Profile

Harry Korine

Harry Korine teaches Corporate Governance at the London Business School and the Hochschule St. Gallen and Global Strategy at INSEAD in Singapore.  As a professor and independent consultant, he engages with owners, board members, and executives to address questions of leadership and value generation.  Areas of particular expertise include board structuring, succession planning, shareholder advice, strategy development, and partnership management.  His governance experience covers family businesses, as well as listed companies, cooperatives, and not for profit organizations; strategy projects have focused on health care, consumer goods, information and communications technology, and general engineering.  In addition to his academic positions and consulting engagements, Harry has served as a Director on the boards of an asset management company and an internet start-up and worked as an associate at JP Morgan.

Harry Korine’s writing has been published widely and includes articles in the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, case studies on companies such as Bombardier, Fresenius, Renault, and Takeda, as well as a number of books on governance and strategy: “The Leap to Globalization” (Jossey-Bass, 2002) “Entrepreneurs and Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2008), “Strong Managers, Strong Owners” (Cambridge University Press, 2014), “Succession for Change in Family and Founder-led Businesses” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and “Preventing Corporate Governance Failure” (Haupt, 2020).  His newest, “Leading the Family Business through Succession” (Kogan Page, 2024) is due out in October.