Ms. Chua is a professor at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and the mother of two daughters.

Maybe you should be offering the wisdom. Perhaps our roles could be reversed and I could, in Harvard Law School style, do cold calls for the next hour or so.

'Compensation played a role in the financial crisis, and yet nothing has changed,' says J. Robert Brown, a professor at University of Denver's law school and an expert on corporate governance.