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1100 Colleges and the Republic's March to Madness

Center for Higher Education Leadership

May 7, 2019

 

A basketball story about how antitrust laws alone cannot save markets and society from the harms of business models built on exploitation.

 

"Leave Your Preconceived Notions...at the Door"

Diversity's Role in Boardroom Leadership

Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog on

Corporations & the Capital Markets

April 19, 2019

Co-authored with Joseph Mandato,

Managing Director, De Novo Ventures

 

Conversations with accomplished tech industry directors, CEOs, investors, and founders illuminate how embracing diversity upgrades a board's ability to lead.

 

"Let's Fire This Guy and Get on with Business"

Practical Lessons in Boardroom Leadership

Harvard Law School Forum on

Corporate Govenance & Financial Regulation

February 16, 2019

Co-authored with Joseph Mandato,

Managing Director, De Novo Ventures

 
 

How do you build a powerful boardroom culture?  Conversations with accomplished tech industry directors, CEOs, investors, and founders illuminate attitudes, values, practices and goals that can help lead an organization maximize its potential and meet its leadership responsibilities.

 

A Cautionary Tale for Tokens

FinTech Weekly

January 19, 2018

As the digital asset community tries to project how the world’s governments and agencies will ultimately regulate the cascade of coins and tokens now being blockchained into existence, we could use a good anecdote. Do we have one? In fact we do.

 

A Post-Regulatory Recipe for Economic Leadership

Inside Compliance | Loyola University Chicago School of Law

September 19, 2017

At a time when many corporate leaders focus on the perils of overregulation, the greatest regulatory risk an enterprise confronts may not be high compliance hurdles, but rather the possibility that regulators can’t keep the economy functioning well enough for the enterprise to do its most commercially inventive and societally valued work.

 

Once Upon a Time, In America

California Lawyer

March 2003

Does the future of civilization hinge on America? Observations on intelligence and Jacob Needleman's new book, The American Soul (Tarcher, 2003).

 

Lessons from a Board that Lost Its Way

Corporate Law:  Corporate Governance eJournal, V6, I59 

July 18, 2014

Fiduciary duties miscalculated.  Epic opportunities forfeited.  A corporate governance view of the Penn State Board's performance under the pressure of the Sandusky scandal.

 

Women Don’t Need to Jump

San Francisco Chronicle

July 31, 1998

The siren song of semi-pointless competition.

 

Women, Men & Money
Random House, 1998
274 Pages  | 
Hard cover & paperback

A book ahead of its time, whose time has come.  It explores the flaws in our culture’s so-called investment wisdom that, to negotiate the 21st century economy, we must evolve beyond.  Also:  the paradox of investing in yourself and those you love, and the pay-off on talent.

 

 

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ON UNIVERSITY REVENUE SPORTS LAW & LEADERSHIP

 

 

QB Reminds Higher Ed of Regulatory Truth

Inside Compliance | Loyola University Chicago School of Law

October 3, 2017

A twenty-year-old—not a university trustee or president, not a U. S. District Court judge or an antitrust lawyer—puts his finger on a regulatory reality that higher education may not be able to ignore for much longer.

 

The Cost of a College Touchdown:  A Story of Trustee Miscalculation

Smashwords, eBook 

2014

The Penn State board grapples with risk, conflict, compliance and societal expectation when the Sandusky scandal collides with football.

 

Unchain Those College Ballplayers

Los Angeles Times 

January 15, 2002

The rush to declare a national holiday because there’s a new million-dollar coach.

 

Revenue Sport Fever 

University of Houston Law Center, Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance Monograph Series

February 2014

A view of the to-pay-or-not-to-pay debate in college revenue sports, through a corporate governance prism. 

 

Last Lesson from Carpetbagging Coach

Inside Higher Ed

January 10, 2014

The abbreviated tenure of William O’Brien as coach at Penn State.

 

The Peril in College Sports’ Gilded Age

San Francisco Chronicle

June 10, 2014

Do university trustees miscalculate the impact of revenue sports on both higher education and the economy?

 

Sympathy for the Fall Guy:  Mark Emmert, Higher Education’s Expendable Man

Education Law eJournal

August 2014

Perhaps Mark Emmert once thought his job was to police the line between alumni who shake hands with the quarterback and alumni who palm the quarterback a Benjamin. Perhaps he now realizes his job, more and more, is to answer for the growing disconnect—much of which is rooted in economics—between American universities and their missions.

 

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