COURSE
NUMBER: MBA292B.11
This course is cross-listed with EWMBA
COURSE
TITLE: Nonprofit Boards and Governance
UNITS
OF CREDIT: 1
INSTRUCTOR:
Paul Jansen
E-MAIL
ADDRESS: paul_jansen@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: Sunday, 9AM – 5PM
Please
note the unorthodox format of this course, which meets all day on two Sundays (3/17 & 4/7). You must attend both sessions in their entirety in order to earn a passing
grade.
PREREQUISITE(S):
None
CLASS
FORMAT: Lecture, discussion, guest speakers from local nonprofits
REQUIRED
READINGS: Primarily published articles
BASIS
FOR FINAL GRADE: 50% participation, 50% project
ABSTRACT
OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: This one-unit course is designed to provide
students with a working knowledge of the role of boards of directors in the
nonprofit sector. Specifically, the course will explore the following aspects
of boards:
Students
will have the opportunity to meet members of the Bay Area nonprofit sector,
including current board members, chief executives, and development directors,
to discuss their roles and learn firsthand the challenges facing these
different groups in an increasingly competitive nonprofit marketplace. The
course is recommended for students wishing to learn about the nonprofit sector
and who will likely be called upon to serve in a board capacity or lead a
nonprofit during their successful business careers.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH: Paul Jansen is an adjunct professor at Haas. Paul spent 25 years as a
consultant at McKinsey & Company before retiring in 2009. In 2001, he
co-founded the Firm’s global Social Sector Practice. At various times has held
roles as leader of the global practice, knowledge leader and director of the
global philanthropy practice. In these roles, his client work focused on
strategy, organization development, and operations issues, where he gained
particular experience in global health, higher education, nonprofit governance
and public-private partnerships.
Paul
has authored a number of articles including “For Nonprofits, Time is Money”
which stimulated sector-wide discussion on the strategic benefit of increasing
endowment payout rates. With former Senator Bill Bradley wrote an article for
the Harvard Business Review, entitled “The Non-Profit Sector’s $100 Billion
Opportunity”, which again challenged sector beliefs about the potential for
improved performance. Paul has also co-authored a report entitled “The
Dynamic Board: Lessons from High-Performing Nonprofits”, which examines
board governance issues unique to the nonprofit community. Most recently Paul
led a joint effort with a group of higher education leaders to look at the
structure, conduct and performance of the US higher education sector resulting
a series of articles including Dynamics of the US Higher Education Sector,
American Higher Education: Trends and Risks, and Through –Cycle
Planning and Management in Higher Education. Paul also co-authored a report
released in 2009 on philanthropic prizes “And the Winner is…Capturing the
Promise of Philanthropic Prizes”
Paul
received a chemical engineering degree from the University of California at
Berkeley and earned his MBA at the Harvard Business School. His volunteer work
includes serving on the Board of CARE USA, which is committed to reducing
poverty worldwide and the SCE Fund. He currently chairs the Nominating and
Governance Committee at CARE. He also serves on advisory boards for Inside
Track, an organization that seeks to improve college retention, Imagine H20,
which seeks to impact water issues, Strive for College, which strives to
increase college attendance by high risk students, and Norcob
Capital, a private equity firm. Paul also spent 15 years serving on the board
of the San Francisco Zoological Society, including 4 years as chairman on the
board.