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Jan W. Rivkin

 
Jan W. Rivkin
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C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program
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Jan Rivkin is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research, course development, and teaching efforts examine the interactions across functional and product boundaries within a firm-that is, the connections that link marketing, production, logistics, finance, human resource management, and other parts of a firm. His work analyzes, first, how such interactions constrain managerial behavior and, second, how managers use cognitive devices and organizational design to cope with decisions whose ramifications span boundaries.

Rivkin currently teaches the course he developed, Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise. This elective course aims to improve students’ ability to integrate across the parts of the companies they will manage. Until recently, Rivkin taught and led the core strategy course in the first year of the MBA Program.

Rivkin received his PhD in business economics from Harvard. Earlier, he studied chemical engineering and public policy at Princeton and obtained an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics on a Marshall Scholarship.

“The bleak picture facing middle- and working-class Americans is the canary in our coal mine.”
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