With the assistance of the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust, Bentley University is building upon its record of innovation and excellence by creating the Harold S. Geneen Doctoral Fellowships. Geneen Fellows will pursue directed, leading-edge research on important corporate governance issues through the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, a consortium of faculty and PhD students dedicated to researching social, comparative and reformative approaches to governance.
The institute has made offers to four PhD fellows in 2009 and 2011. Please check here for any upcoming fellowship opportunities.
The 2011 fellowships were offered in the following broad areas of corporate governance:
- Ethics and corporate boards
- Regulation and compliance
- Social and environmental reporting
- Corporate social responsibility
- Executive compensation
- Corporate governance and women in leadership positions
We define corporate governance according to a broadly accepted definition embracing the rights and responsibilities among all parties who have a stake in the firm. In doing so, our faculty and doctoral students will focus on the ways in which policies, processes and people are used to fulfill these rights and responsibilities. At the Harold S. Geneen Institute, we believe that the center of corporate governance should focus on promoting integrity and accountability within and across organizations from a financial, environmental and social vantage point.
The Geneen Doctoral Fellows will conduct quantitative and qualitative research that focuses on understanding what can foster good corporate governance, examining this at multiple levels, from individuals through organizations to institutions and regulations.
They will also consider what the short- and long-term impact of good governance is on individual businesses and societies, both local and global. The results of the research will be prepared for both academic and practitioner audiences through symposia sponsored by the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance at Bentley.
The ultimate goal of the Geneen Doctoral Fellowship is to create a bridge between academic research and practical application. In this way, the fellows will look objectively at a variety of issues related to corporate governance, many of which will have direct impact on business and the broader stakeholder and stockholder environments.
For more information, please contact Dr. Cynthia Clark, Director of the Geneen Institute, cclark@bentley.edu.