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Robert Stobaugh

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Robert StobaughProfessor Stobaugh is Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. He has written extensively on corporate governance, which includes the activities of a company’s board of directors and its top officers as well as parent-subsidiary relationships. He also consults and provides expert testimony. A federal judge referred to him as “…one of the nation’s foremost experts in corporate governance.”

A faculty member at Harvard Business School for 29 years, he taught in the executive, MBA, and doctoral programs and served as chairman of the doctoral programs. His teaching dealt with problems faced by corporate directors and executives. He received the School’s highest honor—its Distinguished Service Award.

He is a director of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), a non-profit organization that helps directors improve the functioning of their boards. As a member of the NACD faculty, he teaches seminars for directors.

He has authored, co-authored, or edited eighteen books and monographs. His publications have been reported on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times

—Courtesy of Harvard Business School

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Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School edited by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin.

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