Profile

Donald Nordberg is a writer, strategist and consultant.

He has published The BoardAgenda, a newsletter and online research tool for corporate directors and their advisers, since 1999. He is also Senior Lecturer in Strategy at London Metropolitan Business School and Honorary Visiting Professor at City University, where he teaches financial journalism.

During nearly 20 years at Reuters in Europe and the United States, he served in a variety of senior editorial and marketing roles. Don was Vice President, Reuters America, responsible for financial news marketing and development of a financial television service.

As News Editor for the Western hemisphere, he supervised 350 journalists in 40 offices. He was Financial Editor Europe, Middle East and Africa, a role which included product management as well as editorial responsibilities. A fluent German speaker, he was bureau chief in Frankfurt and chief correspondent in Switzerland.

Furtherbackground

Academic

London Business School: Studied application of systems dynamics to business strategy.

MBA, with Distinction, from Warwick University. Dissertation on strategic marketing of business information.

MA in English from the University of Illinois. BA with High Honors and Distinction in English from the University of Illinois, elected member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi national honor societies.

Memberships and associations

Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute

Senior Adviser to The Conference Board Europe on corporate governance and risk management

Member of the Centre for International Business and Sustainability at LondonMet. Associate member of the Corporate Governance Research Forum at Cass Business School

Selected publications

Nordberg, D. (2008) "Waste makes haste: Sarbanes-Oxley, competitiveness and the subprime crisis," Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 365-383

Nordberg, D. (2008) "Designing Business Curricula: An Iterative, Processual Module for Higher Education," accepted at International Journal of Management Education, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 81-85

Nordberg, D. (2008) "The ethics of corporate governance," Journal of General Management, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 35-52

Nordberg, D. (2008) "Some are more equal: The politics of shareholder activism," a working paper at Social Sciences Research Network

Nordberg, D. (2008) "Group projects: More learning? Less fair? A conundrum in assessing postgraduate higher education," Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 481-492

Nordberg, D. (2007) "Rebalancing the board's agenda," Journal of General Management, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 13-23

Nordberg, D. (2007) "News and corporate governance: What Dow Jones and Reuters teach us about stewardship," Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Vol. 8, No. 6. pp. 718-735; reissued as a "Private Sector Opinion" monograph by the Global Corporate Governance Forum of the World Bank Group, February 2008

Nordberg, D. (2007) "Knowledge Creation: Revisiting the 'Ba' Humbug: People and 'Latent' Knowledge in Organizational Learning," Icfai Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 7-16

Nordberg, D. (2007) "Fairness in assessing group projects: A conceptual framework for higher education," International Journal of Quality and Standards, Vol. 1, No. 2, article 15

Nordberg, D. (2006) "Designing relevance into business curricula: A processual module for higher education," Investigations in University Teaching and Learning, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 17-23

Nordberg, D. (2001) "Communicating Intangible Value," Journal of General Management, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer, pp. 28-46

For working papers, see Social Sciences Research Network: http://ssrn.com/author=475919

Books

Nordberg, D. (1998) Online Investor Relations: How technology is reshaping shareholder communications, London: Net Profit Publications

Reviews

2008 Reviewer for Corporate Governance: An International Review

2008 Reviewer of completed book on corporate governance for Oxford University Press

2007 Reviewer for Oxford University Press of book proposal on corporate governance

2007 Reviewer for Oxford University Press of books on strategic management

2007 Reviewer for Oxford University Press of proposed new business marketing textbook

2007 Reviewer for Pearson Education: Mintzberg et al., The Strategy Process; Lynch, Corporate Strategy and other strategy textbooks

2006-07 Reviewer of various articles for the European Journal of Marketing

2006 Reviewer for Oxford University Press; comparative review of textbooks on business marketing

2006 Reviewer for Butterworth-Heinemann (Reed-Elsevier) of book proposal about brand metrics