COURSE NUMBER:
MBA292B.11
This course
is dual-listed with the Evening-Weekend MBA Program.
COURSE TITLE: Nonprofit
Boards and Governance
UNITS OF CREDIT:
1
INSTRUCTOR:
Paul Jansen
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
paul55jansen@gmail.com
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Sunday,
11 February and 11 March from 9am to 5 pm
Please note the unusual format of this
course, which meets all day on two Sundays. You must attend both
sessions in their entirety in order to earn a passing grade.
PREREQUISITE(S): None
CLASS FORMAT:
Lecture, discussion, mini-cases and case studies, panel discussions with
directors and CEOs from local nonprofits
REQUIRED READINGS:
Primarily published articles, BoardSource governance materials, The Dynamic Nonprofit Board: Lessons
from High Performing Nonprofits
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
40% participation, 60% for 2 case write ups
CAREER FIELD:
This course is for business oriented students who imagine
they might serve on a nonprofit board(s) over the course of their career or for
students interested in managerial roles at a nonprofit organization who will
need to interact with the nonprofit’s board of directors.
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S
CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: This one-unit course
provides students with a working knowledge of the role played by boards of
directors in the nonprofit sector and prepares them to be active and informed
members of nonprofit board. My mindset is that of exposing you to all the
things I wish that I had known before I started my own nonprofit board
career. 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 and chief executives, to discuss their roles
and learn firsthand the challenges facing these different leaders in an
increasingly competitive nonprofit marketplace.
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 Nonprofit Practice, which later evolved
into the Social Sector Practice. At various times has held roles as
leader of the global nonprofit 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. Paul
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 as chair of the Board of CARE USA, which is
committed to reducing poverty worldwide and as a director of the SCE Fund, a
philanthropic foundation. 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. Paul also spent 15
years serving on the board of the San Francisco Zoological Society, including 4
years as chairman on the board. Paul recently joined the board of
directors of Zymergen, a genetic engineering services company.