Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. She has written widely on leadership and corporate governance, focusing on how companies can meld high ethical standards with outstanding financial results. Her recent publications include Capitalism at Risk, Updated and Expanded: How Business Can Lead (Harvard Business Review Press), “Are You Leveraging the Diverse Talent on Your Board,” “Boards Can Continue to Lead the Way on Climate Governance,” “How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?”, “The Business Roundtable’s Stakeholder Pledge, Five Years Later,” “What Does ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Mean to You?,” “A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance,” and "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership," (all in Harvard Business Review). Ms. Paine co-founded the School’s required MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and has served in various senior leadership roles, most recently as Senior Associate Dean for International Development. She currently co-chairs the School’s executive programs on corporate governance, including Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Preparing to Be a Corporate Director, Women on Boards, and Advanced Corporate Director Seminar.

Ms. Paine has served as a consultant to numerous organizations, and has sat on various panels and advisory boards including The Conference Board’s Blue‐Ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise after Enron’s collapse and The Conference Board’s Task Force on Executive Compensation after the financial crisis. She was a director of RiskMetrics Group (NYSE) before it became part of MSCI, and of Atos, SE, a global digital services company (Paris:ATO). She served two terms as a public member of the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ).

A graduate of Smith College, Ms. Paine holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.