pay, harvardbusiness.org (June 9, 2009) Read the Post
Good CEOs Are Underpaid, harvardbusiness.org (June 17, 2009) Read the Post
"How" Not "How Much," harvardbusiness.org (June 24, 2009) Read the Post
or read the entire discussion Here
Going Beyond MBA Oaths, HBR Now Blog (June 9, 2009) Read the Post
We've Lost Authenticity, washingtonpost.com (June 8, 2009) Read the Post
Stop Bribery Everywhere, Corporate Counsel (June, 2009) Read the Article
The Junior Justice, washingtonpost.com (May 18, 2009) Read the Post
The Long Goodbye, washingtonpost.com (May 11, 2009) Read the Post
Function, Not Form, Matters Most in Board's Non-executive Leader, harvardbusiness.org (May 5, 2009) Read the Post
How to Prevent Panic?,, washingtonpost.com (April 27, 2009) Read the Post
Redefining the CEO Role, businessweek.com (April 16, 2009) Read the Post
It's About Accountability, Stupid, washingtonpost.com (March 30, 2009) Read the Post
Pitchfork Populism, washingtonpost.com (March 22, 2009) Read the Post
AIG's Bonuses: A Dangerous Failure of Leadership, harvardbusiness.org Confersation Starter blog (March 19, 2009) Read the Post
Dangerous Obfuscation of Facts, washingtonpost.com (March 18, 2009) Read the Post
Google's Bad Options, harvardbusiness.org Conversation Starter blog (March 10, 2009) Read the Post
Executive Compensation: What Obama's Plan Means, Business Week (February 7, 2009) Read the Article
Is Google doing the right thing?, FT.com [Financial Times] (February 3, 2009) Read the Article
A Tale of Two Cities, washingtonpost.com (February 2, 2009) Read the Post
Principles for Reforming Executive Pay, Businessweek
(January 6, 2009) Read the Article
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