I Never Worked a Day in My Life

About the Book

No one knows more about corporate boards and effective governance than Bill Haeberle! This autobiography combines Bill’s wry sense of humor with sage advice garnered from fifty-seven years of experience as an entrepreneur, sixty years on the Indiana University business faculty and forty years in a multitude of board rooms. It’s must reading for every executive or anyone who serves or hopes to serve on a board of directors.

About the Author

Dr. William L. Haeberle joined the Kelley School of Business faculty in June of 1946 while on terminal leave as an army captain.  He was to become a pioneer in the field of executive education, joining the Indiana Executive Program in 1952 and serving as director from 1958 until taking Emeritus status in 1984.  He founded the entrepreneurship program at the Kelley School of Business in 1958 and continues activity as an entrepreneurship teacher.  Beginning in 1949 and until 1987 he concurrently was an owner/principal/partner in a wide variety of private business ventures.  Since 1987 he has primarily functioned as a director/advisor to a wider variety of privately owned mid-market companies.  He has participated in over 1,000 board meetings.