Her research interests are company ethical and financial leadership and corporate governance, focusing on how companies can maintain high ethical standards while achieving outstanding financial results.
Paine's latest book is Capitalism at Risk, Updated and Expanded: How Business Can Lead (HBR Press, 2020), with HBS colleagues Joe Bower and Dutch Leonard.
Her text and casebook Cases in Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational Integrity: A Strategic Perspective came out in 1996.
Do They Mean It?," “The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership,” and “Sustainability in the Boardroom" — all published in the Harvard Business Review.
Former chair of the General Management unit at HBS, Paine has served as Senior Associate Dean for International Development, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and chair of the School’s required course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, which she co-founded.