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- January 1994
- HBS Case Collection
ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation
By: D. Quinn Mills, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson and Richard C. Wei
Abstract
In the midst of dramatic changes in the information systems industry and declining profits at the ABC Co., the vice president in charge of the sales and service division, Jeff, and his managers attempt to transform their division. The transformation gets off to a good start but soon runs into problems as the managers are forced to lay off employees and to cancel a conference intended to move the transformation forward. Jeff wonders what he should do next as some members of his management team resign and morale is low.
Keywords
Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Motivation and Incentives; Resignation and Termination; Communication; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry
Citation
Mills, D. Quinn, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson, and Richard C. Wei. "ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 494-075, January 1994.
Supplemental Information
Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School and the Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Professor Abdelal's primary expertise is international political economy, and his research focuses on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia. Abdelal's first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, won the 2002 Shulman Prize as the outstanding book on the international relations of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. His second book, Capital Rules, explains the evolution of the social norms and legal rules of the international financial system. Abdelal has also edited or co-edited three books: The Rules of Globalization, a collection of Harvard Business School cases on international business; Measuring Identity; and Constructing the International Economy. Abdelal is currently at work on two projects. In one, The Fragile State of the World, Abdelal narrates the inter-related challenges that threaten to destroy the current system of global capitalism. In The Profits of Power, the second project, Abdelal explores the geopolitics of energy in Europe and Eurasia--and how those politics created but later undermined the Russian-European energy relationship. In 1999 Abdelal earned a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, where he had received an M.A. in 1997. At Cornell Abdelal's dissertation won the Kahin Prize in International Relations and the Esman Prize. He was a President's Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with highest honors in Economics in 1993. Recent honors include Harvard Business School's Greenhill Award, Apgar Award for innovation in teaching, and Williams Award for excellence in teaching, as well as, on several occasions, the Student Association's Faculty Award for outstanding teaching. September 2024 Rawi Abdelal | E-mail: rabdelal@hbs.edu
David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education. He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders. The companies hail from diverse sectors including energy, fast moving consumer goods, quick service food, finance, government, media, automotive, retail, gems and jewelry, spirits and luxury goods. His teaching addresses a broad set of topics within leadership development and organizational behavior. David chairs Harvard Business School’s first two executive development programs intended for Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal and Indigenous Leaders. The first of these programs, Leading People and Investing to Build Sustainable Communities, was launched in 2017. David worked closely with AFOA, NAFOA, NCAI, and HUNAP to design this program, which is intended to explore how governance practices can shape the management of investments (e.g. sovereign wealth funds) with a longer-term view toward building sustainable communities. The second program focuses on leading high performing Aboriginal Financial Institutions. These organizations provide capital to finance Aboriginal small and medium-sized enterprises with the goal to increase social and economic self-reliance and sustainability for Indigenous people. David also co-chaired Families in Business and Family Office Wealth Management, two Harvard Business School executive education programs focused on Governance of the Family Enterprise. From 2004 to 2012 David served as a faculty member and the director of undergraduate studies in the Sociology Department at Harvard University. One of the first faculty to introduce the case method of learning to Harvard College, David offered courses on leadership, organizational sociology, and field research methods. In 2008 he introduced the first undergraduate course on Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard College with an emphasis on using entrepreneurial approaches to create for-profit, not-for-profit, and hybrid ventures to address social problems and bring about social change. Before coming to Harvard, David was a research associate and Director of Program Mexico at the Ivey Business School in Canada, where he conducted research and wrote cases on companies from Canada, the United States and México doing business in México. David began his career as a civil servant in the Canadian Federal Government where he served as the Chief of Administration to the Minister in the Fisheries and Oceans and later the Employment and Immigration Departments. In 2004 David earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, a joint degree granted by Harvard Business School and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He also earned an Honors B.Sc. in Economics and Human Biology from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a Master's degree in Sociology from Harvard University. In 2010 Harvard University awarded David the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching and dedication to undergraduate education. In 2011 he was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for excellence in teaching at Harvard University by the Alpha-Iota of Massachusetts Phi Beta Kappa chapter. David’s ongoing research interests include leading through change, especially in the context of Mergers and Acquisitions, Belongingness, and Resilience.
Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within HBS Executive Education, he teaches in open-enrollment programs and chairs custom programs on competitive advantage, global strategic management, and corporate-level strategy. Professor Alcacer received the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2019 for his work on Field Global Immersion, a required, experiential MBA course that develops students’ global intelligence and teamwork skills. [Each year, the course brings 900 students to 15 cities around the world to work on a product or service challenge]. Professor Alcacer also received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2003 at Stern Business School, New York University. Professor Alcacer’s research and course development interests are in strategy, growth and innovation. His recent research focuses on growth and exit strategies, strategies to cope with major shifts in the environment (such as Brexit) and strategic decision-making under geopolitical and technological uncertainty. His early research examines location strategies, outsourcing, management of value chains across countries and global supplier-buyer relationships. He also studies cluster-based innovation and global intellectual property (IP) issues, with emphasis on the patent systems across countries. He has published his research in the American Journal of Sociology, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and Journal of International Business. Professor Alcacer is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, has served on numerous boards of academic journals and is an associate editor of Management Science. He has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. Professor Alcacer received a PhD in International Business and Strategy from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He also received a MA in Economics from University of Michigan, an MBA from IESA and a Computer Engineering degree from the Universidad Simon Bolivar.
Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship management (CRM), and digital marketing. She brings a distinctive blend of skills and experiences to serve as an important bridge between the worlds of practice and academia. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand management executive who managed the Gillette, Braun, Sam Adams, and AT&T brands. She began her career on the agency side of the business, as an account executive creating and managing consumer promotions for blue chip CPG clients. Thus, it is in the real world where she first developed a passion for brands, lived the experiences that enliven and enrich her contributions in the classroom, and encountered the managerial questions that inspire and ground her research. Today, she remains close to practice by serving as a board member, consultant, educator, and advisor to companies and their executives. She is the Lead Director, member of the Investment Committee. and former Chair of the Audit Committee of the Amica Mutual Insurance Company, the Lead Independent Director and member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), President Emerita and a Trustee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a Trustee of the Boston Ballet, a Director of the Harvard/MIT COOP, and a former Trustee of St. Paul's School. She is a passionate and enthusiastic award-winning teacher and a creative and innovative course designer currently teaching two MBA courses, Marketing and Creating Brand Value at HBS. She also, as a course head, leads the team of ten instructors who deliver the first year MBA Marketing course. In the Spring of 2024, she launched a new Harvard Business School Executive Education program on Creating Brand Value designed for senior executives in the consumer/retail space. Later in 2024, she will launch two Harvard Business School Online courses: one on Creating Brand Value and the other on Personal Branding. A popular instructor in HBS's Executive Education programs, she has led global executives in sessions on marketing and strategy in programs including Driving Digital Strategy, Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth, Taking Marketing Digital, Marketing in the Digital Era, Strategic Marketing Management, Aligning Strategy and Sales, Global Strategic Management, Launching New Ventures, Transforming Customer Experiences, Senior Executive Leadership Program-China, and Leading Professional Services Firms. She has also partnered with and developed custom executive education curricula for AB InBev, The Coca-Cola Company, Constellation Brands, Mitsui, Kellogg's, Diageo, NTT, IBM, Vanguard, Viatris, Cognizant, ANTA, Bacardi, HubSpot, Midea, Endeavor, YPO Gold, American Express, Suntory, Fazer, Paulig, Ayala Corporation, Grant Thorton, Wipro, BTG Pactual, H World, and National Arts Strategies. She is a prolific and award-winning author of 100+ journal articles, books, book chapters, teaching cases, and technical notes on branding, CRM, and digital marketing, which are known both for their academic rigor and real-world relevance. Her research spans the worlds of academia and practice and has been published in the top academic marketing journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Journal for the Advancement of Marketing Education. She reaches a broader audience through managerial articles and case studies that bring her academic work into practice in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Business Review, and Business Horizons. She is the coauthor of the edited book Strong Brands, Strong Relationships, published by Routledge. Her field research and teaching cases have sold over 1 million copies and are taught at the top global business schools, placing her as #16 (out of 8,000) on the list of bestselling case authors worldwide, and include cases on Kraft-Heinz, Nestlé, L'Oréal, Porsche, Pepsi, Budweiser, Marriott/Starwood, Longchamp, Nike, Glossier, Away, J.C. Penney, Farfetch, Dollar Tree, Skims, FARM Rio, White Claw, OneFineStay, Peapod, EMC, JP Morgan Chase, Shiseido, Tate Modern, Christie's, Shinola, Supreme, and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Her doctoral dissertation on online brand communities and digital marketing won the Harvard Business School Wyss Award for excellence in doctoral research and the Marketing Science Institute’s Best Paper Award for work published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing. Her work on omnichannel marketing and e-commerce was recognized with the Louis W. Stern Award from the American Marketing Association, for an outstanding article that has made a significant contribution to the literature on marketing and channels distribution. Her work on underdog brands and brand storytelling earned an honorable mention for best articles published in the Journal of Consumer Research in 2011. The Case Centre awarded her HubSpot case on digital marketing the Marketing Award in 2014, her Accor Hotels case on digital disruption and transformation the Overall Case Award in 2019, and her GAP case on big data and predictive analytics the Marketing Award in 2020. Her branding insights have been cited in Advertising Age, The Economist, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg/Business Week, among many other publications. At HBS, she is an empowering and devoted mentor to MBA students and junior faculty. She is a 2018 recipient of the Robert F. Greenhill award and a 2022 recipient of the Greenhill Service Award in recognition for her service to the HBS community as faculty advisor to the Women’s Student Association, as faculty chair of convening and special events, as a Section Chair, and for her partnership with the HBS admissions office to develop and deliver programming to broaden the pipeline of MBA applicants. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (marketing) from Harvard Business School, a MBA (marketing and finance) from the Wharton School, and a BA (English) from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she was an assistant professor of marketing at the Simmons School of Management from 2007-2013, where she was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor.
John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and securities fraud allegations, including those arising out of mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. He also has extensive experience handling the defense of SEC investigations and the unique issues presented by class actions. He teaches the EC course Law, Management and Entrepreneurship each semester. John has represented high technology and other public and private companies, which have included a national NYSE retailer, Raytheon, Canaccord Genuity, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Gulf Oil, Cumberland Farms, Vonage, Discovery Communications, Chicago Bridge & Iron, Babcock Power, Aspect Medical Systems, Sonus Networks, Peritus Software Services, Akamai Technologies, BioSphere Medical, Inc., Copley Pharmaceuticals, Fallbrook Technologies, Storage Technology, Avid and Michaels Stores. Clients also relied on John for counsel on corporate governance matters and in connection with SEC, FINRA and state regulatory investigations. In addition to advising clients in securities matters, John represented companies involved in litigation arising from consumer class actions and software or other technology licensing disputes and supervised pro bono cases involving veterans seeking benefits from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and individuals seeking housing and Social Security Administration assistance. John has been included among the Best Lawyers in America in the 2014-2022 editions for commercial litigation and securities litigation; recommended in the 2017 edition of The Legal 500 United States for securities litigation: defense; recognized as a Massachusetts leader in the Litigation: Securities field in the 2006-2015 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business; and recognized as a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in securities litigation in Boston Magazine's annual listing. John has lectured in both first and second year courses, including Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship, the Founders' Journey and the Entrepreneurial Manager at HBS and has been a visiting teacher at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he co-taught a course he helped design for second year MBA students entitled "Essential Law for Business." John serves on the Marine Biological Laboratory Council in Woods Hole and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the New England Legal Foundation, a non-profit public interest firm addressing policy concerns related to free enterprise. He is also a former member of the Finance Committee for the Town of Weston and served previously as a Regional Chair of the Harvard College Parents Fund. John received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982 and an S.B. in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978.
Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books include Complicit; Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore); Better, Not Perfect; The Power of Experiments (with Michael Luca); The Power of Noticing; Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (with Don A. Moore); and Blind Spots (with Ann Tenbrunsel). Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management, the Academy of Management Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, Max was named as Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and as one of Daily Kos' Heroes for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial. Max’s former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School at Duke, the Johnson School at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School. His professional activities include projects with Abbott, Aetna, AIG, Alcar, Alcoa, Allstate, Ameritech, Amgen, Apax Partners, Asian Development Bank, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Becton Dickenson, Biogen, Boston Scientific, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Business Week, Celtic Insurance, Chevron, Chicago Tribune, City of Chicago, and additional companies that start with letters between D and Z. Max's consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in 30 countries.
Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the second-year MBA course Managing Human Capital, the HBS Live Online Classroom course Developing Yourself as a Leader, and various executive education programs. He previously taught the first-year MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Innovation and Leadership Through the Fusion of Digital and Analog (an MBA immersive field course in Tokyo), and a PhD course on the craft of field research. As workplaces evolve to meet rapidly changing needs, Professor Bernstein studies the impact of increased workplace transparency (who gets to observe whom--the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, and contributions) and increased workplace connectivity (who gets to communicate with whom--the patterns of human interaction that facilitate collaboration and information exchange) on employee behavior, organizational performance, and worker satisfaction. These two trends carry both benefits and hazards for organizations and their employees, with profound implications for how today’s managers need to lead, organize, design their organizations, and structure collaboration and work. Professor Bernstein’s research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Harvard Business Review, Research in Organizational Change and Development, and People + Strategy, and it has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NPR, Inc., Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, Esquire, Nikkei Business, Nikkei Shimbun, Le Monde, Maeil Business (Korea), and TEDxBoston, among other outlets. For his work on organizations and leadership, Professor Bernstein is a 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize winner and a 2014 HBR McKinsey Award finalist. His research has won INGRoup’s inaugural J. Richard Hackman Award for the Dissertation That Most Significantly Advances the Study of Groups, the Academy of Management’s 2013 Outstanding Publication Award in Organizational Behavior, the Academy of Management’s 2013 Best Published Paper Award in Organization and Management Theory, the Academy of Management's 2015 Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication Award in Organizational Behavior, the Academy of Management's 2014 Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award in Organizational Behavior, the INGRoup 2014 Outstanding Paper award, the 2013 Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award from the International Leadership Association, the HBS Wyss Award for Excellence in Research, and the Susan G. Cohen Doctoral Research Award. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Professor Bernstein spent a half-decade at The Boston Consulting Group in Toronto and Tokyo. Tapped by Elizabeth Warren in 2010 to join the implementation team at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he spent nearly two years in executive positions, including Chief Strategy Officer and Deputy Assistant Director of Mortgage Markets, at this newly established United States federal agency. Professor Bernstein earned his doctorate in management at Harvard, where he also received a JD/MBA degree. While a doctoral student, he was a Kauffman Foundation Fellow in Law, Innovation, and Growth, and he remains a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar Associations. He holds an AB in Economics from Amherst College, which included study at Doshisha University in Kyoto. Professor Bernstein is an avid cyclist, skier, swimmer, reader, and “Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!” listener. Originally from Los Angeles, he and his family now live in Newton, Massachusetts.
John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining HBS, he was an assistant professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Beshears’s primary research area is behavioral economics, the field that combines insights from psychology and economics to understand individual decision making and market outcomes. He collaborates with organizations to study how managers can change the design of decision-making environments — for example by altering the way choices are presented or by adjusting the process that is used to select options from a menu — to influence the decisions of customers and employees. In recent work, he has examined participation in retirement savings plans, household investment decisions, and health-care choices. The National Institutes of Health, Social Security Administration, FINRA Investor Education Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, TIAA Institute, and National Science Foundation have supported Professor Beshears’s research. His work has been published in journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Science, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; it has also been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Time. After earning his Ph.D. in business economics at HBS, Professor Beshears was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received an AB in economics from Harvard University.
Anjali Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS and a Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute for the study of complex adaptive systems. She teaches the first year organizational behavior course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Bhatt completed her PhD in organizational behavior from Stanford GSB and her AB in physics and chemistry from Harvard College. Prior to graduate studies, she spent several years as a nonprofit consultant. Professor Bhatt's research investigates structural and cultural change in organizations, including the dynamics of hiring, M&A, and reorganizations. Her work employs a variety of computational methods, including simulations, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Professor Kent Bowen's current research and teaching is in the field of operations and technology management. He has served as course head for the required first year MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, two advanced level courses, Running and Growing the Small Company, The Operating Manager, and Commercializing Science and High Technology. Professor Bowen joined HBS in 1992 after 22 years on the faculties of Materials Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on managing technology-based enterprises: (1) managing science-based organizations; (2) a framework for the operations manager as leader, learner and teacher, and (3) principles for rapid learning in operations and technology management. At MIT, Professor Bowen was Ford Professor of Engineering and a founder of Leaders for Manufacturing, a joint research and education program developed by MIT's School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management. Throughout his career at MIT, Bowen's research focused on advanced materials, materials processing, technology management, and manufacturing. He has authored or co-authored over 190 articles, 45 case studies, and two books. Professor Bowen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of several professional societies. Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Road Morgan Hall 437 Boston, MA 02163 Tel: 617-495-6567 Fax: 617-496-4066 email: kbowen@hbs.edu Click here for Teaching Cases and Harvard Business Review articles authored by Professor Bowen.
Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1976, and has taught in all the major HBS programs - MBA, Program for Management Development (PMD), Program for Global Leadership (PGL), and Advanced Management Program (AMP). Among his administrative assignments he has served as Chairman of the MBA Program (1992 to 1995), during the school's project to redesign the MBA Program - MBA: Leadership and Learning, and as Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of HBS Publishing.Professor Cash's non-academic activities include serving as a Trustee or Overseer for non-profit organizations, and on the Board of Directors for several public companies. He has worked with many companies and governments around the world in both consulting and teaching assignments. Before his graduate education and joining the Harvard faculty, he worked as Director of Data Processing for several years, which followed jobs as a systems analyst, systems programmer, and application programmer.His work and research are focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector. Amon his publications are articles in accounting and information technology journals, several Harvard Business Review articles including “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration” (November-December 2008), “IS Redraws Competitive Boundaries” (March-April 1985), and “Information Technology and Tomorrow’s Manager” (November-December 1988), several books: Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control and INnformation Technology with Eccles, Nohria and Nolan (Irwin), Corporate Information Systems Management: Issues Facing Senior Managers and Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases with McFarlan and McKenney (Irwin), Global Electronic Wholesale Banking with Mookerjee (Graham & Trotman), and an instructional videotape, Competing Through Information Technology with Warren McFarlan (Nathan/Tyler).
Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a co-director of the of the Pricing Lab at the D3 Institute at Harvard, and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Cavallo's research focuses on inflation. In particular, he studies the behavior of prices and its implications for macroeconomic measurement, models and policies. He pioneered the use of online data to measure inflation and conduct research on high-frequency pricing dynamics during his Ph.D. at Harvard. He created Inflacion Verdadera in 2007 to measure the real inflation rate in Argentina and co-founded The Billion Prices Project in 2008 to expand the measurement of online inflation globally. He also co-founded PriceStats in 2011, the leading private source of inflation and PPP statistics in over 25 countries. Cavallo earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with summa cum laude from the Universidad of San Andres in Buenos Aires in 2000. In 2005, he earned a Masters in Business Administration from MIT, and in 2010 he earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two sons.
Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother that he found his true calling. The young adults he met had immense talent, yet all too often they were stranded outside the economic mainstream. Chertavian saw that when given a fair chance, with challenging standards and high support, these young people could accomplish anything. In 2000, he dedicated his life and business expertise to closing the “Opportunity Divide”, and Year Up was born. Since then, Year Up has become one of the fastest growing non-profits in the nation and has been recognized by Fast Company and The Monitor Group as one of the top 25 organizations using business excellence to engineer social change. Year Up has served 45,000 young adults in 30 locations across the nation, with an operating budget in excess of $190M. In 2008, he was appointed by then-Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick to serve on the Massachusetts State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. In 2013, he was appointed by Governor Patrick to serve as chairman of the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees and reappointed to that role by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker in 2016. Gerald earned a B.A. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College and in 2017 he was awarded the Bowdoin Common Good Award. He received his M.B.A., with honors, from Harvard Business School and in 1992 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014. He served on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and is a former member of the World Economic Forum’s Youth Unemployment Council. Gerald is also an Emeritus Trustee of both Bowdoin College and the Boston Foundation. His 2012 book, A Year Up, is a New York Times best seller.
Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise Initiative. Much of his research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets. His recent research focuses on designing and delivering advice and education over mobile phones, with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management. He has worked in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam. He is an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. He is on the board of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as the faculty lead on Corporate Engagement. He is an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for International Development. At HBS, he has taught FIN1 and FIN2 in the core curriculum, Business at the Base of the Pyramid, and courses on impact investing, as well as various executive education courses, and the Ph.D. development sequence in the department of Economics. Before joining the Harvard Business School, Professor Cole worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the economic research department. He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve's Community Development Research Advisory Council, served as an external advisor to the Gates Foundation, and was the chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association, a non-profit educational organization. He is a cofounder and board member of a non-profit, Precision Agriculture for Development. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from Cornell University. His work on insurance earned the 2015 Shin Research Excellence Award; in 2015 he was also named given a Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute.
Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance. He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently serving as Chair of the Owner/President Management Program and teaching Financial Management in this program for entrepreneurial executives. He continues to be a faculty member in "Making Corporate Boards More Effective" and other executive programs at the Harvard Business School. Professor Crane was Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School for eight years, including service as Director of Faculty Development and Director of Research. Most recently he was the Chair of the School's European Research Initiative. He was also one of the faculty coordinators of the HBS Global Corporate Governance Initiative. He has been a consultant to a number of financial institutions and companies in the United States and abroad. Professor Crane is a member of the Board of Legg Mason Partners Equity Funds and serves as Lead Director. He was formerly a Director of the Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation and has served on the boards of other private and public companies. He is also Chair of the Board of Trustees of Old South Church in Boston. Professor Crane's research work has included a number of topics related to financial service firms, financial management and coporate governance. This work has led to several co-authored books, including The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective and Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work. He has also published numerous articles in Harvard Business Review, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Financial Services Research, California Management Review, and other journals. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Professor Crane was an economist and Director of Operations Research at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the University of Michigan for his MBA. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an applied microeconomist whose research examines competitive interactions among and between payers, providers of healthcare services, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with an emphasis on policy implications. Her work has been published in academic journals such as The American Economic Review and The New England Journal of Medicine, and featured in popular media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Current projects include studies of patient assistance for pharmaceuticals, the organizational structure of the healthcare sector, and private and public-sector efforts to optimize and contain healthcare spending. Professor Dafny is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor of Management Science, and Treasurer of the American Society of Health Economists. She recently completed over a decade of service on the Board of Editors for American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and served on the board of the Health Care Cost Institute from 2013 to 2020. Professor Dafny’s expertise spans both the public and private sectors. She was Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission from 2012-2013 and was on the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office for over a decade. She has submitted public comments and amicus briefs in several matters and has testified on competition issues to both houses of Congress and in federal court. Dafny advises companies, government agencies, and nonprofits on a variety of issues including antitrust matters, strategic decisions, and public policy. Professor Dafny graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company prior to earning her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Julian De Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit, and Director of the Ethical Intelligence Lab, at Harvard Business School. He earned his PhD in psychology from Harvard, masters from Oxford, and BA from Yale. He teaches Creating Brand Value in the elective curriculum, Consumer Behavior in the doctoral curriculum, and has taught marketing in the required and executive curricula. His research focuses on how AI/automation impacts core issues in marketing, including innovation diffusion, branding, and customer relationship management. He works on problems at the intersection of consumer psychology, ethics, and AI. Julian is the winner of the Case Center Outstanding Writer award and nine teaching awards, including Harvard College’s Special Commendation. He was formerly a Rhodes Scholar. He has published over 40 articles in journals such as Nature Human Behavior, Nature Medicine, The Journal of Consumer Psychology, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. He has also written cases about various companies in tech and beyond, serves as an advisor for startups, and consults for companies on topics related to AI, insurance, ethics, and regulation.
John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing, and previously initiated and led the HBS Executive Education program in Digital Marketing and taught the elective MBA course, Digital Marketing Strategy. His research on marketing management and consumer behavior has been published in a variety of journals including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Harvard Business Review. His research has also received a number of commendations, including the American Marketing Association’s Best Article Award for an article in the Journal of Marketing and an honorable mention from the Journal of interactive Marketing. He received the European Case Clearing House Award in Marketing (2012), the Edward N. Mayer, Jr. Award for Education Leadership (2011), the Direct Marketing Education Foundation Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award (2002), and the University of Chicago's Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award (1995). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the Judge School of Business at Cambridge University and the Said Business School at Oxford University. He is a past editor of the Journal of Consumer Research, a leading outlet for scholarly research on consumer behavior, and was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, which reports academic research on marketing and the Internet. He is a past Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute, a member of the Chairman’s Advisory Council of Marketing Edge, and a Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He has been with HBS since 1994 and received the Greenhill Award for outstanding service to the school. Prior to joining HBS, he was on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College). He has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He also has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Natal. His applied research includes consulting with a number of U.S and international corporations.
Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program, the General Management Program, the Program for Leadership Development, the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He is currently co-teaching a MBA field/project-based course "Business of the Arts." He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and first year marketing in the MBA program as well as a doctoral seminar in marketing management. He is the faculty chair of the Global Colloquium for Participant-Centered Learning and has previously been coordinator for Marketing faculty recruiting, coordinator for Marketing doctoral program admissions, and faculty chair of the Strategic Marketing Management executive program at Harvard Business School. He is also the faculty chair for Harvard Business School South Asia research. In addition to teaching marketing, he was a part of the design and delivery team that created the Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) MBA required course at HBS focusing on ethics and corporate governance and was faculty chair of the LCA in India executive program. In 2008-2009 Deshpande was recognized as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow for Business Ethics and in 2015 received the Robert F. Greenhill award for outstanding contributions to the HBS community. Most recently his case studies on "Terror at the Taj" and "Street Symphony" have won Silver Telly Awards and his co-authored paper "Consumers avoid buying from firms with higher CEO-to-worker pay ratios" won the 2021 Journal of Consumer Psychology Park Best Paper Award. Deshpandé introduced the concept of “customer-centricity” at an American Marketing Association meeting talk in 1998 well before the term "customer-centricity" became the strategic focus of leading corporations worldwide. In a series of research papers he has profiled high performance, customer-centric companies in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He has published several technical articles, cases, and monographs and was cited in an American Marketing Association study as one of the most highly published full professors in the marketing discipline. His recent work on this topic is published in the “Core Readings in Marketing Series: Customer Centricity.” He is now extending Customer-Centricity into Audience Engagement in arts and culture organizations with case studies on the marketing of jazz (“Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center”), theater (“American Repertory Theater”), media/entertainment (“Tyra Banks: Personal Branding”), art ("The Louvre"), and classical music ("The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Cultural Entrepreneurship", "Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road" and "Street Symphony"). He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of International Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, and the Asian Journal of Marketing. He is on the Executive Directors Council of the Marketing Science Institute and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association. Deshpandé has also been a principal in a marketing research consulting firm and an electronics manufacturing company. He is an elected member of Beta Alpha Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa and has been listed in Who's Who in America. He has consulted with and taught executive seminars in a variety of organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and has received several recognitions for both executive and MBA teaching. At Harvard, he serves on the Harvard University Committee on the Arts and is on the advisory board of the American Repertory Theater. He is also on the Board of Directors of Silk Road, founded by Yo-Yo Ma. Before coming to Harvard, Deshpandé was the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He has also held appointments as Associate and Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Professor and Scholar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He served as Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute from 1997-1999. He has a B.Sc. (Hons. Dist.) and M.M.S. from the University of Bombay, an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008.
Dennis “DJ” DiDonna has dedicated his career to commercializing social science research to create organizations which positively impact the world. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School where he teaches the required first year course: The Entrepreneurial Manager. In 2019, DJ founded The Sabbatical Project to define, explore, and research sabbaticals. He is currently writing a popular press book that explores the role of extended leave in a thriving economy and healthy society. DJ’s work on sabbaticals has appeared in The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Quartz, Fortune and at TEDx in Silicon Valley. DiDonna has designed sabbatical policies for dozens of organizations, from nonprofits to Fortune 50 companies, both in the United States and around the world. DiDonna previously cofounded EFL Global, a fintech for-profit social enterprise which enabled over $2B in capital to underbanked businesses and individuals across 20+ countries before being acquired in 2018. DJ is the protagonist in two HBS cases based on his work at EFL, which focus on creating a vibrant company culture and operating and scaling internationally. On his sabbatical, DJ walked 900 miles on pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan and ran a poverty research lab (LEO) at his alma mater Notre Dame. Outside of work, you can find him plotting how to be in Big Outdoors. DJ received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organizational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.
Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial Management faculty. Previously, Eisenmann was Faculty Co-Chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard MS/MBA-Engineering Sciences Program, and the Roberts Family Fellows Program for Harvard College students focused on technology and innovation. Eisenmann, author of the book Why Startups Fail, teaches the MS/MBA core course Designing Technology Ventures. In past years, he served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the 2nd year of the MBA Program—and as course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 1st-year MBAs. With colleagues, Eisenmann has created fourteen MBA electives and MS/MBA courses, including Making Markets, which focuses on marketplace design; Launching Technology Ventures; Scaling Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing; Product Management 101, in which students specified and supervised development of a software application; January Term Startup Bootcamp for first-year MBAs; Avoiding Startup Failure; and Managing Networked Business, which surveyed strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects. He twice co-led a Harvard Innovation Lab course, Cultural Entrepreneurship in New York City, in which students from across Harvard spent a winter break week in New York exploring new ventures in fashion, food, and fine arts, and co-led four similar winter break trips to study entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Professor Eisenmann received his Doctorate in Business Administration ('98), MBA ('83), and BA ('79) from Harvard University. Prior to entering the HBS Doctoral Program, Eisenmann spent eleven years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he was co-head of the Media and Entertainment Practice. Blog: Platforms & Networks Twitter: @teisenmann
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He designed and currently teaches a capstone course in the second year of the MBA program called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) which integrates concepts and frameworks from across functional domains including finance, strategy, and leadership. He also teaches in and chairs a number of executive education programs such as the YPO Gold program. Previously, he served as the founding faculty chairman of the General Management Program (GMP), a comprehensive leadership program designed to create outstanding business leaders that now has more than 4,100 graduates. He also served as the faculty chair for the Summer Venture in Management Program, a management training program for underrepresented minority students, and was the Head of the school's Finance Unit (department). He has received the Student Association Award for teaching excellence multiple times, the Charles M. Williams Award for contributions to student learning, the Apgar Award for teaching innovations, and the Greenhill Award for outstanding service to the school (twice). His current research focuses on topics at the intersection of corporate finance and corporate strategy with a particular interest on how firms make major strategic decisions with firm value as an important, but by no means only, criterion. His articles have been published in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals. In addition, he has written more than 190 case studies, technical notes, and teaching notes on corporate finance, corporate strategy, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, and valuation issues. Collectively, HBS Publishing has sold more than two million copies of his cases and notes, more than 50 of them have been classified as HBS "bestsellers", and nine of them have been classified as "classic" cases (long-term best-sellers). Formerly, he was an associate editor at several leading acadmic journals including the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (JMCB), and Financial Management (FM). In addition to his academic research and teaching, Professor Esty has served as a consultant to and led training programs for more than 60 companies and organizations around the world. He has also served as an expert witness and consultant for litigation involving project finance, corporate finance, and complex valuation issues. He currently serves as a director of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified financial services company, where he chaired the Audit & Risk Committee for nine years, and now serves on both the Risk and the Compensation & Talent committees. He also serves on the board of Gemline, a supplier of high-quality promotional products; and the Finance & Investment Committee of the New England Deaconess Association, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community founded in 1889. Formerly, he served on the board and chaired the Audit & Risk Committee of Harvard Business Publishing, a $300 million not-for-profit education company; was an independent trustee for the Eaton Vance family of mutual funds; and was a director of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union (HUECU). Professor Esty received his Ph.D. in Business Economics with a concentration in finance from Harvard University; his MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School; and his BA degree in Economics with honors and distinction from Stanford University.
Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education programs. Much of Professor Ferreira’s research has focused on how retailers can use algorithms to make better revenue management decisions, including pricing, product display, and assortment planning. She has partnered with online retailers to design new machine learning and optimization algorithms to predict consumer demand and improve decision making, providing theoretical, numerical, and/or experimental evidence that each algorithm performs well in practice. Her work has been awarded or named a finalist for the M&SOM Best Paper Award (twice), M&SOM Best Operations Management Paper in Operations Research Award, M&SOM Practice-Based Research Award, INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Section Practice Award (twice), and INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. Through her research and experiences, Professor Ferreira has recognized that many algorithms are deployed as decision support tools, providing recommendations to employees to consider in their decision making. This is for good reason: often employees have some knowledge or intuition that the algorithm either doesn’t have access to or does a poor job of incorporating. Ideally, the employee could use their own knowledge to make improvements on the algorithm’s recommendation. However, in practice this has proven to be difficult. Employees equipped with algorithmic recommendations often make errors when trying to combine their intuition with the algorithm; they either discount or adhere to the algorithm too much. In her current line of research, Professor Ferreira seeks to understand the root causes underlying this poor use of algorithmic recommendations and provide advice to managers as to how the potential of this human-algorithm collaboration might be better realized. Her work has been awarded or named a finalist for the POMS Junior Scholar Paper Competition Prize from the College of Behavioral Operations as well as the INFORMS Best Working Paper Award from the Behavioral Operations Management Division. Professor Ferreira earned her PhD in operations research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BS in industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was inducted into the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 2023. Before entering graduate school, she was a supply chain consultant for Alvarez & Marsal and a project manager for UPS Supply Chain Solutions.
Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and Financial Reporting and Control and a Short Intensive Program for MBA students called The Life and Role of the CEO. After graduating from HBS in 1986, Trevor worked in investment banking for two years before joining a client, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ultimately becoming Chief Financial Officer. In 1995 he joined former client Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Trevor was Tenet’s Chief Financial Officer through the end of 1999, when he became the founding Chairman and CEO of Broadlane, a Tenet spin-off that was a leader in improving the performance of healthcare providers in the supply chain using emerging e-commerce technology. Broadlane was named one of Inc. magazine's 500 fastest growing private companies. Trevor served as Broadlane’s Chairman and CEO from 2000 through 2002, and Chairman until the company was sold several years later. Trevor returned to Tenet in late 2002 and was named Chief Executive Officer in 2003. Under his leadership, the company grew to $20 billion in revenues (Fortune ~#130) and steadily increased EBITDA and margins. With 130,000 people, Tenet was one of the ~50 largest employers in the U.S. and had operations in more than 40 states and the United Kingdom. After early initiatives that dramatically improved the clinical quality of Tenet’s hospitals, Trevor launched a strategy to diversify the company’s portfolio into faster-growing areas of healthcare while strengthening the core hospital business. Between an active program of acquisitions and divestitures, Tenet increased the portion its hospitals that were #1 or #2 in their markets from less than half to more than three-quarters. Most importantly, he took the company in a new direction, launching adjacent businesses in revenue cycle management and ambulatory surgery. Those businesses, which operate as Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International, are now multi-billion-dollar enterprises and #1 in their respective fields. Trevor retired as Chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017. Drawing on his executive experience, in addition to teaching, Trevor is an active corporate director and investor. He currently serves as lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, a diversified Fortune 150 financial services company principally engaged in insurance. He also serves on the boards of and is an investor in private healthcare services and healthcare technology companies Omada Health, Biofourmis, Trimedx Inc., and Regent Surgical Health. He is also a director of the Santa Catalina Island Company. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of two multi-national leaders in their fields: TowerBrook Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Access Healthcare, a healthcare technology services firm. He is also an advisor to, and investor in, several early-stage companies seeking to transform important elements of the healthcare system. Trevor’s non-profit activities include the boards of the Catalina Island Conservancy, the Board of Fellows of Stanford Medicine, and the Smithsonian National Board. At Harvard Business School, he has served on the board of dean’s advisors and the healthcare initiative advisory board. Trevor received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986. He is married to his Stanford classmate, Melissa Fetter, a community volunteer and proprietor of Beacon Hill Books and Café in Boston. Together they were honored with the 2017 Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award presented by the Anti-Defamation League.
Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the school’s initiative, Managing the Future of Work. He currently teaches the Becoming a General Manager course in the second year of the MBA program and formerly headed The Entrepreneurial Manager course in the program’s first year. A 1981 graduate of the school, Joe was a founder and first employee of the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of its commercial consulting operations until 2006 and remained a Senior Advisor to the firm until its acquisition by Deloitte in 2012. During his three decades in consulting, Fuller worked with senior executives and policymakers on a wide variety of issues related to corporate strategy and national competitiveness. He has particularly deep experience in industries with a heavy reliance on technology, such as life sciences, ICT and the defense and aerospace industries. He is currently researching the evolution of the role of the CEOs and the C-suite in public companies. Joe is the co-head of the school’s multi-year initiative on the future of work. He began working on that issue as a contributor to the school’s project on U.S. competitiveness. His research has probed the "skills gap" and investigates the paradox that many employers have chronic difficulty filling jobs while millions of Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce. He was the principal author of Dismissed by Degrees: How degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness and hurting America’s middle class, a study that investigated degree inflation, the phenomenon of employers raising the academic credentials required of job applicants for positions that have not historically required a degree. The paper is the first to quantify the extent of degree inflation and the high costs incurred by employers who adopt such policies. He was also the principal author of Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills, a widely cited white paper on that investigates the labor market for jobs requiring more than a high school degree and less than a four-year college education. He also co-authored Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. His current research focuses on the future of work more broadly, including mechanisms employers can use to address the skills gap and the implications of changing demographics and the growth of the gig economy for companies. In May 2018, he was named to Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts’ Commission on Digital Innovation and Lifelong Learning. Joe has spoken at numerous management conferences and has written extensively. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, CEO, and The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance magazines, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, The Hill, Axios, The International Herald Tribune, China Daily, India’s Business Standard, and Brazil’s EXAME. He has appeared on CNBC, NPR’s Morning Edition and On Point and NBC’s Nightly News with Lester Holt. His white papers, Just Say No To Wall Street and What’s a Director to Do?, written in collaboration with Professor Michael Jensen are used in the curriculums of dozens of MBA programs worldwide. Mr. Fuller is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund, as well as a former member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. He is a director of PVH Corporation and the Board of Trustees of Western Governors University. Joe is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Distinguished Fellow at the Strada Institute for the Future of Work.
Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in teaching for this course. He is also the Faculty Co-Chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He formerly taught and served as course head for Founder’s Journey in the elective curriculum and was co-course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, required for all 900 1st-year MBAs. Shikhar has been a successful entrepreneur for the last 20 years. He has been the founder and CEO or Chairman of eight technology-based entrepreneurial companies and was the past Chairman of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MTLC) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) - two leading entrepreneurial organizations. He was selected by Business Week as one of the best Entrepreneurs in the US, by Forbes as one of the ‘Masters of the Internet Universe’ and by Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US. Companies he founded were selected as both the ‘hottest’ and ‘coolest’ emerging companies by business publications. Shikhar joined the Boston Consulting Group after getting his MBA from HBS in 1980. At BCG he focused on organization and innovation in large organizations. He was elected a worldwide partner of the firm in 1987. Shikhar left BCG in 1988 to become CEO of Appex, an early-stage venture backed company that built the inter-carrier infrastructure for the US mobile phone industry. Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network. Appex’s services included call forwarding across carriers, fraud prevention services, billing and customer service. Appex was bought by EDS in 1990. By the time Shikhar left in 1993, Appex’s revenues exceeded $100 million with an order backlog of over $1 billion. It was selected by Business week as the fastest growing private company in the US. Shikhar founded Open Market in 1993. Open Market was one of the pioneering companies in the commercialization of the Internet. It built the first commercial infrastructure for enabling secure commerce on the Internet and provided the software and services that enabled companies like Time Warner and AT&T to offer their services on the Internet. Open Market was one of the first Internet companies to go public. It was selected by numerous business publications as one of the companies that helped to make the Internet what it is today. Since leaving Open Market Shikhar has been the founder, CEO or Chairman of several companies in the wireless, payment, Internet marketing, and on-line retailing industries. He has worked in all facets of the entrepreneurial process – starting companies with technical teams, providing and raising capital with venture capitalists, buying and selling companies, or taking them public and closing down unsuccessful companies. He has been a keynote speaker in numerous conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital media and on the future of the Internet.
Amit Goldenberg is an assistant professor in the Negotiation Organization & Markets unit, an affiliate with Harvard’s Department of Psychology, and a member of the Digital Data and Design Institute (D^3). Professor Goldenberg's research focuses on what makes people emotional in social and group contexts, and how such emotions can be changed when they are unhelpful or undesired. He is particularly interested in how technology is used for both emotion detection and regulation. In his work Professor Goldenberg tries to integrate between experimental psychology that examines behavior at the individual and collectives levels. To integrate these domains, he employs a multi-method approach that combines behavioral experiments, analysis of data from digital media, computational modeling and AI.
Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management areas. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in biology from Harvard College in 1987. After spending a year working as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG, he attended Oxford University on a Marshall Fellowship where he received an M.Sc. in economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Business Economics at Harvard University in 1993. Professor Gompers spent two years as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled 'Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.' His course development efforts at the Harvard Business School focuses on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. He also teaches in HBS Executive Education. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers has investigated factors affecting the structure, timing, and monitoring activities by the general partner and how these factors affect the success or failure of entrepreneurial firms. Similarly, he has examined the relationship between institutional investors and private equity fund managers. This work has examined a large collection of partnership agreements and examined issues of compensation, covenants and restrictions, as well as distribution policy and performance. Other research efforts examine the institutional and market factors that influence the performance of newly public companies. He is a Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Corporate Finance Program. Personal Information: Publications Description of Research Athletics Links to MBA Courses: Entrepreneurial Finance Links to Focused Financial Management Series: Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity (January 1996) Corporate Venture Capital (May and September 1997) International Private Equity (May 1998) Structuring Effective Private Equity Partnerships (May 1999 and November 2000) Corporate Venture Capital (May 2000) Links to Finance Related Sites: Finance Journals Venture Capital Resources on the Web Resources for Small Businesses Biotechnology Information
Jerry R. Green David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy John Leverett Professor in the University Harvard University Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics. His current research is focused on principles of equity in collective decision making, the use of irrational choice data to evaluate economic well-being, and the revision of beliefs in the presence of logically inconsistent information. In the 1970s Professor Green developed the theory of rational expectations equilibrium, focusing on the externalities due to observations of events that propagate through the system when agents extract information from prices. He showed that the theory is extremely fragile because equilibria are likely not to exist or, when they do exist, they may be unreasonably sensitive to errors in the data. Later in the 1970s and continuing through the 1990s, working with Jean-Jacques Laffont, he explored the properties of dominant strategy mechanisms that implement efficient collective outcomes. They characterized the limitations of these mechanisms and examined how they might be improved under Bayesian incentive compatibility or by taking a sample of the population whose responses determine a decision affecting the entire population. He applied the theory of incentives to employment contracts and to general bilateral contracts with uncertainty on both sides of the market. Professor Green pioneered the study of how changes in the quality of information affect economic outcomes in general equilibrium theory with incomplete futures markets and in two-person games, providing one of the first examples of what are now called “cheap-talk games." Outside of pure economic theory, Professor Green wrote on many topics in applied microeconomics, primarily in public finance. His work on taxation explored capital gains, dividend policies of firms, income taxation in inflationary environments, banking and the mortgage market, inventory accumulation, and the risk analysis of pension plans. He also contributed to corporate finance, writing one of the first papers to use game theoretic methods to model early stage entrepreneurial investment. With Suzanne Scotchmer, he worked on patent policy in dynamic environments. Over the past 20 year he has worked primarily on theoretical models of behavioral and normative economics. He has written on voting theory, fair division problems in collective decision making, and choice under uncertainty without the independence axiom. Throughout his career he has been devoted to the teaching of microeconomic theory at the graduate level. His book, coauthored with Andreu Mas-Colell and Michael Whinston, Microeconomic Theory, is the leading textbook used in first-year Ph.D. courses around the world. He was awarded the J.K. Galbraith Prize for graduate teaching. Professor Green joined the Harvard Economics Department after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1970. He chaired the Economics Department from 1984 to 1987 and served as Provost of the University from 1992 to 1994. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has served on its Council and on the Editorial Board of Econometrica. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College (Cambridge University). He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. He chaired the National Science Foundation’s Information Sciences Advisory Panel, preparing the Foundation’s Ten-Year Outlook for the Social Sciences. He served as on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Income Tax Compliance. At Harvard, Professor Green is a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Syndic of the Harvard University Press, an Honorary Associate of Lowell House, and chair of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports.
Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous awards for his research, which focuses on the challenge of managing human capital at small and large organizations across the world. His work focuses, in particular, on how firms can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by engaging employees in the implementation of business strategy. Groysberg is author of the award-winning book Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, he has written many articles and case studies on how firms hire, engage, develop, retain, and communicate with their talented employees. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, he worked at IBM.
Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative and of the HBS/Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. As chair of the Healthcare Initiative, Richard was instrumental in expanding the role of healthcare in MBA education and research. Today, over 12% of students enrolled at Harvard Business School are pursuing careers in healthcare. Richard created and taught the second-year MBA elective, Building Life Science Businesses. Previously, he was the Course Head for the required first year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager. In addition, Richard created HBS's new Executive Education program, Accelerating Innovation in Precision Medicine. From 1987 to 2001, Richard was a co-founder and a Managing Partner of The Center for Executive Development, an executive education and development consulting firm. Prior to this, from 1976 to 1987, he was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Richard is also an active investor and entrepreneur, having participated as a principal, director, and investor in the founding and early stages of over 20 organizations. These have included start-ups, leveraged buy-outs, industry roll-ups, and non-profit foundations. He was the founding president of the Newton (MA) Schools Foundation and served on the editorial board of the Harvard Business Review. Richard has served on numerous Boards of Directors, and has chaired the Audit Committees of two public companies. He is currently on the Boards of four corporations. From 1991 to 1996, he was the founding Chairman of Synthes Spine, Inc. Among his recent publications are: "How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy," "How Harvard Business School is Advancing Precision Medicine," "Dementia Discovery Fund,” and "Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine". Richard is the author or co-author of five books, including New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur. His best-known book, Fad-Free Management, was published in 1996. He has published numerous articles and more than 200 case studies. Richard received his AB from the University of California, and his MBA and DBA from HBS. He is married, has two children, and four grandchildren. His hobbies include tennis, skiing, and yoga.
Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s Leadership Programs and created the online Business Analytics course for Harvard Business School Online CORe (a 19- to 9-week program teaching business fundamentals via courses in Business Analytics, Economics, and Financial Accounting). She also co-developed the Operations and Supply Chain Management course in the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), a program designed and offered jointly by three Harvard schools: Harvard Business School (HBS), the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Professor Hammond has previously taught courses in Technology and Operations Management; Supply Chain Management, Business Logistics and After-Sales Service; Decision Support Systems; Quantitative Methods; and Managerial Economics in the MBA program. She has taught in several of the HBS Executive Education courses for general managers, including Managing the Supply Chain; Manufacturing in Corporate Strategy; Retailing; and Managing Orders, Vendors, & Customers, as well as in numerous custom executive programs. She has previously served as Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Planning; Unit Head for the Technology and Operations Management Unit; Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community; Course Head for the Required Technology and Operations Management Course; Faculty Chair of the HBS Analytics Program, and as Faculty Chair of the January Cohort of the Harvard MBA Program. Professor Hammond's current research focuses on speed and flexibility in manufacturing and logistics systems: specifically, how these systems develop the attributes necessary to respond quickly and efficiently to changing customer demand. An important component examines how coordinating mechanisms within organizations and along supply channels affect those channels' ability to compete. In particular, much of her work focuses on the interface between manufacturing and retail organizations. A portion of this research has been conducted in the textile and apparel industries under an industrial competitiveness grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is co-author with Fred Abernathy, John Dunlop, and David Weil of “A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing -- Lessons from the Textile and Apparel Industries,” published by Oxford University Press. Professor Hammond has an active interest in the field of e-learning. Prior to creating the Business Analytics course for Harvard Business School Online CORe, she completed two on-line learning courses: a global supply chain management simulation and a twenty-hour on-line quantitative analysis course. Professor Hammond holds a Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published widely on the topics of logistics and channel coordination, and consults and teaches at several major multi-national corporations.
Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). Her research explores questions at the intersection of development and behavioral economics, with research in three areas: migration, health, and finance. Her most recent work engages refugee populations including the Rohingya in Bangladesh, examining the psychosocial value of employment in contexts of mass unemployment, the role of home in migration decisionmaking, and refugee preferences for repatriation, integration, and resettlement. In her work in health, which involves field experiments across South Asia, she considers the puzzle of the ubiquitously low adoption of low cost, high return goods, behaviors, and technologies in the developing world, exploring the role of learning and habit formation in behavior change. Her work in finance explores how to identify high-return microentrepreneurs using local community knowledge in India and how to increase credit access and returns to capital among refugee communities in Uganda. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Hussam was a postdoctoral fellow at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She received her SB and PhD in economics from MIT.
Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing course in the first year MBA required curriculum (RC), the Moving Beyond DTC course in the MBA Short Intensive Programs, and in various Executive Education programs. She has previously taught the E-Commerce: Strategy, Growth, and Analytics course and the Go-to-Market Strategies course in the MBA elective curriculum (EC), and the Data Driven Marketing course in the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP). In her research, Ayelet studies omni-channel and e-commerce markets. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data to improve outcomes. Her research interests include pricing, channel management, online marketing, marketing analytics, retailing, and algorithmic bias. Her research has been published in leading marketing journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Management Science. Her dissertation won the 2014 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award, and she was named a finalist for the 2018 and the 2019 Frank M. Bass Award and the 2022 John D.C. Little Award. Her work has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, MSN Money, and Harvard Business Review. She serves on editorial review boards of top marketing journals including Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research.Ayelet received her PhD in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She holds an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also earned her MSc and BSc in computer science. In addition to her academic experience, Ayelet served as a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces and worked as an engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries and at Intel Corporation in Israel.
Laura Jakli is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School.Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary and ultranationalist attitudes, and misinformation.Her published work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Democracy, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Virginia Journal of International Law, along with an edited volume in Democratization (Oxford University Press).Professor Jakli earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a research fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Before joining HBS, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.More information available at LauraJakli.com
Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development. She has also taught extensively in both the required and elective MBA curricula. Professor John is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make decisions, and the wisdom or error of those decisions. In her primary line of research, Dr. John studies privacy decision-making, identifying what drives people to share or withhold personal information, as well as their reactions to firms’ and employers’ use of their personal data. In another line of research, Dr. John studies health decision-making, devising psychologically-informed interventions to help people make healthier choices. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Management Science, The Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. It has received media coverage in outlets including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Time Magazine. She has received numerous awards, including from the Association for Psychological Science and the Marketing Science Institute; and was named a Wired Innovation Fellow. Professor John gives keynote talks and consults for a variety of companies and organizations. Past clients include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Genzyme, Glaxo Smith Kline, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Mars, Pepsico, Weight Watchers. She also provides expert testimony on issues of consumer behavior, privacy, and disclosure. Professor John holds a Ph.D. in behavioral decision research from Carnegie Mellon University, where she also earned an M.Sc. in psychology and behavioral decision research. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Waterloo.
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best BuyAuthor of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and the co-leader of several executive education programs for CEOs and senior executives, including the New CEO workshop, the CEO Gathering, the Life After CEO Workshop, Leading Global Businesses and Growing as a Purposeful Leader. He also designs and leads custom programs for companies focused on (1) helping them develop their next generation of leaders, and (2) “Putting Purpose to Work”, placing a Noble Purpose as the keystone of their strategy and culture, and creating an environment that can help them “unleash human magic” in support of that Purpose. His teaching and research are focused on the refoundation of business around purpose and people, leading in a multistakeholder era, and the involvement of business in societal matters. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2020, Professor Joly was Chairman and CEO of Best Buy. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the New York Public Library. Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor. He has also been ranked as one the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and received the organization’s 2021 Leadership Award. He is the author of the best-selling book The Heart of Business – Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism, and of a dozen articles published in Harvard Business Review on the topic of Purpose and “Human Magic.” For Professor Joly’s personal page, click here.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations, governments, and start-up ventures. She co-founded the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative, guiding its planning from 2005 to its launch in 2008 and serving as Founding Chair and Director from 2008-2018 as it became a growing international model for a new stage of higher education preparing successful top leaders to apply their skills to national and global challenges. Author or co-author of 20 books, her latest book is Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. The former chief Editor of Harvard Business Review, Professor Kanter has been repeatedly named to lists such as the “50 most powerful women in the world” (Times of London), and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world” (Thinkers 50, and in November 2019 received their biannual Lifetime Achievement Award). She has received 24 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards, lifetime achievement awards, and prizes. These include Distinguished Career Awards from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association (Organizations, Occupations and Work Section); the World Teleport Association's “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” award; the Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; the International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals; the Warren Bennis Award for Leadership Excellence; the Everett Rogers Innovation Award from the Norman Lear Center for media and society; and several Harvard Business Review McKinsey Awards for the years’ best articles. Other awards honor her thought leadership and community impact. Before Think Outside the Building, her previous book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, is a sweeping look across industries and technologies shaping the future of mobility and the leadership required for transformation. Her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times); SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, one of the ten best business books of the year by Amazon.com; Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, one of the five best books of the year by the Toronto Star. Her book Confidence: How Winning & Losing Streaks Begin & End, a New York Times bestseller (also a #1 Business Week bestseller), describes the culture of high-performance organizations compared with those in decline and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, schools, sports teams, or countries. Men & Women of the Corporation, winner of the C. Wright Mills award for the best book on social issues and often called a classic, offers insight into the individual and organizational factors that promote success or perpetuate disadvantage for women; a related video, A Tale of ‘O’: On Being Different, is a widely-used tool for diversity training. A related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda, honored by a coalition of university centers creating in her honor the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for the best work/family research. Another award-winning book, When Giants Learn to Dance, shows how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy identifies the dilemmas of globalization for cities, a theme continuing in her book MOVE. She advises numerous CEOs and senior executives through her consulting group and also serving as a Senior Advisor for IBM’s Global Citizenship portfolio from 1999-2012. She has served on many business and non-profit boards, such as City Year, the urban “Peace Corps” addressing the school dropout crisis through national service, and on commissions including the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, the U.S. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and others. She speaks widely, and has shared the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at major events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and national industry conferences in over 20 countries. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan.
Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and execute strategies. In particular, she focuses on the role innovation and product development play in creating competitive advantage. Professor Karp’s research spans the healthcare, financial services, video gaming, media and creative industries. She has also studied how large companies and entrepreneurs collaborate to innovate and achieve competitive advantage. Professor Karp’s research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal and Harvard Business Review. Her paper “Gaining Organizational Adoption: Discovering New Uses for Existing Innovations” won the 2020 Academy of Management William H. Newman Award for best paper based on a dissertation. Her dissertation was also a finalist for the 2020 Organization Science INFORMS best dissertation award. Prior to HBS, Professor Karp served as a Principal at Booz and Company. Her portfolio of clients included Yum Brands, Nestle, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, State Street, Barclays, Citibank and other financial institutions. She has also worked with non-profits including the Screen Actors Guild and Boston Partners in Education. She was a board member of Symphony NH. Professor Karp is also a co-founder of Emic Labs, which combines ethnographic and machine learning methodologies to aid discovery of the customer insights needed to design useful products and develop effective firm strategies. Professor Karp received her doctorate from Boston University, where she was awarded a Questrom teaching award. She also received an MBA from Cornell University and a BA in English with honors from the University of Michigan.
William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award. The Managing the Future of Work project considers the unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities presented to businesses, including rapid technological revolutions, shifting global product and labor markets, aging workforces, and growing skills gaps. These forces change the ways that businesses compete with each other and engage workers. This multi-faculty project identifies how companies, schools, workers and the public sector can come together to manage the challenging transitions ahead as the nature of work is radically transformed. The initiative produces leading research on these themes and disseminates to broader audiences through platforms like the MFW podcast series. Bill’s recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society. It explores the global race for talent and how countries and businesses compete for high-skilled migrants. The book reveals how immigration has transformed U.S. innovation, reshaped the economy through the rise of talent clusters and superstar firms, and influenced society at large in positive and adverse ways. The book argues that America, and the world, can get more out of global talent flows with sensible reforms. Bill’s broader research centers on how companies and economies explore new opportunities and generate growth. He considers the leadership and resources necessary to identify, launch and sustain dynamic and enduring organizations. He works with companies worldwide on the development of new ventures and transformations for profitable growth. He also advises governments about investments in the innovative capacities of their nations. Bill and his family live in Lexington, MA. They enjoy outdoor sports and CrossFit, are active members of their local church, and maintain close ties to his wife's home country of Finland. Bill grew up in Alabama and remains a passionate college football fan.
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Director of the Center for International Development and the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy. He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets, such as The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN. His recent work ranges from understanding market failures in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 to pursue research on how religious institutions impact individual beliefs. Khwaja received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. He was born in London, U.K. and lived in Kano, Nigeria and Lahore, Pakistan before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He continues to enjoy interacting with people around the globe. Khwaja also serves as the faculty co-chair of a week-long executive education program, "Rethinking Financial Inclusion: Smart Design for Policy and Practice," aimed primarily at professionals involved in the design and regulation of financial products and services for low-income populations.
Aliya Korganbekova is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Korganbekova's research focuses on accounting disclosure and regulation with an emphasis on sustainability and artificial intelligence. Some of her work explores the real and spillover effects arising from state-level climate change regulations. Professor Korganbekova holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Boston University, an M.A. in Economics from Central European University, and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as an auditor at KPMG.
Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on Computation and Society, and the Laboratory of Innovation Science at Harvard. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management, and has previously offered multiple courses and guest lectures on a diverse set of topics pertaining to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and their real world implications. Professor Lakkaraju's research focuses on the algorithmic, practical, and ethical implications of deploying AI models in domains involving high-stakes decisions such as healthcare, business, and policy. More specifically, she studies the design and deployment of AI models that are explainable (readily understandable to decision makers), fair (do not discriminate against minority groups), and more broadly reliable when deployed in the real world. She leads the AI4LIFE research group at Harvard University as part of which she supervises multiple postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students. Professor Lakkaraju’s research has been published in top AI and ML conferences including the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), as well as prestigious interdisciplinary journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE). Her research has been felicitated with multiple best paper awards including the INFORMS Best Data Mining Paper Prize and the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) Best Research Paper Award. She also received prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and various research awards from Google, Amazon, and Bayer. Her research has also been covered by various popular media outlets including the New York Times, MIT Tech Review, Harvard Business Review, TIME magazine, Forbes, Wired, and VentureBeat. Professor Lakkaraju was also named one of the world's top Innovators Under 35 by both Vanity Fair and the MIT Technology Review. In addition to her research, she is passionate about advising startups in the space of AI/ML, and making the field of AI/ML more accessible to the general public. She advises the research and product strategy of Fiddler AI, one of the most sought after startups in the field of responsible AI. Professor Lakkaraju also co-founded the Trustworthy ML Initiative (TrustML) to lower entry barriers, promote discussion and debate on latest developments, and build a community of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers working on AI and its real world implications. As part of this initiative, Lakkaraju has developed various accessible, publicly and freely available tutorials on several aspects of AI and ML. She has also started a virtual talk series where renowned experts (both in AI/ML and other domains such as healthcare, business, and policy) discuss their research and anyone in the world can attend these talks and interact with these experts. Professor Lakkaraju received her PhD and MS degrees in computer science from Stanford University. Prior to her stint at Harvard Business School, she has held various positions at Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Adobe. For more information, please visit: https://himalakkaraju.github.io/https://twitter.com/hima_lakkarajuhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himabindu_Lakkaraju
Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in managerial leadership, knowledge management, new product and process design, technology strategy and innovation management. At Harvard, M.I.T., and for corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, and 3M, Professor Leonard has conducted executive courses on a wide range of innovation-related topics such as cross-functional coordination during new product development, technology transfer and knowledge management. She has initiated and served as faculty chair for executive education programs such as Leveraging Knowledge for the 21st Century, Leading Product Development, and Enhancing Corporate Creativity. She also served as a Director of Research for the Harvard Business School and Director of Research and Knowledge Programs for Harvard Business School's non-profit organization, HBS Interactive. Professor Leonard's major research interests and consulting expertise relate to managing knowledge for innovation and stimulating creativity in group settings. She has consulted with and taught about these topics for governments (e.g., Sweden, Jamaica) and major corporations (e.g., IBM, Kodak). She served on the corporate Board of Directors for American Management Systems for twelve years and for Guy Gannett Communications for three years--in both cases until the company was merged or acquired. Her numerous writings appear in academic journals (e.g., "Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities in New Product Development" awarded Best Paper for sustained impact on the profession by Strategic Management Journal), practitioner journals (e.g., "Make Yourself an Expert" in Harvard Business Review) and books on technology management (e.g., "Guiding Visions" in The Perpetual Enterprise Machine). In addition, Professor Leonard has written dozens of field-based cases used in business school classrooms around the world. Her book, Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation, was published in hardback in 1995 by Harvard Business School Publishing, reissued in paperback in 1998, and has been translated into numerous languages. Professor Leonard's book, When Sparks Fly: Igniting Group Creativity, (co-authored with Walter Swap) was published September, 1999 by Harvard Business School Press. Also widely translated, it has been reissued in paperback in 2005 and was awarded Best Book on Creativity by the European Association for Creativity and Innovation. Her book Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom, (co-authored with Walter Swap) was published in January, 2005. Her latest book (co-authored with Walter Swap and Gavin Barton) is: Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts, published in 2014 by Harvard Business Review Press. Before obtaining her Ph.D. from Stanford University, she worked in Southeast Asia for ten years. *formerly Dorothy Leonard-Barton For more information please go to Professor Leonard's Webpage
Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching at HBS, Professor Markey is an advisory partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. He founded and served for nearly 20 years as the global leader of the firm’s Customer Strategy and Marketing practice. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World, with Fred Reichheld. He is the primary creator of the Net Promoter System of management.Professor Markey's most recent work focuses on helping large companies measure, manage, and grow the value of their customer relationships. His published articles on customer experience and loyalty have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, including “Are You Undervaluing Your Customers,” which appears in the January-February 2020 issue. He is the host of the Customer Confidential podcast.He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum. The course focuses on how to effectively design, manage, and improve service organizations. Key learning objectives include how to create distinctive and sustainable services strategies and how to execute service models that enable customers, employees, and owners to thrive simultaneously. The course sits at the intersection of leadership, strategy, marketing, and operations and is recommended for students that plan to lead, work in, advise, or invest in service organizations. He serves on the board of directors for Forethought Technologies and the board of advisors for Joyous. Additionally, Professor Markey helped found and served for nearly a decade on the Board of Directors of City Year New York. He is currently a board member of City Year Providence. Professor Markey earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.
Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS). He currently teaches and serves as the course head for Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) in the MBA Program. Tony recently co-created two HBS Online courses, Leadership Principles, which helps new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others, and Organizational Leadership, which equips experienced team leaders and aspiring executives with the skills, strategies, and tools to rise to expanded leadership responsibilities and guide their organizations effectively. Previously, he was the course head of FIELD, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development, an experiential, field-based course focused on leadership, globalization, and integration. Prior to his work on FIELD, he co-created and taught the elective course, “Great Business Leaders: The Importance of Contextual Intelligence.” In addition, Tony teaches extensively in leadership-based executive education programs. He is a co-editor of the edited volume, Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) for which he also co-authored three chapters including “Pathways to Leadership: Black Graduates of Harvard Business School” (see www.raceworkleadership.com). Race, Work and Leadership received the Gold Medal Award for the best book on Women and Minorities in Business by Axiom in 2020. In addition, Tony co-authored the textbook Management, which features a new approach for teaching the core principles of management course to undergraduate students based on the integration and dynamic interaction of strategic management, organizational design, and individual leadership. His previous co-authored works include In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, which has been translated into 6 languages, Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership, and Entrepreneurs, Managers and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. These three books were derived from the development of the Great American Business Leaders database that Dean Nitin Nohria and Tony created (see https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/Pages/default.aspx). Tony served as the Director of the Leadership Initiative from 2002 to 2018, and in this capacity, he oversaw several comprehensive research projects and managed a number of executive education programs. He was a co-creator of the High Potentials Leadership, Leadership for Senior Executives, Maximizing Your Leadership Potential, and Leadership Best Practices programs and has been a principal contributor to a number of custom leadership development initiatives. He currently serves at the Faculty Chair of the Leadership for Senior Executives program. As part of his work in executive education, he launched the executive coaching component for the Program for Leadership Development. Prior to his current role, Tony pursued a career in database marketing where he held senior general management positions at advertising agency - Hill Holliday, database management firm - Epsilon, and full-service direct marketing company - DIMAC Marketing Corporation. At Epsilon, he served as Acting Chief Executive Officer where he had full responsibility for the delivery and management of strategic and database marketing services for Fortune 1000 companies and national not-for-profit organizations. He also held senior management positions in Epsilon's sales and account management departments. Tony completed his MBA from Harvard Business School and received his Bachelor's Degree, summa cum laude, from Boston College.
Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was a Managing Director at Bain Capital, where she was sector head of the Healthcare team at the firm's public equity division. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Emily was an analyst and a member of the Small Cap team at Fidelity Management and Research, focused largely on Healthcare, Industrial and Consumer companies. A Canadian native, she earned a BA with Great Distinction from McGill University in Economics and Political Science, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Emily lives in Boston with her husband and two children.
Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program; International Senior Managers Program; Delivering Information Services Program, and several of the Social Sector programs. He is currently teaching in several short Executive Education programs. In 1973, shortly after his appointment to full professor he, along with four other faculty members, was sent to Switzerland to set up the School's International Senior Management Program. He returned from Switzerland in 1975 to become Chairman of the Advanced Management Program, a position he held until 1978; and Chairman of all Executive Education Programs from 1977-1980. He was Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1991 to 1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations from 1995-2000, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Asia Pacific from 1999-2004. Professor McFarlan’s newest book, Effective Fundraising: The Trustee’s Role and Beyond was published in March 2021 by John Wiley. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with Professors Regina M. Abrami and William C. Kirby, was released in February 2014. Joining a Non-Profit Board: What You Need to Know, coauthored with Professor Marc J. Epstein, appeared in March 2011, published by Jossey-Bass Division of John Wiley. Chinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases, coauthored with Professor Guoqing Chen, published by Tsinghua University Press, appeared in 2009. (Available in Mandarin only). Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases (seventh edition), coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2006. Seizing Strategic IT Advantage in China, coauthored with Professor Richard Nolan and Professor Guoqing Chen of Tsinghua University, appeared in 2003 (available only in Chinese). Professor McFarlan's book, Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age, coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin, appeared in 2002. "Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits" appeared in the November/December 1999 issue of the Harvard Business Review, and "Information Technology and the Board of Directors" with Professor Richard Nolan appeared in October 2005. He is editor of Information Systems Research Challenge, published by the Harvard Business School Press, 1984. He served a three-year term as Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly (1986-1988). He served for over twenty years on hospital boards in Boston, including Chairman of the Mount Auburn Hospital. He was Guest Professor and Co-Director of Case Development at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 2011 to 2016.
Kathleen L. McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor McGinn has served in various leadership roles at HBS, including Research Director, Unit Head, Chair of Doctoral Programs, and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Recruiting, Strategy and Promotions. In her research, Professor McGinn investigates gender in employment, studying related questions in households, schools, workplaces and communities internationally. Recent studies reveal the benefits of maternal employment to adult sons and daughters across 29 countries; measure intergenerational investments related to variations in women’s employment in India; explore how social class backgrounds play into women leaders’ narratives; and uncover processes US couples engage in to gradually reallocate household responsibilities. Professor McGinn advises for-profit and not-for-profit organizations on inclusion and diversity. Before coming to Harvard, Professor McGinn was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s Johnson School and taught at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where she received her Ph.D. Prior to her academic career, Professor McGinn was a director of labor relations in the public sector. When her daughter left for college, Professor McGinn and her husband moved to a long-abandoned farm and are (forever) in the process of bringing it to some semblance of its prior self.
Jonas Meckling is Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Climate Fellow at Havard Business School. At Berkeley, he leads the Energy and Environment Policy Lab and the Climate Program of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. Dr. Meckling studies the politics of climate policy and the energy transition, with a focus on green industrial strategy. He received multiple awards for his research, including the American Political Science Association's Emerging Young Scholar Award in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics. Previously, Jonas Meckling was a visiting professor at Yale University, served as Senior Advisor to the German Minister for the Environment and Renewable Energy, was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and worked at the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration (1988–98) and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor (1998–2010) at Harvard Business School. After receiving a PhD in economics from MIT in 1970, Merton served on the finance faculty of the MIT Sloan School of Management until 1988, at which time he was J.C. Penney Professor of Management. He is currently Resident Scientist at Dimensional Holdings, Inc., where he is the creator of Managed DC, a global integrated retirement-funding solution system that addresses the deficiencies associated with traditional defined-benefit and defined-contribution pension plans.Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Merton is the author of Continuous-Time Finance and a coauthor of Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation; The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective; Finance; and Financial Economics. He has also been recognized for translating finance science into practice. Merton received the inaugural Financial Engineer of the Year Award from the International Association for Quantitative Finance (formerly International Association of Financial Engineers), which also elected him a Senior Fellow. He received the 2011 CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award, and the 2013 WFE Award for Excellence from World Federation of Exchanges. A Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance ("Q Group") and a Fellow of the Financial Management Association, Merton received the Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the CFA Institute. He is a member of the Halls of Fame of the Fixed Income Analyst Society as well as Risk and Derivatives Strategy magazines. Mertonreceived Risk’s Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the field of risk management.Merton’s research focuses on finance theory, including lifecycle and retirement finance, optimal portfolio selection, capital asset pricing, pricing of derivative securities, credit risk, loan guarantees, financial innovation, the dynamics of institutional change, and improving the methods of measuring and managing macro-financial risk.Merton received a BS in engineering mathematics from Columbia University, an MS in applied mathematics from California Institute of Technology, a PhD in economics from MIT, and honorary degrees from ten universities.Current Research Focus: Professor Merton’s current research focuses on three areas: 1)Lifecycle investing and retirement funding solutions, 2) Measuring and monitoring macrofinancial (systemic) risk, and 3) Financial innovation and the dynamics of financial institutional change. Connecting Web Sites MIT Web Site Nobel Prize BiographyNobel Prize LectureTheses of MIT Alumni Nobel Prize WinnersColumbia University SEAS latest Nobel Laureate: Robert C. MertonN ova documentary about the Black-Merton-Scholes Formula. The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earned its creators the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates, Jordan 2005Bodie-Merton FINANCE textbook Bodie-Merton-Cleeton FINANCIAL ECONOMICS textbookDerivatives Sourcebook Web site maintained by MIT LFE. A project to illustrate the wide application of option pricing theory. We have collected, categorized and indexed a list of over 1400 research articles since 1980 that have cited the option-pricing research of Fischer Black, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes. Listing of Education, Appointments, and Awards Education B.S., Columbia University (Engineering Mathematics), 1966M.S., California Institute of Technology (Applied Mathematics), 1967Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Economics), 1970 Honorary Degrees Masters of Arts, Harvard University, 1989Doctor of Laws, University of Chicago, 1991Professeur Honoris Causa, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (France), 1995Doctor of Economic Science (honoris causa), University of Lausanne, 1996Doctoris Honoris Causa, University Paris-Dauphine, 1997Doctor of Management Science (honoris causa), National Sun Yat-sen University, 1998Doctor of Science (honoris causa), Athens University of Economics and Business, 2003Doctor Honoris Causa , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 2004Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru, 2004Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Claremont Graduate University, 2008 Academic Appointments School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance, A.P. Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010 –University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, 2010 – John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University,1998-2010George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1988-1998Invited Professor of Finance, Faculte des Sciences Economiques, Universite de Nantes, June 1993Visiting Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1987-1988J.C. Penney Professor of Management, A.P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1980-1988Assistant Professor of Finance, 1970-73, Associate Professor, 1973-74; Professor 1974-80, A.P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearch Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (1979- )Instructor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969-1970Research Assistant to Paul Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968-1970Other Professional Appointments Current: Resident Scientist, Dimensional Fund Advisors (2009- )Chairman, Board of Directors, Daedalus Software, Inc. (2008- )Member, Board of Directors, Dimensional SmartNest LLC (2010-)Member, Board of Directors, Peninsula Banking Group (2003- )Member, Board of Directors, Community First Financial Group (2003- )Member, Board of Directors, Vical Inc. (2002- )Member Quantitative Finance Advisory Board, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University (2009- )Member, Board of Advisors, Santa Clara University Center for Innovation in Finance & Investment (2008- )Member, International Advisory Board, Middle East Science Fund (2008- )Member, Board of Policy Advisers, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science (2008- )Member, Competitive Markets Advisory Council, CME Group (2004-)Member, Academic Advisory Board, Real Options Group (1999- ) Past:Member, MIT Sloan Finance Group Advisory Board (2008-2010)Member, Board of Directors, Dimensional Funds (2003-2009)Member, Board of Directors, MF Risk, Inc. (2001-2009)Senior Advisor, Platinum Grove Asset Management (2008)Chief Science Officer, Trinsum Group (2007-2008) Member, Board of Directors, Trinsum Group (2007-2008)Member, Board of Directors, Integrated Finance Limited (2002-2007)Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer, Integrated Finance Limited (2002-2007)Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase (2001) Senior Advisor, J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc. (1999-2000)Co-Founder, Management Committee, Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (1993-1999)Senior Advisor, Salomon Inc. (1988-1992) Member, Board of Trustees, College Retirement Equities Fund (1988-1996)Member, Board of Directors, Travelers Investment Management Company (1987-1991)Member, Board of Directors, ABT Investment Series (1983-1988)Member, Board of Directors, ABT Utility Income Fund (1982-1988)Member, Board of Trustees, ABT Growth and Income Trust (1982-1988)Member, Board of Directors, Nova Fund (1980-1988) Member, Advisory Board, AlphaSimplex Group, Cambridge, MA (2001-2007) Member, Advisory Board, nuServe (2001- 2004)Member, Advisory Board, eCredit.com (2000-2002 ) Elected Societies and Positions Member, Tau Beta Pi, Columbia University, 1965Member, Sigma Xi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970Director, American Finance Association, 1982-84; 1987-88Fellow, Econometric Society, 1983-Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986-President, American Finance Association, 1986Vice President, The Society for Financial Studies, 1993Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1993-Senior Fellow, International Association of Financial Engineers, 1994-Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance ('Q Group'), 1997-Honorary Member, the Bachelier Finance Society, 1997-Member, The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1999-FMA Fellow, Financial Management Association, 2000-Fellow, Society of Fellows, American Finance Association, 2000-Member, Honorary Board, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, 2003-Member, Honorary Board, Angelo Roncalli International Committee, 2003- Awards 1964 Faculty Scholar Award, Columbia University1971-72 Salgo-Noren Award for Excellence in Teaching, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1977-78 Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1983 Leo Melamed Prize, University of Chicago1985, 1986 First Prize, Roger Murray Prize Competition, Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance1989 Distinguished Scholar Award, Eastern Finance Association1993 International INA - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Prize, National Academy of Lincei, Rome1993 FORCE Award for Financial Innovation, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University1993 Financial Engineer of the Year Award, International Association of Financial Engineers1997 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences1997 'Heroes Among Us,' Boston Celtics, Boston1998 Inducted, Derivatives Hall of Fame, Derivatives Strategy Magazine1998 Michael I. Pupin Medal for Service to the Nation, Columbia University1999 Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology1999 Mathematical Finance Day Lifetime Achievement Award, Boston University2002 Risk Hall of Fame, Risk Magazine2003 Lifetime Achievement Award, Risk Magazine 2003 Nicholas Molodovsky Award, Association for Investment Management and Research (now CFA Institute) 2004 Graham and Dodd Award for the Best Perspectives Article in 2003, Financial Analyst Journal2005 establishment of The Robert C. Merton (1970) Professorship in Financial Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 PRIMIA Higher Standard Award, Professional Risk Managers' International Association2007 40 People of Power & Influence in Finance during the last 40 Years, 40th Anniversary, Institutional Investor magazine2007 Profile, 20th Anniversary, Risk Magazine2008 Distinguished Finance Educator Award, Financial Education Association2008 First Annual Award for Foundational Contributions to Finance, Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University2009 Robert A. Muh Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT2009 Tjailing C. Koopmans Asset Award, Tilburg University2009 Award of Excellence, The Hall of Excellence, Hastings-on-Hudson High School2009 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Life Member2010 LECG Award for Outstanding Contributions to Financial Economics2010 Kolmogorov Medal, University of London Selected Lectures1975 Distinguished Speaker Lecture, Western Finance Association1985 Mortimer Hess Memorial Lecture, Association of the Bar of the City of New York1988 12th Annual Lecture, Geneva Association, Paris1992 Scholl Chair in Finance Distinguished Speaker Lecture, DePaul University1993 Lecture, Discussion Meeting on Mathematical Finance, The Royal Society, London1993 Keynote, 10th International Conference in Finance, Association Francaise de France1994 AEA/AFA Speaker, Allied Social Sciences Meetings1994 Speaker, International Monetary Conference, London1995 Lecture, Newton Institute Seminar, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge1995 Keynote, 12th International Conference in Finance, Association Francaise de France1995 Keynote, 25th Anniversary, Financial Management Association1996 Oxford University Press and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of ManagementDistinguished Lectures in Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge1996 Donor's Lecture, London Business School, London1996 Inaugural, Dean's Research Seminar, Harvard Business School1996 Faculty Inaugural Session, University of Lausanne1996 Paolo Baffi Lecture on Money and Finance, Bank of Italy, Rome1997 Edgar Lorch Memorial Lecture, Sigma Xi, Columbia University1998 Lionel McKenzie Lecture, University of Rochester1998 Martin H. Crego Lecture, Vassar College1998 I.E. Block Community Lecture, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics1999 Keynote, Risk Magazine's 5th Annual Derivatives and Risk Management Congress, Boston2000 Speaker, Boston Economic Club2000 Speaker, Finance 2000, Boston University2000 Keynote, First World Congress of Bachelier Finance Society, Paris2000 Keynote, IMF/World Bank Meetings, Prague2000 Keynote, Kyoto Symposium, Tokyo2001 First Nomura Lecture, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford2001 Keynote, European Finance Association, Barcelona2001 First Nash Distinguished Lecture in Quantitative Finance, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh2001 Nobel Centennial, Economics Department, Lund University2001 Nobel Centennial, Stockholm Institute for Financial Research 2001 Nobels in Venice 2001 - III MILLENNIUM COLLOQUIA2002 Commencement Speaker, Master of Financial Engineering, Haas School of Business, University of California2002 Keynote, De Nederlandsche Bank Conference, Amsterdam2002 Fourth Geneva Conference on the World Economy, International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva2002 Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy2002 Bocconi University, Milan2002 Third Millennium Colloquium, Venice2002 Keynote, 8th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2003 Keynote, Conference on International Accounting Standards, Harvard Law School2003 Keynote, Annual Meeting Conference, Association of Investment Management and Research, Phoenix2003 Keynote, 6th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and Its Applications, Athens University of Economics and Business2003 Keynote, 10th Anniversary Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2004 Isaacs-Jonas Entrepreneurship Lecture, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University2004 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima Peru2004 XIV National Congress of Students of Economics, Peru2004 Central Bank of Peru, Lima2004 Nobels in Venice Conference, Venice2004 Lindau Nobel Prize Winners' Conference, Lindau Germany2004 Keynote, 14th Annual Derivative Securities and Risk Conference, Cornell University2004 Keynote, Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance ('Q Group'), Paris2004 Annual Meeting of Board of Governors, Inter-American Development Bank, Lima Peru2004 Keynote, 11th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2005 Political Economy Lecture Series, Department of Economics, Harvard University2005 Keynote, Mathematical Finance Seminar, The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University2005 Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates, Jordan2005 Business Leadership Forum, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid2005 Keynote, 12th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2006 Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture, Northwestern University2006 Keynote, 40th Anniversary Conference Q Group2006 Keynote, 13th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2007 Keynote, 14th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2007 60th CFA Institute Anniversary Conference, New York2007 Daimler Series Lecture, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing2007 Lecture, "Observations on Sovereign Wealth and QDII Management: Commercial Opportunities," Asset Managers Association, Shanghai2008 Keynote, Silver Industry Conference, Singapore2008 Seminar, National University of Singapore, Singapore2008 London Business School Distinguished Speaker Lecture2008 Seminar, CIEBA Meeting Washington, DC2008 Keynote, Harvard University Law School Islamic Finance Forum2008 Keynote, HBS Centennial Event, Mexico2008 Keynote, Boston College Finance Conference, Boston2008 Marjolin Lecture 27th SUERF Colloquium, Munich2008 Opening Speech, Aix-en-Provence Economic Forum, Marseille2008 Keynote, Stochastic Economic Dynamics and Finance Symposium, Denmark2008 Central Bank of Denmark2008 Boston University, "The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing Conference" 2008 The Hague2008 Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Conference on Financial Innovation 2008 Keynote, 15th Annual Risk Management Conference, ICBI, Geneva2008 Keynote, Speech, Global Financial Linkages, Transmission of Shocks, and Asset Prices Conference, European Central Bank, Frankfurt2008 Finance Lecture, Goethe University, Frankfurt2009 Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement2009 Harvard Business School Global Economic Crisis "Deep Dive" Seminar2009 IMF Asset Managers Roundtable, Washington, DC2009 Columbia School of Engineering and Physical Science Research Panel2009 Keynote, Institutional Money Congress Frankfurt2009 Robert A. Muh Lecture, MIT2009 Keynote, Conference - Facing the Crisis: Economic and Social Policies for Turbulent Times, 50th Anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank, Medellin, Colombia2009 Van Lanschot Lecture, Tilburg University, Holland2009 Keynote, European Financial Management Association, Milan2009 Keynote, World Glaucoma Congress, Boston2009 Keynote, Money and Banking Conference, Central Bank of Argentina2009 CME Global Financial Leadership Conference, Chicago Mercantile Exchange2010 Kolmogorov Lecture, University of London2010 Nathan and Beatrice Keyfitz Lecture, Fields Institute, Toronto2010 9th Carroll Round Lecture, Georgetown University2010 Cambridge Science Festival 2010: "Lunch with a Laureate" Series, MIT2010 Keynote, 2010 FIAP International Seminar: Developing the Potential of the Individually Funded Pension Systems, Chile Advisory and Editorial Boards Current:Advisory Editor, Review of Development Finance (2009- )Member, Academic Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (2008- )Co-editor, Annual Review of Financial Economics, (2007- )Advisory Board, Journal of Financial Literature (2004- )Advisory Board, Annals of Finance (2004- )Advisory Board, Journal of Investment Management (2002- )Advisory Board, North Holland Series of Handbooks in Finance (2000- )Advisory Board, International Journal of Theoretical & Applied Finance (1997- )Advisory Board, Brookings-Wharton (1997- )Advisory Board, Journal of Financial Education (1995- )International Board of Scientific Advisers, Tinbergen Institute (1995- )Advisory Board, Review of Derivatives Research (1993- )Advisory Board, Japan Financial Economics Association (1993- )Associate Editor, Journal of Fixed Income (1991- )Advisory Board, Mathematical Finance (1989- )Editorial Board, Finance India (1988- ) Past: Advisory Council, Financial Analysts Journal (2003-2009)Advisory Board, Journal of Banking and Finance (2003-2007)Advisory Board, Review of Finance (formerly European Finance Review (1996-2005)Associate Editor, Journal of Banking and Finance (1977-1979,1992-2003)Advisory Board, Center for Global Management and Research, George Washington University (1996-2000)Advisory Board, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (1989-1992)Selection Editor, Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Finance, July 1986Co-Editor, Journal of Financial Economics (1974-1977)Associate Editor, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (1989-1996)Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Economics (1977-1983)Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (1974-1979)Associate Editor, Journal of Finance (1973-1977)Associate Editor, International Economic Review (1972-1977)Founding Committee, Review of Financial Studies (1986) Interviews Columbia University School of Engineering AwardProfile: Robert C. Merton in Quantitative Finance, Vol 2 Issue 2 http://quant.iop.org "Too Young to Retire," interview by Rutger Vahl, DNB Magazine, a publication of the Dutch Central Bank, no 3/4 2002"A Model Mind," CFA Magazine , July-August 2004, interview with Roger Mitchell"'Hedge funds' are a safety valve" interview Madrid, Spain, October 2005"Harvard's Financial Scientist," by Peter Carr, Bloomberg Markets, October 2006"CFOs : Don't forget pension funds," interview by Joel Chernoff, Pensions and Investments, December 11, 2006"Derivatives provide security," interview by Kris van Hammet, Het Financiale Dagblad, Spring 2007"Power & Influence," interview by Michael Peltz, Institutional Investor, p. 91, May 1, 2007A model prophet," interview by Navroz Patel, Risk, V. 20 N. 6 July 2007, p. 40"Don argues against annuity with refund," interview by Jeremy Au Yong, The Straits Times, January 11, 2008, Singapore."On Markets and Complexity," interview by Nate Nickerson, Technology Review, April 2/2008"We have all learned," Interview, Institutional Money, 8/3/2007.Bloomberg Television, Interview: Financial Risk, Now versus the Past, November 2007, Bloomberg Television, SingaporeNobel Prize: Nobel Thinkers: Robert C. 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Merton on Stock Options2003 Robert C. Merton Keynote Speech at 2003 AIMR Annual Conference2004 Financial Engineering Graduation Speech, UC Berkeley2006 Celebrating the Robert C. Merton Professorship, MIT Sloan School of Management, March 282006 "How to Pursue Both Comparative Advantage and Efficient Diversification Risk: An Application of Derivative Securities", Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture, Northwestern University, April 5, 2006 View Video.2006 "Future of Personal Finance", Boston University-Boston Federal Reserve Conference, October 262007 CFA Institute Annual Conference, May 22008 Keynote, Silver Industry Conference, Singapore2008 Seminar, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2008 Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Panel Discussion reported in Barron's by Steven M. Sears, May 12, P. 52 2008 Harvard Business School Panel, "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the Financial Crisis," September 232008 Harvard University Panel, "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts," September 252008 Boston University, "The Future of Life-Cycle Saving & Investing Conference," October 23 2008 Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Conference on Financial Innovation: 35 Years of Black/Scholes and Merton, October 162009 Columbia School of Engineering and Physical Science Research Panel2009 Robert A. Muh Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT2009 Harvard Business School Spring Reunion, "Observations on the Financial Crisis"2009 Keynote, European Financial Management Association, Milan
Michael Moynihan is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. Mike is currently teaching Creating Brand Value, an MBA elective course on brand strategy. He has also served as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, supporting teaching and writing by leveraging his thirty years of experience in consumer products branding and marketing. Mike is an HBS MBA graduate, Class of 1993. Michael is also Senior Vice President of Brand, Marketing, Insights & Partnerships at The LEGO Group, the world’s largest toy company. In this capacity, he oversees global brand marketing, marketing planning, marketing technology and performance, portfolio strategy, global insights, and strategic marketing partnerships. In his 27 year tenure at The LEGO Group, he has served in global, regional and local roles across the marketing value chain. Prior to joining The LEGO Group, he worked in brand management at General Mills managing the flagship Cheerios brand among others. He started his career in management consulting with The Monitor Group.
Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.John is a senior lecturer in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School, an affiliate of HBS' Business and Environment Initiative, and a Faculty Associate of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. He teaches in the first year MBA Strategy course. He studies climate strategy, climate finance, and building climate technology ventures, and has co-taught a lab course on Risks, Opportunities and Investments in the Era of Climate Change. John is a Senior Advisor at The Boston Consulting Group, where he advises clients on topics in retail, technology, and climate. He also sits on several boards, including URBN (Urban Outfitters, Inc.) and Bombas. Before he joined the faculty at HBS, John was the Chief Technology Officer at Wayfair where he spent a decade on the executive team, building the company alongside the founders from $200m to $11b, an IPO. While there he started and scaled teams in multiple functions during periods of hyper-growth, including leading multiple technical and product launches. He led the initial development of the strategy that Wayfair followed for a decade, led the development and scaling of the international business & supply chain, launched multiple sub-brands, and held key roles in merchandising, supply chain, and marketing. He was also the Head of Global Carbon Markets and Chief Intergrated Product Officer at Indigo Ag, a leading regenerative agriculture climate-tech company which is the largest carbon farming program by acres enrolled worldwide and was the first to produce verified, registry-issued agricultural carbon credits at scale. Early in his career he was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he spent seven years working on topics in retail, consumer goods, and healthcare. At BCG he focused on innovation where he was a founding member of the Global Center on Consumer Research and a co-founder of the Multi-Channel Retail topic.John is an active participant in climate and emissions policy, through his work on the Carbon Zero Project, a non-profit that catalyzes projects in efficient and effective emissions management tools and policies. The CZP helps foster resources for partner organizations to drive more rapid development of governmental tools & mechanisms to drive an effective, efficient and just climate transition. He is an early-stage investor in climate tech companies, and advises several on approaches to scaling, go-to-market, and de-risking technology and commercial strategies. He also helps boards develop effective approaches to ensuring the effectiveness of climate strategies and has written on key approaches and pitfalls to developing climate strategy.John received an MBA with distinction from the London Business School in corporate finance, and a BA in mathematics from Reed College.
Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them. His research falls into the broader categories of the future of work, the economics of IT, and digital transformation and considers how technology is weakening firm boundaries. His work frequently explores the domains of crowdsourcing, free digital goods, cybersecurity, and generating strategic predictions from unstructured big data. His work utilizes large datasets derived from online social networks, open source software repositories, financial market information, and surveys of enterprise IT usage. Professor Nagle’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the academic journals Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Review as well as in the practitioner-oriented publications Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Brookings Institution TechStream. He has won awards and grants from AOM, NBER, SMS, INFORMS, EURAM, the Sloan Foundation, and the Linux Foundation. He is the co-director of the HBS/Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative. At HBS, he is a faculty affiliate of the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, the Managing the Future of Work Project, and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH).Professor Nagle serves on the advisory board at Nexleaf Analytics and Alphamatician and advises other big data analytics startups. He currently advises the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy and is on the European Commission/ Open Forum Europe Board of Experts for the Impact of Open Source on Technological Independence, Competitiveness, and Innovation in Europe. He has consulted for The World Bank, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Social Security Administration, and various companies in the technology, defense, and energy sectors. He is currently a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to his academic career, Frank worked at a number of startups and large companies in the information security and technology consulting industries. In these roles, he researched a variety of topics related to social network privacy and the economics of IT, conducted cybersecurity assessments and breach investigations, and developed and taught a two-week course that all FBI cyber agents must pass before entering the field. Prior to joining HBS, he was an assistant professor in the Management & Organization Department at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he also served as co-director of Marshall Digitopolis, and as a faculty affiliate of the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. Frank earned his DBA in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard Business School. He also earned a BS and MS in Computer Science from Georgetown University and an MS in International Business Economics from City University, London.
Ramana Nanda is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Academic Lead of the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. His research examines financing frictions facing new ventures, with an aim to help entrepreneurs with fundraising and to shed light on how financial intermediaries, corporate R&D and policy makers can improve the odds of selecting and commercializing the most promising ideas and technologies in the economy. For the academic years 2007 through 2020, Ramana was on the full-time faculty of Harvard Business School, most recently as Sarofim-Rock Professor and co-director of the HBS Private Capital Project. He received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management and has a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. He is a recipient of the 2015 Kauffman Prize Medal, that is awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Ramana was based in the London and New York offices of Oliver, Wyman & Company, where he worked primarily with clients in global capital markets as well as in small-business banking. He continues to advise startup ventures on their financing strategies and also works with philanthropists and investors looking to back "deep tech" entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), and a Ph.D. in Management from Purdue University. Das previously has been Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business Publishing; Senior Associate Dean, External Relations; Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education; Chair of the HBS Executive Education Advanced Management Program and the Program for Leadership Development. He has also served as course head of the required First-Year Marketing course in the MBA program. Prior to that, he taught the popular Business Marketing Elective in the MBA program. Das has twice been selected as the Class Day faculty speaker, and has received the award for teaching excellence from the graduating HBS MBA Class on several occasions. Other awards include The Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community, the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Das has also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IITB and IIMB.Das's background includes management experience in sales and marketing that involved field strategic planning, field salesforce management, new product development, channel management and marketing communications. Das has co-authored three books and his articles have appeared in publications that include Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Sloan Management Review. His recent book on the Future of Executive Development co-authored with Mihnea Moldoveanu received the Silver Medal from the 2023 Axiom Business Book Awards. Das has consulted and/or developed and executed in-house training programs for companies in the areas of Leadership, B2B Marketing, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Management, Strategic Marketing, Pricing, Personal Selling and Sales Management. Das's current research interests focus on business-to-business marketing and management of client relationships in professional service firms.Das currently serves on the Board of Directors of AllianceBernstein, Neurolens, Harvard Business Publishing and Harvard University Press. In addition, Das is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, and the Harvard-IESE Committee.
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Business School. She is recognized as one of the Forbes Future of Work 50, Thinkers50 and 100 people transforming business who are innovating, sparking trends, and tackling global challenges. She focuses on leading transformation through digital innovation and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the age of Data, Algorithms and AI introduces the "30% rule" outlining the minimum technology and change capabilities needed to succeed in a future driven by machine learning and AI. Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere highlights evidence-based best practices in remote and hybrid environments, grounded in over 50 years of research. The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations chronicles the five-year transformation of a globalizing company. Tsedal's work has been featured in many media outlets, including television and online platforms. Her teaching and speaking have garnered millions of views online. Her popular online courses Remote Work Revolution for Everyone and Leading in a Remote Environment (with Ronald Heifetz), have had over 100,000 learners. She teaches extensively in executive education (e.g., Advanced Management Program) and previously led the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, covering topics such leadership, teams, change, and organizational alignment with strategic priorities. She has authored several best-selling HBS cases, including Managing a Global Team, which is the most widely used case worldwide on global and virtual work worldwide, as well as her patented software simulation on global collaboration. Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent a decade working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including strategies for global customer experience, 360-degree performance software systems, sales force and sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures. Tsedal is a recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education and the Greenhill Award for Outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School (a two-time recipient). She serves on the Board of Directors of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Rakuten Group, Inc., and The Partnership Inc. She received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, specializing in Work, Technology and Organizations. Tsedal was honored as a Stanford Distinguished Alumnus Scholar and as the recipient of the School of Engineering Lieberman Award for excellence in teaching and research.
Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. As Dean, building on input from faculty, students, staff, and alumni, he identified five priorities for Harvard Business School: innovation in the School's educational programs; intellectual ambition to advance ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalization, through building a global intellectual footprint; creating a culture of inclusion, where every member of the community could do their best work in support of the School's mission; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard University. Activities undertaken in support of these priorities included: A year-long course in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), that provides students with intensive, immersive, small-group opportunities to develop the knowing, doing, and being of leadership. The U.S. Competitiveness Project, a multi-faculty research-led effort to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. The launch of the Harvard Innovation Lab, an initiative to foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities and deepen interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston community; the i-lab ecosystem now includes the alumni Launch Lab X and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. Harvard Business School Online, the School's digital platform—encompassing CORe, courses, and the Live Online Classroom—that brings the dynamism of the HBS classroom to online learning. Nohria's intellectual interests center on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. He is co-author or co-editor of 16 books. The most recent, Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, is a compendium dedicated to advancing research on leadership based on a colloquium he organized during HBS’s centennial celebrations. Nohria is also the author of over 50 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes. He sits on the board of directors of Bridgespan and on the board of trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, he serves as an advisor to BDT Capital Partners, Piramal Enterprises, and Tata Sons, on the advisory board of Akshaya Patra and ShopX, and as a strategic advisor to Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global (FCLTGlobal). He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR; written for Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Boston Globe; and cited in Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Nohria received his Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007). He was a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996. He and his wife live in the Boston area and have two daughters.
Elie Ofek is a Professor in the Marketing unit at the Harvard Business School. Professor Ofek's research focuses on new product strategies in technology-driven business environments as well as in consumer-oriented companies in general. He explores interactions between R&D and marketing decisions, such as pricing and branding, and is particularly interested in how companies integrate marketing input when formulating innovation strategy at the new product planning phase. He also examines the implications of information technology and digital/social media on firms' product/content offerings and on their marketing mix. At HBS he has taught the first year MBA required course in marketing (also served as the course head), an MBA elective and executive-education course on the relationship between Marketing and Innovation. He currently teaches an elective on Pricing Strategy and participates in a number of executive programs on digital businesses and marketing management. He received his Ph.D. in Business from Stanford University, holds an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University and earned his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion. Prior to entering academics, he worked as a development engineer in the audio/video multimedia division at an IBM research center.
Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including 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. She currently teaches Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors in the MBA program and co-chairs the School’s executive programs on corporate governance, including Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Women on Boards, Preparing to Be a Corporate Director, and Advanced Corporate Director Seminar. Ms. Paine has written widely on leadership and corporate governance, focusing on how companies can meld high ethical standards with outstanding financial results. Her 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 recent publications also include “What Does ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Mean to You? A guide to the four main types[LP1] ,” "Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance," "A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance[LP2] ," “The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership,” and “Sustainability in the Boardroom" — all published in the Harvard Business Review. She has written more than 200 cases, course notes, and articles, as well as the text and casebook Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational Integrity: A Strategic Perspective. Library Journal named her book Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance (McGraw Hill, 2003) one of that year’s best business books. Ms. Paine is a member of the International Advisory Council for the Brazilian business school Fundação Dom Cambral (FDC), and a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. She is a recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award from The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education for her innovative course development, and the Rendanheyi Badge Lifetime Achievement Award (China) for her research and contributions to management theory and practice. Ms. Paine has served as a consultant to numerous firms, companies, and industry groups, and sat on various advisory boards and panels including The Conference Board’s Blue‐Ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise after Enron’s collapse, and The Conference Board's Task Force on Executive Compensation after the financial crisis. She was a director of RiskMetrics Group from 2008 until it became part of MSCI in June 2010, and served two terms as a member of the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). She also served as a director of Atos SE, an international digital services company. A summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, Ms. Paine holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. She practiced law with the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow early in her career. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Ms. Paine taught at Georgetown University Business School and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business as well as National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan, where she was a Luce Scholar. She and her husband, Tom Paine, live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard Business School. Professor Palepu's current research and teaching activities focus on strategy and governance. Professor Palepu has published numerous academic and practitioner-oriented articles and case studies on these issues. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western investors and multinationals, and for local companies with global aspirations. He is a coauthor of the book on this topic, Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution. Professor Palepu Chairs the HBS executive education programs, "Global CEO Program for China" (3 weeks), "Leading Global Businesses" (1 week), and "Senior Executive Leadership Program—India" (7 weeks). In the area of corporate governance, Professor Palepu's work focuses on board engagement with strategy. Professor Palepu teaches in several HBS executive education programs aimed at members of corporate boards: "Making Corporate Boards More Effective," "Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance," and "Compensation Committees: New Challenges, New Solutions." In his prior work, Professor Palepu worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate disclosure. Based on this work, he coauthored the book, Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements: Text and Cases, which won the American Accounting Association's Wildman Award for its impact on management practice, as well as the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award for its impact on academic research. This book, translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish, is widely used in leading MBA programs all over the world. It is accompanied by a business analysis and valuation software model published by the Harvard Business School Publishing Company. Professor Palepu has served on a number of public company and non-profit Boards. He has also been on the Editorial Boards of leading academic journals, and has served as a consultant to a wide variety of businesses. Krishna Palepu is a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a fellow of the International Academy of Management. Professor Palepu has a masters degree in physics from Andhra University, a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, a doctorate in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Palepu received the Distinguished Alumnus award from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences, lower middle market private equity, early stage venture capital and private credit. Perold is also the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, where he had a distinguished career over more than three decades. At Harvard Business School, Perold's research was focused in investment management and the capital markets, and he developed popular courses in those areas. Perold has received numerous awards for research and teaching excellence, and he was voted the School’s most outstanding professor in a Business Week student survey. He also served in senior roles at Harvard Business School, including as a Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the Finance Faculty. In addition to his work at Harvard and HighVista, Perold has served as a director, trustee and advisory board member of a variety of not-for-profit and other organizations. He is presently a director of The Vanguard Group and RIT Capital Partners. Perold received his Bachelor's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.
Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure. Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket business strategy, the connections between the activities of government entities and those of firms, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. Focusing especially on the energy and agricultural sectors, he has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, which are used at Harvard and elsewhere in MBA curricula and in executive programs. Professor Reinhardt chairs and teaches in Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness Seminar, an executive education program held each January on the HBS campus. Professor Reinhardt has taught HBS’s required MBA courses on Strategy and on Business, Government, and the International Economy. He has developed and introduced elective courses on Food and Agribusiness, on Energy, and on Business and the Environment, analyzing these topics from economic and political perspectives, and considering the strategies both of incumbent firms and startups. Professor Reinhardt has developed two courses for Harvard Business School Online. The first, Global Business, draws on microeconomics, macroeconomics, political science, and history to help business leaders understand the economic and political environment in which business is conducted, and the strategic opportunities and risks to which globalization and anti-globalization give rise. The second, Business and Climate Change, developed jointly with HBS professor Mike Toffel, covers the basic science and economics of climate change and explores the relationships between climate change and business operations. Trailers for the courses are at Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms (hbs.edu). Professor Reinhardt serves on the Executive Committee of Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, on the Board of Tutors for the Harvard College concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and on the Steering Committee of the HBS-Harvard Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs. He also serves on the advisory board of R.D. Offutt Company, an agribusiness firm headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. Professor Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College. Born and raised in Missoula, Montana, he lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets and political economy. Her current book manuscript examines the expansion and regulation of securities markets in nineteenth-century France during a period of pronounced economic and technological dynamism. Her archival research integrates the perspectives of state actors, brokers, bankers, police, jurists, investors, and financial journalists to produce a multifaceted account of how modern society and its institutions are transformed by financialization.Professor Robertson received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award and the 2023 Charles M. Williams Teaching Award. She earned her Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, together with an M.A. in history. As an undergraduate, she studied history and mathematics at Wesleyan University. Before her graduate training, she worked as a research analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale projects to measure management practices and managerial behavior in organizations, such as the World Management Survey, the Executive Time Use Study, and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H, conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Her work has helped uncover the extent to which the diffusion of “basic” management and organizational practices varies across organizations within and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in private and public sector organizations. She also serves as director of the of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group in Organizational Economics, faculty co-chair of the Harvard Project on the Workforce. Sadun is co-editor for the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and associate editor for Management Science. She is the author of articles published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Journal of Political Economy. She served as an economic advisor to the Italian government in 2020 and 2022 and received the honor of Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana," the highest-ranking order of the Republic awarded for “merit acquired by the nation” in 2021. In 2022 she was awarded the Prize “Fondazione de Sanctis per le Scienze Economiche.” Sadun received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Please see Professor Sadun's personal website at https://scholar.harvard.edu/rsadun/
Tatiana Sandino is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, most recently teaching and undertaking the role of course head for the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. She has also taught the second-year MBA course Mastering Strategy Execution, the doctoral course Management Control and Performance Measurement, and teaches various executive programs such as Driving Corporate Performance and Driving Profitable Growth. Professor Sandino's research examines how organizations use management control systems—systems put in place by managers to ensure the actions and decisions of employees are consistent with the organization’s objectives. She is particularly interested in addressing challenges associated with scaling up businesses. Her research has been focused on introducing management control systems in growing, multiunit organizations (such as retailers, banks, hotels, or restaurant chains). As these organizations grow, founders implement management systems to maintain consistency and achieve economies of scale. But these systems can limit the organization’s flexibility to take advantage of new opportunities and enter new markets. Professor Sandino looks at design choices of management control systems to enable agility: how systems can be designed to empower employees, promote an engaging organizational environment, and nurture their intrinsic motivation to create value. Professor Sandino’s work has been published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research. Her research has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, NPR news, and Strategic Finance among others. Professor Sandino is an editor of The Accounting Review and has also served as an editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Professor Sandino earned her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her MBA from INCAE Business School, Managua, Nicaragua, and her Licentiate degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Costa Rica. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Professor Sandino was an Assistant Professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where she received the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence. She has received various other awards for her research and student mentorship, and the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School.
Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to 1985, 1988 to 1998 as George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration and 2013 to the present. During his career at the School he has taught courses in Organizational Behavior, Organization Design, Human Resources Management, General Management, Neighborhood Business, Entrepreneurial Management, Global Intelligence, Leadership and Service Management in MBA and Executive Education programs. He has also served as head of the HBS Service Management Interest Group, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, and Chair of the School’s (1993-94) MBA program review and redesign process. Throughout his career Professor Schlesinger has transitioned between academic and managerial roles in education and business settings. He served as President of Babson College from 2008-2013, held a number of key executive and operating positions (ending as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer) at Limited Brands (later L Brands) from 1999-2007, was a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Senior Vice President and Counselor to the President at Brown University from 1998-1999, and was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Au Bon Pain from 1985-1988. His writings on entrepreneurship, service management and organizational management have been widely published and influenced. His work on “The Service Profit Chain” has been recognized as one of the most researched management concepts of the last 30 years. He is the author or co-author of 12 additional books (many of which have been published in multiple languages), including What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms (Berrett-Koehler, 2015), Just Start: Take action, Embrace uncertainty, Create the future (Harvard Business School Press, 2012), The Value Profit Chain (Free Press, 2002), The Service Profit Chain (Free Press, 1997) and The Real Heroes of Business ... and Not a CEO among Them (Doubleday Currency, 1994), and has written numerous articles and blogs for academic audiences as well as for The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. He has served on the editorial boards of five major academic journals and has published numerous management case studies that have sold well over one million copies. He has also completed three video series on service management. Schlesinger has lectured and consulted on strategy, service quality, customer satisfaction, entrepreneurship, human resources and organizational change for over 250 major corporations, non-profit organizations, governments, and international leadership organizations around the world. Schlesinger currently serves as a Director of RH, Inc. (Chair of Compensation Committee), and the DP Acquisition Corporation (Chair of Audit Committee). He has served on the boards of numerous for-profit and non-for-profit organizations throughout his career. He also serves as an advisory council member of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative, and as a member of both the Council on Competitiveness and the Council on Foreign Relations. Schlesinger holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Columbia University, a Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization from Brown University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Babson College.
Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. She teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current research, she studies how inconsistencies in regulation restrict risk management, how capital regulation affects the insurance product market, and more recently, the agency problems associated with the use of internal models for asset valuation. Professor Sen holds a PhD in Finance from the London Business School.
George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" (ROICC) that he designed for the MBA program. With a focus on operating and business models, ROICC has three tracks, entrepreneurial, managerial and investment, for students developing skills to excel in creating or joining startups, moving to managerial positions, or joining an investment firm. It explores growing opportunities in energy transition (such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, off the grid solar energy systems, green hydrogen, renewable energy, and biofuels), materials and product utilization (such as circular models for reuse or recycle, plant based food, and lab grown agriculture), and enabling solutions (such as energy storage, carbon capture and storage, digital and AI driven models, carbon accounting, carbon credits and markets, risk management, and innovative financing). Professor Serafeim teaches in the school's custom executive education programs for senior leaders of global companies. Previously, he taught “Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems”, which received the Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute and the Grand Page Prize, "Financial Reporting and Control," and created the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project that designed methodologies, produced large datasets, and incubated dozens of pilot projects globally on impact accounting and valuation. He has presented his research in over 60 countries around the world and ranks among the most popular authors on the Social Science Research Network. His book "Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World" explores the challenges and opportunities in building and sustaining profitable purpose-driven organizations that have a measurable positive impact on society.Professor Serafeim’s research currently focuses on the intersection between the sustainability transformation and the digital and AI transformation. Specifically, he spends most of his research time on the use of generative AI to study climate solutions products and services. Over the years his research has span four main areas: business strategies in the context of climate change transition risk and opportunities, measuring organizational purpose and analyzing its drivers and consequences, sustainability data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate behavior and performance. His research is widely cited, having been published in prestigious academic and practitioner journals, across the fields of accounting, finance, management, and strategy. He has received multiple recognitions, including the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to the HBS community, the Pericles Leadership Award in recognition of services to the Hellenic Republic, the Kim B. Clark Fellowship on Responsible Leadership from University of Oxford, the Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize, the JIBS Decade Award, and twice the Graham and Dodd Scroll Award. Professor Serafeim has held several positions of leadership that allow him to bring, alongside research insights, a wealth of relevant experience to the classroom. He serves on the board of directors of Liberty Mutual, a Fortune 100 company, and on the advisory boards of leading investment firms, Summa Equity, Apax, and Neuberger Berman. He is an academic partner at State Street Associates, where he directs research on climate change-related transition and physical risks and opportunities and human capital factors that are affecting return and risk for institutional investors globally. He has been an investor and advisor to several start-ups over the years.Previously, he co-founded the advisory services firm KKS, served on the board of directors of dss+, a leading operations consulting firm, and on the board of directors of AEA-Bridges Impact that combined with Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle division to create the first publicly traded electric motorcycle company in the US. Focusing on corporate governance, he served on the steering committee of the Athens Exchange Group, the governance body for both stock and bond exchanges, and as the Chairperson of Greece’s Corporate Governance Council. During his tenure, a new corporate governance code was issued to improve governance practices, investor protection, and business performance. He has contributed in advancing corporate transparency globally, having served on the inaugural Standards Council of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, which created standards for investor relevant sustainability corporate disclosures adopted by thousands of leading companies around the world, and on the Taskforce Working Group on Impact Transparency, Integrity and Reporting established by the UK's Presidency of the G7 nations. He was a member of the first ever decarbonization advisory panel for the New York Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest US pension funds, which offered recommendations on how to identify, assess and manage investment risks and opportunities from the energy transition.Professor Serafeim earned his doctorate in business administration at Harvard Business School, where his doctoral dissertation was recognized with the Wyss Award for excellence in research. He received a master's degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was awarded the Emeritus Professors’ Prize for best academic performance. He grew up in Athens, Greece.
Lou Shipley is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Lou is a three-time technology CEO, most recently at Black Duck Software. Lou specializes in tech entrepreneurship, sales/sales management, go-to-market strategies, and building effective leadership teams for startups and early-stage companies. He teaches Entrepreneurial Sales in the MBA Elective Curriculum, a course aimed at demystifying sales as well as understanding how to sell and manage go-to-market functions. Lou has led three tech firms. He was President and CEO of Reflectent Software prior to its 2006 acquisition by Citrix Systems, where he served as VP and GM of Citrix Virtualization and Cloud Products Group. Following Citrix, Lou was President and CEO of VMTurbo (now Turbonomic) from 2011 to 2013. In 2013, Lou became CEO at struggling Black Duck Software and transformed it into the global leader in open source security and management solutions. In 2017, Black Duck was acquired by Synopsys for $565 million. Lou serves on the Board of Directors of Wasabi, GTreasury, CustomerGauge, Fairmarkit, Logz.io, Alchemista, Alyce, Teamworks and Trinity College, and is also lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Lou has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Trinity College.
Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs. For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that applies design thinking, contextual intelligence and teaming/leadership skills to real-world business problems in 15 cities around the world. He also co-leads the annual HBS Startup Bootcamp, a short intensive program focused on the earliest stages of startups. In the Executive Education Owner/President Management Program, Martin teaches Finance to CEOs and Managing Partners who own and operate family-owned firms large and small. Prior to joining the faculty, Martin served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS for four years, advising Harvard-based startups on all aspects of the journey. In parallel, Martin was Executive Director of Startup Secrets, a not-for-profit organization focused on entrepreneurial education and community-building backed by the Boston tech and VC communities. Martin works with founders and startups as a mentor, advisor and investor. He is active with several early-stage funds as an LP, venture partner, mentor, and executive committee member. He has started, operated and sold interests in technology, health and fitness (Planet Fitness franchises), construction, real estate, hotels, frozen food, and manufacturing. Martin has advised buyers and sellers on private-equity transactions in the $100-$300 million range. Before beginning his entrepreneurial journey, Martin worked in large financial institutions (Fidelity Investment, MBNA America Bank, Prudential Home Mortgage) where he led innovation teams adopting and adapting new technologies into the corporate DNA. Examples include developing and integrating the first Internet capabilities at MBNA America Bank in ‘95/’96 and developing and integrating the first remote workforce capabilities at Fidelity Investments in ‘98/’99. Martin received is BA from the University of Virginia where he was an Echols Scholar.
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both HLS and HBS. At HLS he teaches courses in negotiations and corporate law. At HBS he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic Negotiations, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, and the Advanced Management Program. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University, the Harvard Program on Negotiation, the Mergers & Acquisitions executive education course at HBS, and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey & Company. Professor Subramanian's research explores topics in corporate law, corporate governance, and negotiations. He has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and the Harvard Law Review, among other places. Twelve of his articles have been selected as being among the “top ten” articles published in corporate and securities law in their respective years, among the 400+ articles that are published each year, by scholars in the field. The two-volume treatise Law & Economics of Mergers & Acquisitions, which includes 33 “seminal” articles from the field over the past 45 years, contains four of his articles, more than from any other scholar. His article “Corporate Governance 2.0” was selected as a McKinsey Award finalist, for best article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2015. His book Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions synthesizes the findings from his research and teaching from the past two decades. It has been translated into Chinese (Mandarin), German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is also a co-author of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization, a leading textbook in the field of corporate law. Professor Subramanian has been involved in major public-company deals such as Cox Enterprises’ $9 billion freeze-out of the minority shareholders in Cox Communications, Exelon’s $8 billion hostile takeover bid for NRG, and the $26 billion management buyout of Dell, Inc. He also advises individuals, boards of directors, and management teams on issues of dealmaking and corporate governance. Over his two decades on the Harvard faculty, Professor Subramanian has been involved as an advisor or expert witness in deals or situations worth over $150 billion in total value. He is the Chairman of the Board of LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ: LKQ), a Fortune 500 company in the automotive sector; and an Advisory Board member at Orthogonal Capital, a hedge fund based in New York City. Professor Subramanian holds degrees in Law, Economics, and Business from Harvard University.
Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for second-year MBA students. Prior to joining the faculty, he served as an Executive Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS over a period of six years, advising Harvard-based students and startups on all aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. In addition to his faculty work, Satish is a serial entrepreneur in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. His main interests lie in Healthcare IT and at the intersection of drug, medical device and diagnostics development, and software systems development, primarily for accelerating clinical trials and regulatory approvals. Satish’s current venture, Trove Health (mytrovehealth.com), focuses on building technology for the engagement and retention of patients in clinical trials. Prior to Trove Health, Satish founded a number of companies focused on developing technology products or services within life sciences R&D: Avigo Solutions (Managing Partner), Virtify (Founder and CEO), Tribiosys (Co-Founder) and Enmed (Co-Founder and CEO). Early in his career, Satish was the Director of the Imaging Lab at EPIX Medical, and also worked as a lead Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group, working on developing innovative MRI, Ultrasound, and Telemedicine products. Additionally, Satish was also an active participant in helping develop drug and medical device industry standards. He has also published and presented several articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences on topics in cardiovascular and brain image analysis and other medical imaging technology topics. Satish currently serves on the Board of Directors of Scripta Insights, ConnectM Technologies, Unruly Studios, Gradient Health and the non-profit Gateway for Cancer Research. He is also an Executive Advisor to Blue Cloud Ventures and Advisor to Two Lantern Ventures. Satish is a very active early-stage investor as a member of TiE Angels and TBD Angels, and serves on the advisory boards of a number of startups. He co-founded TiE ScaleUp, an accelerator focused on scaling seed and Series A companies, and mentors a number of entrepreneurs at TiE ScaleUp, MassChallenge, the Harvard iLab and the Rock Accelerator at HBS. Satish holds a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani). Satish and his family live in Burlington, MA. They enjoy outdoor sports and are active members of their local community. Satish is an avid golfer and is a passionate college football fan, especially of the Hawkeyes.
Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia in 1971 and 1976 respectively. He came to the Harvard Business School on a fellowship in 1978 and joined the faculty in 1979. From 1979 through 1982, he taught First Year Marketing. His involvement in marketing has continued, and he has been a member of the faculty of the "Strategic Retail Management Seminar," the "Top Management Seminar for Retailers and Suppliers," "Managing Brand Meaning," and the "Strategic Marketing Management" executive education programs. From 1978 to the present, he has been involved in the School's Business History program. In 1992 and 1993, he taught a course entitled "Business, Government, and the International Economy." He has also taught in numerous executive programs at the Harvard Business School as well as at corporations, including programs in marketing strategy and general management. His book -- Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness, 2001) -- was selected by Business Week as one of the top ten business books of 2001.Prof. Tedlow’s book, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, was published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, in November 2006. It was selected by Business Week as one of the top ten business books of 2006.Prof. Tedlow's most recent book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face, was published by Portfolio in March, 2010. It was selected by strategy+business as one of the best business books of 2010.
Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, built and launched products to billions of users, and grown and scaled teams to thousands of people. Sara joined Harvard Business School as a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit in 2023, where she designed and teaches a MBA course on Product Management. Prior to Harvard, Sara was a Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth from 2021-2023. Prior to academia, Sara spent over 14 years at Google where she was most recently COO of the Google Operations Center, a Google ‘bet’ and independent company she was recruited to design, launch, and grow from a concept into an operating business. Prior to her role as COO she was a senior product executive with expertise in platform and app-based monetization, subscription services, and consumer engagement. She led the team responsible for the initial development and expansion of the “actions” features in Google Maps and Local Search that grew the number of transactions on these platforms from zero to over a million per month. Previously she led the teams responsible for developing the Nest App and subscription service and was responsible for both the technical development of the app as well as the business leadership of the subscription service. Earlier in her career she worked on the Google+ social network team and was a member of both the Global and regional Asia-Pacific sales-strategy teams. She began her career at the World Bank. Sara graduated with an BA in a Special Concentration: International Healthcare and Economics, from Harvard University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a co-founder and previous co-chair of the Google Women in Product Group, founding sponsor of the Harvard College Innovation Challenge funding undergraduate entrepreneurship, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Gluten Intolerance Group.
Isamar Troncoso is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. She teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Troncoso studies problems related to digital marketplaces and new technologies. She leverages toolkits from econometrics, causal inference, and machine learning for her research. Her work has studied the unintended consequences of different platform designs on users' behavior, and the use of representation learning methods to model consumer choices in large assortments. She earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing) from the Marshall Business School at the University of Southern California. She also earned an Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Chile.
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. From 1989 to 2011, he was a Professor at HBS, where he oversaw the school’s tenure and promotion processes, campus planning, and university relations and was the founding co-chair of the Harvard i-lab. Tufano’s current work focuses on business solutions to climate change, in particular the role of climate finance and climate alliances, as well as the financial impact of climate change on households. Tufano’s climate finance agenda builds on his decades of work on financial innovation, financial engineering, and financial institutions. In 2023, he assembled leading scholars in climate finance to launch Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS) to train the next generation of climate scholars. In 2024, this virtual doctoral reading group drew students from over 130 universities globally, with 24 hours of material delivered by the core faculty and enhancement activities at the local schools. See climatefinancephd.org. Tufano’s research and case writing examine how risk engineering, return engineering, and financial collaborations are at the core of climate finance. His current work on risk engineering studies the critical role of the insurance sector as well as advance purchase commitments. Tufano sits on climate-related advisory groups in investment management, data services, insurance, and law. Tufano’s work on climate alliances is informed by his personal experiences in creating and sustaining alliances—particularly in the educational space. At Oxford, he championed Business Schools for Climate Leadership bringing together eight business schools in Europe to support businesses addressing the climate crisis facing the planet. (This group has now broadened to include clusters in Africa as well as the Middle East.) His FECS course, described above, is another example of applying collaborative models to move climate education forward. Tufano’s research in this space, with researchers from Harvard, Oxford and IMD, looks at the theories of change and potential benefits of alliances, potential anti-trust implications of climate alliances, recommendations for disclosure practices, and a forthcoming empirical study of the potential positive and negative impact of alliances. His case-writing examines a few different types of alliances, ranging from net zero alliances to buyers’ pools to stimulate new climate markets. A proponent in the power of collaboration to effect systems change, Tufano is acting as Senior Advisor to Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. The Institute will draw upon the extensive expertise and resources across Harvard and beyond to develop and promote durable, effective, and equitable solutions to the climate change challenges confronting humanity. Tufano’s work on the financial impacts of climate change on households blends his newer work on climate with his long-standing expertise in household finance. In particular, with a variety of coauthors Tufano is studying the relationship between extreme weather—a marker of climate change—and household finances, using both very large and very targeted datasets. Tufano’s work on business responsibilities and systems change is reflected in a number of his recent pieces and is an outgrowth of his service as Dean. His recent HBR piece with Sandra Sucher and David Bersoff studies what people around the globe expect from business—and where they think it is falling short. His writing over the last decade discusses the role of business schools in addressing systemic issues. His Oxford research on the corporate adoption of ESG practices as part of the Ownership Project at Oxford finds strong relationships between ownership and ESG practices. Tufano teaches two HBS MBA RC courses—Leadership and Corporate Accountability as well as the Purpose of the Firm—that bring business responsibilities and systems change into the curriculum. As Dean at Oxford, Tufano championed the mission of making business, business schools, and entrepreneurship forces for justice and systems change, re-orienting the School around global challenges while transforming the gender and global composition of the class. This orientation, along with his approach of “embedding” the School within the broader University, produced the 1+1 MBA programme; the required Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO) course; its global analogue, Map the System; the Engaging with the Humanities Programme; the Oxford Foundry; Oxford’s joining of the Creative Destruction Lab, its Aspen-Oxford Leadership Programme, and more. Tufano founded and chairs Commonwealth, a non-profit building financial security and opportunity for financially vulnerable people through innovation and partnerships to change systems. Their work contributed to the passage of the American Savings Promotion Act in December 2014 (which removed federal barriers to the sale of prize-linked savings product) and a decade later is currently at the forefront of workplace-based emergency savings initiatives. Tufano earned his BA in economics (summa cum laude), MBA (with high distinction) and PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and earned GARP’s certification in Sustainability and Climate Risk.
Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum. Professor van Waijenburg’s main research agenda centers on the long-term development patterns of African economies. To date, her projects have focused on material living standards, fiscal capacity building efforts, coercive labor market institutions, skill accumulation, and inequality. Recently, she added a second research line on the business history of the transatlantic slave trade, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Professor van Waijenburg earned a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University. Before joining HBS, she was a post-doctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.
Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the optimal design of economic policy, in particular taxation, with an emphasis on better understanding the philosophical principles underlying policy choices. Recently, he has launched a set of research projects focused on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications, viewable at www.economicsofspace.com. He has served on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tax Expenditure Commission, the board of the National Tax Association, and on the editorial boards of Social Choice and Welfare and National Tax Journal. Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist for Macroeconomics on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in optimal taxation and optimal economic policy more generally. His work in Positive Optimal Tax Theory has focused on identifying and formalizing the goals for tax policy that hold sway among the public, political and economic leaders, and leading tax thinkers, and then characterizing the implications of using those objectives in the analysis of optimal taxation. In other work, he has explored the potential value of age-dependent taxation, the dynamic feedback effects of tax changes, the use of fiscal policy to counteract recessions, the proper price-indexing of Social Security, and the impact of differences in beliefs and tastes across individuals on optimal tax design. His research has been published in Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journals: Economic Policy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Journal, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, National Tax Journal, and Journal of Economic Perspectives, and has been discussed in the Economist, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He also participated in the 2008 Review of Economic Studies tour. Professor Weinzierl currently serves as Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program. He previously served as Program Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum (RC), the first year curriculum of the HBS MBA. Prior to those position, he was the coursehead for Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), an RC course, and as Chair of MBA Community Standards and the Conduct Review Board at HBS. He has created and currently teaches two courses in the Elective Curriculum: The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME) and Space, Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE). For the former, he has written case studies on public education, national health insurance, welfare reform, immigration, and a variety of topics in taxation. For the latter, he has written case studies of Astroscale, Blue Origin, Made In Space, NASA, Planetary Resources, Space Angels, SpaceX, Spire, the U.S. Space Force, and other institutions.
Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the world. He is the faculty chair of the first year of the MBA program, where for many years he taught The Entrepreneurial Manager. He created and leads the "Teaching with AI" seminar from HBP. He has twice been honored with the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching and is a Greenhill Award recipient. He helped build the Young American Leaders Program at Harvard Business School and is a senior advisor to the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Mitch's work and the Public Entrepreneurship course has been referenced in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Politico, and other outlets. He is the author of We the Possibility from Harvard Business Review Press (2021) and the "Chief of Stuff" AI newsletter. Mitch has been named one of the 100 most influential academics in government. Prior to joining HBS in 2014, Mitch was Chief of Staff and a partner to Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino. Mitch helped shape New Urban Mechanics, Boston’s municipal innovation strategy, and make it a model for peer-produced government and change. He also championed Boston’s Innovation District as a regional platform for entrepreneurship and growth. Mitch contributed to Boston’s educational reform agenda, including its District-Charter compact. He led speechwriting for the Mayor’s Inaugural and State of the City addresses. In April 2013, he guided the Mayor’s Office response to the Marathon Bombings and played a key role in starting One Fund Boston. Mitch has presented on government innovation at 10 Downing Street and the World Bank. He was recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s “Top 40 under 40” and by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce as one of Boston’s “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.” Prior to his roles in the public and social sectors, Mitch worked at Merrill Lynch & Co. where he focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions for many well-recognized food companies. Mitch holds an A.B. with Honors in Economics from Harvard University and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was a George Baker Scholar.
Jaya Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on issues in development economics, political economy, and firm behavior. Professor Wen has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Wen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In her free time she enjoys cooking, kayaking, writing fiction, and playing soccer. Pronunciation guide: the first syllable of "Jāy-a" rhymes with "May.”
Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders and organizations learn and adapt in response to environmental shifts and periods of discontinuous change. Her in-depth, longitudinal field research shows that leaders’ identity and framing – how they see, interpret, and convey firm strategy – shape strategic renewal in settings from high-tech start-ups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Professor Zuzul's research has been published in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Strategic Management Journal. She was awarded the Strategic Management Society's inaugural Research Methods Prize. Her dissertation was a finalist for best dissertation awards by the Entrepreneurship and the Strategy divisions at the Academy of Management, and by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (EGOS). She serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Zuzul was an Assistant Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Washington, where she received the MBA Professor of the Quarter and PhD Faculty Mentor awards. She received her doctorate in Strategy from Harvard Business School, MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics, and AB with Honors from Harvard College.
Samuel Antill is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum.Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate finance, market design, and law and finance. His work evaluates the efficacy of the US corporate bankruptcy system. He also studies the efficiency of litigation financing and dark pools. Professor Antill earned a PhD in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Pomona College. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1972. He was the Co-Founder and Chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. He held a joint appointment as a Lecturer in Nutrition Policy and Programs at the Harvard School of Public Health. Educational Background: Doctor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University with Distinction; Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Michigan with High Distinction, elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. Associate in Arts from Flint Community Junior College with Distinction. Dean's Honor List. Research Publications: He has been the author or editor of 27 books, 31 chapters, 75 articles, and over two hundred case studies and teaching notes. His most recent book (2014) is Creating Value in Nonprofit – Business Collaborations co-authored with M. May Seitanidi. In 2000 he authored The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Strategic Alliances (Jossey-Bass Publishers) which was selected to be part of the Drucker Foundation Leader Book series and received one of the Independent Sector's research publication awards. His current research deals with social enterprises with emphasis on the creation, management, and governance of nonprofit organizations, and on the role of business leaders and corporations in the social sector. His prior research focused primarily on management problems in developing countries, agribusiness, and nutrition policy. His previous books include Managing in Developing Countries (The Free Press), Strategic Management in Developing Countries (The Free Press), and Agroindustrial Project Analysis (World Bank/Johns Hopkins Press). Teaching Experience: Prof. Austin has taught courses in the following areas: Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, Governance of Nonprofit Organizations, Management in Developing Countries, Agribusiness, Business Ethics, International Business, Business-Government Relations, Marketing, Nutrition Policy, and Case Method Teaching. In addition to Harvard, Dr. Austin has given seminars to managers, government officials, and graduate students in various institutions throughout the world. Advisory Services: Dr. Austin has provided advisory services to private companies, governments, international development agencies, educational institutions, and nongovernmental organizations. He served as a Special Advisor to the White House.
Anke Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Anke’s areas of research include economic development, political economy, economics of gender, and behavioral economics. Her recent work examines culture and gender, specifically gender-specific norms and how they help us understand entrepreneurship in developing countries. Anke earned her Ph.D. from the University of Bonn. Prior to joining HBS, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard University.
MICHAEL BEER Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s Capabilities are the Key to a Winning Strategy (2020) The book provides a road map for strategic change. It’s central themes is how honest, transformative conversations lead simultaneously to rapid change in organizational effectiveness and performance, and to high trust and commitment. Mike is an internationally recognized expert in strategic change, co-founder of TruePoint Partners, a management consultancy, and the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance a not-for-profit CEO membership organization whose mission is to help leaders build companies that create economic and social value. You can learn more about Mike and his recent the book on his website. Professor Beer has written widely about organization effectiveness and change as well as human resource management and has had extensive consulting and teaching experience in those fields. At HBS, where he was on the faculty for thirty years he taught in Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program, the School’s pinnacle program for senior executives and its MBA program. Professor Beer also led the development of HBS’ groundbreaking human resource management course, the first in the world to frame human resource as a strategic responsibility of leaders, and the senior author of the foundational human resource book, Managing Human Assets, the first book to frame human resources as a strategic Asset. Mike is author or co-author of twelve books, numerous book chapters and articles in academic and business journals. Among his books are: Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value that describes how leading edge CEOs manage companies that do well by doing good; High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage provides a roadmap for leaders who aspire to build a high commitment, high performance organization; The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal provides insights into what it takes to transform a corporation in response to completive challenges and won the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for the best book on executive leadership in 1990 and was a finalist for The Academy of Management’s Terry Book Award in 1992. Mike has consulted to senior management in several industries--manufacturing, services (hospitality, professional and financial), consumer packaging, high tech., pharmaceutical and medical technology. Among others he has worked with Becton Dickinson, Hewlett Packard, Ernst & Young, Agilent Technologies, Merck, and Whitbread PLC. He has served on several professional, not-for-profit, and corporate boards. The recipient of professional honors and awards, Dr. Beer is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the recipient of its Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award, a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resource, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and recipient of its Distinguished Professional Contributions Award, and recipient of the Harry and Miriam Levinson Award for outstanding contributions to organizational consulting psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. He and Russ Eisenstat received the 1998 Organizational Development Institute Award for the most outstanding contribution to the field for the development of the Strategic Fitness Process at Becton Dickinson and its application there and in numerous other corporations around the world. He is the 2007 recipient of the Society for Human Resource Management’s Michael R. Losey Research Award. Prior to joining the Faculty of the Harvard Business School Mike was Director of Organizational Research & Development at Corning Inc., a department he founded and led for eleven years. The work of the department led to several innovations in organizing managing and leading the company’s businesses and people.
Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors during this time until his retirement from the Company in April 2024. The company experienced a dramatic turnaround under Chip’s 12+ years as CEO, marked by sustained profitable growth behind purpose-driven leadership. The company’s revenues grew roughly 40% and its market cap increased five-fold during his tenure. The Company returned to the public markets with a successful IPO in March 2019 (NYSE: LEVI). A self-declared “brand guy,” Chip has led many iconic brands during his 45-year career spanning the U.S., Asia and Europe. Prior to joining LS&Co. as CEO, Bergh had a 28-year career at Procter & Gamble (P&G) in roles of increasing complexity in brand management, general management and executive leadership. Among many accomplishments, Chip led the creation and launch of Swiffer; oversaw the turnaround of Mr. Clean and Old Spice; and was the first P&G executive to lead the iconic Gillette blades and razors business globally following P&G’s $57 billion acquisition of Gillette in 2005. Before P&G, Bergh started his career as a US Army Officer (Air Defense) stationed in West Germany at the height of the Cold War from 1979-1983. Bergh joined the Board of Directors of HP, Inc (HPQ), the market-leading printing and personal systems company, in 2015 and became Chair of the Board in July 2017. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Pinterest (PINS). Chip previously served on the Board of Directors of VF Corporation (VFC) from 2008-2011 and the Economic Development Board of Singapore from 2000-2005. Bergh is also a Trustee of his alma mater, Lafayette College. In April 2019, Chip was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine and has been widely recognized for his statements and actions on critical issues like gun-violence prevention, women’s reproductive rights and social and racial justice.
Shai Bernstein is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in both the Corporate Finance group and the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship group. Much of his research focuses on financial issues related to start-ups, and high growth firms, and the interaction of these issues with innovation and entrepreneurial activity. He teaches the Entrepreneurial Finance course in the MBA elective curriculum. Shai completed his Ph.D. in Business Economics at Harvard University. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Shai spent eight years as a faculty at Stanford Graduate School of BusinessPersonal website: https://sites.google.com/view/shai-bernstein/home
JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade. He has served in many administrative roles including Senior Associate Dean. An expert on corporate strategy, organization, and leadership, he has devoted much of his teaching and research to challenges confronting corporate leaders in today’s rapidly changing hyper-competitive conditions. Professor Bower has been active in the development of institutions and programs. Between 1968 and 73 he helped establish the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria. In 1978, he founded the Program for Senior Managers in Government as a joint program of Harvard Business School and the School of Government; and in 1995 he founded the General Manager Program at Harvard Business School. He was deeply involved in the efforts to build the new joint MBA-MPP degree program offered by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. Presently, he is co-leading a project on The Future of Market Capitalism. The first result of the project was a book co-authored with Dutch Leonard and Lynn Paine, titled Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business, published October 2011 by Harvard Business Press. Based on three years of work and interviews around the world, the book draws on discussions with business leaders to identify ten potential disruptors of the global market system. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors explain how business must serve both as innovator and activist--developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels. Bower is the author or coauthor many articles, some 200 case studies and videos and more than a dozen books: The CEO Within: Why Inside-Outsiders Are The Key To Succession Planning was published in November 2007 by HBS Press and was a Financial Times to 10 for that year; From Resource Allocation to Strategy (with C. Gilbert) was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press, and won the Best Book award in 2006 from “Strategy + Management.” . Professor Bower has also consulted widely on problems of succession, strategy and organization with companies here and abroad. He is a director of Anika Therapeutics, Inc., Loews Corporation, and New America High Income Fund. He is a life trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music and has served on many other company and non-profit boards. Professor Bower is a graduate of Harvard University AB '59 magna cum laude, MBA '61 a Baker Scholar with high distinction, DBA '63. Married to Elizabeth Potter, he lives in Cambridge, has two children, two step-children, five grandchildren, and 3 step-grandchildren.
Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate governance and legislative and democratic process, and his interests include strengthening democratic institutions, increasing economic opportunity, and building climate resilience. Caldera is a corporate director and civic and nonprofit leader. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, he began his public service career as an Army officer. He then earned business and law degrees from Harvard University (MBA/JD ’87). He practiced banking and corporate law in Los Angeles before being elected to the California Legislature, where for five years he championed the interests of a multiracial, working-class district centered around downtown Los Angeles. Caldera chaired the Assembly Banking Committee and authored significant legislation on children's health and safety. In 1997, Caldera joined the Clinton administration as COO of the Corporation for National Service; in 1998, he was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Secretary of the Army. As Secretary, he introduced a vision of the Army as a more digital, versatile, and rapidly deployable force prepared to meet 21st century security challenges. He revamped Army marketing programs to reverse recruitment shortfalls, secured increased funding to modernize weapons platforms, and created the first distance education program for servicemembers. Caldera next became a vice chancellor for the California State University system. In 2003, he was named president of the University of New Mexico and appointed to the law school faculty. In 2008, Caldera joined the transition team for President-Elect Obama; he served in the Obama White House as an Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Military Office. Returning to work on educational policy and philanthropy, he led efforts to promote opportunity for talented, low-income students at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. He was also instrumental in helping to launch George Washington University's Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. Most recently, he taught courses on legislative process and the law of democracy at American University’s Washington College of Law. Caldera currently serves on the boards of Meritage Homes Corp., Granite Construction, Inc., and DallasNews Corp. He previously served on the board of Southwest Airlines Co. He sits on the nonprofit boards of the National World War II Museum, The Corps Network, and the Latino Corporate Directors Association. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a coalition of over 550 college and university presidents advocating for U.S. immigration policies that better serve their students, campuses, and communities. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior advisor to Foreign Policy for America. Caldera has published opinion pieces and articles in the Washington Post, USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, the El Paso Times, and Military Times. He is frequently interviewed in English and Spanish on topics including national security, domestic policy, foreign affairs, U.S. courts, federal politics, and elections. Born Luis Eduardo Caldera-Siqueiros to Mexican immigrant parents in El Paso, Texas, Caldera was raised in Whittier, California. He and his wife, Eva, now reside in Bethesda, Maryland, and have three adult daughters.
Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution with longer term goals related to organizational culture, learning, and innovation. He has studied these issues extensively in both domestic and international contexts and has published numerous case studies across a variety of industries including retail, hospitality, financial services, telecommunications and consumer-goods manufacturing. His research has been published in the leading academic journals in his field including Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Management Science. In his most recent work, Professor Campbell is exploring three specific areas related to these broader themes: (1) how new technologies related to data, digital, and automation are influencing performance and risk management practices within organizations and their supply chains; (2) incentive alignment and risk management in organizations which structurally separate major innovation activities from their core business (e.g. "Ambidextrous" organizations); and (3) identification of tools and frameworks that enable broad-based economic engagement and employee ownership in the rank-and-file workforce. He is currently teaching the MBA elective course Strategy Execution which uses fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures to equip students to execute strategy, measure performance, deliver results, and win in any competitive market. Professor Campbell also teaches the required MBA course Data Science for Managers, which gives students the necessary tools to develop a data science organization, evaluate data-driven insights, and productively collaborate with data analysts, engineers, and scientists. In the Harvard Business Analytics Program, he co-designed and co-leads the Operations and Supply Chain Management course, focusing on the role of digital technologies and data analytics in transforming the operating models of organizations and how they connect to their broader supply chains and ecosystems. In addition to his main teaching assignments, Professor Campbell teaches in and chairs a variety of executive education programs focusing on similar topics for global business leaders. Professor Campbell received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and his bachelors degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Redlands (Redlands, CA). Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. on research and policy related to the structure, conduct, and performance of U.S. banking institutions and markets. He is currently serving on the board of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union and as an outside advisor to firms in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Edward Chang (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Inclusion in the MBA required curriculum and Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.Professor Chang studies diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations. The primary goal of his research is to provide evidence-based solutions to managers and organizations wanting to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. He runs large-scale field experiments, analyzes archival data, and conducts online and laboratory experiments to carry out his research.Professor Chang earned a Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Decisions from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., Professor Chang worked as a data scientist for technology startups. #BlackLivesMatter
Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University and a visiting assistant professor of economics at Stanford University. In her research, Professor Coffman uses experimental methods to study individual, team, and managerial decision making, with a focus on the role of gender stereotypes in shaping beliefs. Her work has been published in Management Science, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare. She is an associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. Professor Coffman holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in mathematics and economics from Williams College.
Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, along with being a past Editor of Management Science, and serving on the editorial board of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. Professor Cohen teaches in the MBA Program, Executive Education Program, Doctoral Program, and Special Custom Programs at the Harvard Business School, teaching across Family Enterprise, Investment Management, and Innovation Course Offerings. In particular, he is the Faculty Co-Chair and Designer of the HBS Executive Education course ‘Building a Legacy: Family Office Wealth Management,’ designer of a first-of-its-kind MBA Course in Family Offices entitled ‘How to Not Bankrupt Your Family,’ and Faculty Co-Chair and Designer of the HarvardX Fintech course. He is an award-winning researcher, and best-selling case writer, with works published in the top journals in Finance and Economics. His work is frequently profiled in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, and Forbes. It has also been recognized by numerous National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards, including a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research agenda on Relationships in Finance. He was named a 2008 Pensions & Investments “Cutting Edge Academic,” a Top 40 Under 40 Business School Professor in 2017 by Poets & Quants, and a top teacher at Harvard by CNBC. Dr. Cohen frequently advises government organizations in the US and abroad, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Patent & Trademark Office, testifying before the United States Congress, and advising governments, central banks, inter-governmental organizations, and sovereign ruling families throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia on matters of Innovation Policy, Impact Investing, Climate Change, Pension Structure, and Family Office Management. Through his applied work, Dr. Cohen has consulted with top hedge funds in the industry, and has been awarded numerous practitioner research prizes. He has also appeared as an expert witness in high profile innovation-, insider trading-, and investment-related litigation cases, including those involving the largest global asset management and operating firms. Dr. Cohen received a PhD in finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago in 2005. He earned dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania - a BSE from the Wharton School and a BA in economics from the College of Arts & Sciences in 2001. He has also served on the Advisory Boards of Oppenheimer Funds (acquired by Invesco Investment Management Ltd.), Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade) and Quadriserv, Inc. (acquired by EquiLend Holdings - an industry consortium comprised of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, UBS, JPMorgan, Northern Trust, Blackrock and State Street). Professor Cohen currently resides in Belmont, MA with his wife - Dr. Nicole Cohen - and their six children. In his spare time, Professor Cohen is a competitive powerlifter.
Joshua Coval, Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Area, joined HBS in July 2001. Prior to joining HBS, Joshua was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan Business School where he was on the faculty since 1996. Joshua's research focuses on the efficiency of security prices and examination of rational and behavioral sources of mispricing. His current research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on ratings and unsound pricing models led to the spectacular rise and collapse thereof. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. His research awards include the 2000 and 2005 Smith-Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance. His research has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time, Money Magazine, and The Financial Times.Joshua received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1996.2/09
Thomas J. DeLong is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and the former Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior Department at the Harvard Business School. He is an expert in leader development, organizational and career transformation. His most recent book, “Flying Without a Net”, was recognized by the editors of Amazon Publishing as one of the top ten books written on leadership this century. A number of his cases have been taught around the world in universities and organizations. His most notable cases are: Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley, Erik Peterson at Biometra, C&S Wholesale Grocers and the 1977 Alumni Profiles. Before joining the Harvard Business School Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc, where he was responsible for the firm’s human capital and focused on issues of organizational strategy and organizational change. At Harvard, Professor DeLong teaches MBA and executive courses focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. DeLong has served as course head for the required course on Leadership and Organizational Behavior. He has designed MBA courses focusing on managing human capital in high performance organizations and leading professional service firms. DeLong is currently advising on the development of a course on interpersonal effectiveness for the first year MBAs. DeLong co-authored two books focused on leadership and professional service firms, When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) and Professional Services: Cases and Texts (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003). DeLong has coauthored two Harvard Business Review articles, “Let’s Hear It for B Players” and “Why Mentoring Matters in a Hypercompetitive World.” His forthcoming book, “Teaching By Heart”, focuses on the relationship between leadership and teaching as well as highlights his insights into teaching as craft and art after 45 years in the classroom. Professor DeLong received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Industrial Supervision. He received a post-doctoral fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School; and a bachelor's degree in history and economics from Brown University. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to India. Professor Desai's areas of expertise include tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. His academic publications have appeared in leading economics, finance, and law journals. His work has emphasized the appropriate design of tax policy in a globalized setting, the links between corporate governance and taxation, and the internal capital markets of multinational firms. His research has been cited in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and several other publications. His C.V. is available here. He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, and served as the co-director of the NBER's India program. His general interest publications include opinion pieces on varied topics, including tax policy and the effects of globalization on domestic welfare, in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Tax Notes and The New York Times. He has also written for practitioners in the Harvard Business Review on the role of the Global CFO, on how to reform the U.S. tax system, and how changing incentive systems have contributed to the degradation of American competitiveness. He has testified several times to Congressional bodies, including most recently to the Senate Finance Committee on corporate tax reform and inversions. Professor Desai has taught extensively as an award-winning teacher at HBS and at Harvard University. As a second-year professor teaching finance in the required curriculum, he received the Student Association Award for teaching excellence from the HBS Class of 2001. He subsequently built a second-year elective on International Financial Management, and his many cases on international finance are collected in a casebook published by John Wiley and are taught around the world. Since 1999, he has co-taught Public Economics (EC 1410) at Harvard College. He has also taught seminars and classes on tax policy at Harvard Law School, NYU Law School, and Columbia Law School. Most recently, Professor Desai has been active in delivering various executive education programs at HBS, including the General Managers Program (GMP), on campus and around the world. In 2011, Professor Desai launched, with Professor Joe Lassiter, the first offering at HBS for Harvard undergraduates, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, that is also included as part of the General Education curriculum at Harvard College. In the fall of 2014, Professor Desai began teaching Taxation at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2011, Professor Desai led HBS's doctoral programs, which include the DBA and joint programs with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In that role, he led the restructuring of various programs and initiated a terminal master's program. From 2010 to 2014, Professor Desai was the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, where he was part of the senior management team of the Business School focused on integration with the rest of the University. Specifically, he has launched a program for Harvard undergraduates to collaborate on research with HBS professors (PRIMO), led the course for undergraduates described above, helped launch the Harvard Innovation Lab, worked on campus planning efforts including the design of Tata Hall and served on the newly created Harvard Libraries Board. His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston (1989-1991), McKinsey & Co. (1992), and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations. He is also on the Advisory Board of the International Tax Policy Forum and the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. For Professor Desai's personal page, click here.
Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara built and developed a team that focused on risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, and relative value trading strategies. She started her career on the Citigroup Equity Derivatives desk. Sara holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (2006) and an A.B. in Applied Math from Harvard College (2002) where she was the captain of the Harvard Golf Team. Sara serves on the board of The Park School, and she chairs the investment committee for United Way of Mass Bay and Merrimack Valley. She sits on the advisory board of Match Education. Sara lives in Brookline with her husband and three children.
C. Fritz Foley is the Andre R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean (SAD) for External Relations. As SAD, Foley works with ER to enhance alumni engagement, expand opportunities for lifelong learning, and develop fundraising efforts that advance the School’s priorities while deepening its global impact. Foley previously served as Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Financial Planning, working closely with HBS CFO Richard P. Melnick in advising Dean Datar and former Dean Nohria on the School’s finances, and he continues to participate in the budget process, the multiyear financial planning process, and numerous other financial processes. He also chaired the Network and Community track of the Dean’s Digital Transformation Task Force, which was focused on exploring opportunities to educate and connect our alumni as lifelong learners. Foley’s research focuses on corporate finance and the role of the CFO, and he currently teaches Corporate Financial Operations, a second-year MBA elective course he created. He also co-chairs Finance for Senior Executives and has taught in numerous other HBS Executive Education programs. Foley has published papers on investment, capital structure, working capital management, dividend policy, joint ventures, intellectual property, and corporate tax policy. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2004, Foley taught at the University of Michigan Business School. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University.
Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer. He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (2013) and Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004). He is currently writing a history of large American companies from 1920 to 1980. He was formerly a Newcomen Post-Doctoral Fellow in Business History and a Trustee of the Business History Conference.
David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Leadership & Corporate Accountability, and Ethics required courses. For second year students, he has launched the Elective Curriculum course entitled Leadership Execution and Action Planning. Most recently, he has originated and taught the first of its kind Elective Curriculum course Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (MCAS). Previously, he was a Senior Director of McKinsey & Company where he worked for over 34 years. He was McKinsey's Managing Director of the Boston Office, and the past leader of the North American Organization Practice as well as the founder and leader of the Firm’s Worldwide Merger Integration Practice. During his tenure, David led, and/or had been a member of, every Firm Personnel Committee, as well as a participant in a wide cross-section of McKinsey’s governance forums and committees. David's client work largely focused on helping clients architect and execute major transformational programs that accompany large acquisitions and mergers. He led McKinsey’s efforts for several dozen of the world's largest transactions and has experience with a wide array of mergers and acquisitions over the last decade. In addition to supporting many major M&A transactions, David has led some of McKinsey’s largest organizational turnaround efforts for clients across the globe. David is a member or has been a member of several prominent Boston civic organizations. He has been appointed as a Trustee of the University of Massachusetts and was named by the Mass. State Legislature as a member of the Massachusetts Court Management Advisory Board. He has been an Executive Committee member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Boston Municipal Research Board, and the Inner City Scholarship Fund. David is a co-chair of the Board of Overseers of the Boston YMCA and was previously on the Board of Directors of WBUR (Boston’s local NPR station). In addition, David is a past member of Harvard Business School's Dean’s Advisory Council, and remains a member of the UMass Amherst Foundation, and the UMass Eisenberg School of Business Dean’s Committee. He is the past Chair of the Board of the Park School and a former member of the Dana Hall School and Beaver Country Day School Boards. He was a member of the Boston Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Sustainability, and was an active contributor to the Catholic Schools “2010 School Reform” Committee. He is also a Board member of the Weston Vermont Playhouse. David is on the Board of Directors of Leidos (formerly SAIC), as well as MITRE and J. M. Huber (family owned company), and a Bain Capital BDC Board. He was formerly on the Board of Compuware, and a member of the Shareholder Committee of ZS Associates Consulting. Prior to joining McKinsey, David was an initial member of a small group that became the McNeil Consumer Products Company of Johnson and Johnson and helped launch the Tylenol family of products into the over-the-counter consumer marketplace. David graduated with a BBA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst with high honors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, with distinction. David is the author of three books: Mergers, Leadership Performance, & Corporate Health, Let Me Explain, a biography of his father Eugene Fubini’s life as well as his latest book, Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told (Dec. 2020).
Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management unit. At HBS, she teaches in various executive education programs, including the Program for Leadership Development, Managing Health Care Delivery, Driving Corporate Performance, several custom programs, and courses on the strategic implementation of Value-based Health Care. She has previously taught Executing Strategy in the MBA elective curriculum and Financial Reporting and Control in the required curriculum. She collaborates with Harvard Medical School by teaching and co-directing the Health Care Delivery and Leadership module in the required course Essentials of the Profession II. She teaches in the post-graduate medical education programs Surgical Leadership Program and Leadership in Medicine: Southeast Asia. In her research, Professor Gallani studies performance management systems and explores the interplay between monetary and non-monetary incentives. While she has studied these mechanisms in a broad set of industries, her current efforts focus primarily on health care provider organizations. Her current work examinesmechanisms to align behavior, reward performance, and reduce burnout. Studies on the role of health care provider organizations in improving health equity and address social determinants of health complement her research portfolio. Her work has been published in academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society, and in practitioner-oriented outlets. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Forbes, and Yahoo! Finance. Dr. Gallani holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Michigan State University and a master’s in Business Administration from Central Michigan University. Her undergraduate degree in Business Economics is from the University of Trieste, Italy. Before pursuing her doctorate, Dr. Gallani was a senior manager at Honeywell, where she was involved in business transformation initiatives.
Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of the Business Economics PhD program, and head of the Finance Unit (2018-2021). He was a previous member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Robin's research is in behavioral and institutional finance, with a particular focus on "macro-level" market inefficiencies such as stock price bubbles and predictable financial crises. He has also coauthored research on the role of government and central banks in the debt markets. His research awards include the 2015 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper for an outstanding corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance, the Fama-DFA Prize for best paper published in 2019 in the area of capital markets and asset pricing in the Journal of Financial Economics (second place), and the inaugural 2014 Jack Treynor Prize awarded by the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. Robin received a Ph.D. from Harvard in Economics, and B.S. degrees in Economics and Mathematics at MIT. He has taught in both years of the MBA curriculum as well as the PhD program. CVBehavioral Finance and Financial Stability ProjectLink to List of Outside ActivitiesLink to Google Scholar
Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, he has been active in research and teaching at HBS since 1958. He was also an editor at the Harvard Business Review and later its Editorial Board Secretary and Board Chairman. He is responsible for 16 books, numerous journal articles, several special editions of journals, and over 300 published HBS case studies. Recent publications are Revealing the Corporation with John Balmer (on identity, reputation, corporate branding, etc.) and co-authored articles on “Monarchies as Corporate Brands,” Heritage Brands (a concept he co-created), “Aligning Identity and Strategy” (CMR lead article 2009), a 2011 Journal of Business Ethics article on ethical corporate marketing and BP, “Building and Maintaining Reputation Through Communications”, and a book chapter on “Corporate Communication and the Corporate Persona” (2013). He wrote the award-winning “Corporate Brand Reputation and Brand Crisis Management” in his co-edited “Corporate Marketing and Identity,” a special 2009 issue of Management Decision. He is co-author of a book on arts administration and editor of one on cultural policy. At HBS, he developed the Corporate Communications elective, creating over 40 cases and articles on issues management, corporate sponsorship, relations among business-media-publics, etc. His current research (co-authored) and most recent (2015) article is on the branding and identity of The Nobel Prize. He created and teaches Harvard’s Business of Sports course, is a member of the University’s Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics, has served on the Selection Committee for the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, is on the board of The Sports Museum, and has authored numerous Business of Sports cases and articles. The latter include “Winners and Losers in the Olympics” (2006) and several on sponsorship, most recently (2012) on Sponsorship-Linked Internal Marketing (co-author), and an HBS case on Bank of America’s Sports Sponsorship. He also published HBS faculty commentaries on the Sochi Olympics. Two HBS working papers (2013) examined NBC and the 2012 London Olympics and how MLB clubs have commercialized their Japanese top stars. He has organized seminars on Fifty Years of Change in Intercollegiate Athletics, the Business of the Olympics, Sports in China, and “Fenway Park Comes to HBS,” on the business of Fenway Park for its 2012 Centennial. His comments on the meaning of the Olympics for China were seen by tens of millions in China on CCTV after the 2008 Opening Ceremonies. At Doha GOALS 2012 he moderated a private conference session of global sports leaders (including Lord Coe) on improving the Olympics. He has recently written an analysis of “Nation-Branding via Big Sports.” He received the American Marketing Association’s 2010 Sports Marketing lifetime achievement award for “distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business.” He is past executive director of the Marketing Science Institute and the charter member of its Hall of Fame, and also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising for career contributions to the field. He received the Institute for Public Relations 2009 special award for “lifetime contributions to public relations education and research,” and Lipscomb University’s 2011 MediaMasters award for a “body of [communications] work that stands as a model and inspiration for the next generation.” He was recognized by IE University (Spain) for his pioneering work in corporate communication. He twice was a public member of the National Advertising Review Board for U.S. advertising self-regulation. He has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He is a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society, and he was the first academic trustee of the Advertising Research Foundation and of the Advertising Educational Foundation. He is a past national vice chairman of PBS and an overseer at WGBH and at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), where he was the founding chair of its Trustees Marketing Committee. He served as Alumni Association president of Boston Latin School, America’s oldest school (1635), and conducted its 350th and 375th Founder’s Day ceremonies as magister eventuum; he received its 2005 Distinguished Graduate Award. He is an Honorary Fellow (2012) of Brunel University, where he has been a Visiting Professor and a member of its Business School’s Advisory Board. Known as "the Cal Ripken of HBS," in over 45 years of teaching at Harvard he has never missed a class.
Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the executive program on Driving Digital Strategy at Harvard Business School. He served as the head of the Marketing Unit from 2008-2013 and was the Chair of the General Management Program from 2013-2019. Sunil's current research is in the area of digital technology and its impact on consumer behavior and firm strategy. The primarily goal of his research is to understand how digital technology is disrupting existing industries and how incumbents should transform their businesses in this new environment. His book on this topic, Driving Digital Strategy, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in August 2018. Sunil’s previous research focused on customer management, pricing, and return on marketing investment. His book, Managing Customers as Investments, captures some of the findings from his research on customer management, and it was selected as the 2006 winner of the annual Berry-AMA book prize for the best book in marketing. Sunil has published three books and over 110 articles, book chapters, cases and notes on these topics. His research has been well recognized and his articles have won several national and international awards. Sunil is an advisor to several startup firms and serves on the board of US Foods. He has conducted seminars and consulted with many companies including Abbott, ADIA, Adidas, Adobe, American Express, Amway, AT&T, AutoTrader, Avon, Bacardi, BJ Wholesale Club, Duracell, IBM, GfK Academy, Heineken, Henkel, Johnson and Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, L.G. Electronics, MasterCard, McKinsey & Company, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, NPD Group, Pfizer, PwC, SK Telecom, Sanofi, TD Bank, Telefonica, Turkcell, Unilever and Vodafone. As a business expert, Sunil has frequently appeared on several national and international radio and television programs, such as CBS, CNN, NPR and BBC, and has been quoted in Forbes, The Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Sunil holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship. She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding member of the Diana Group, Hart and a team of four other professors began a collaboration in 2000 and subsequently developed an international research consortium focused on female entrepreneurship. She and her colleagues have co-authored Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses, Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled, and Gatekeepers of Venture Growth: A Diana Project Report on the Role and Participation of Women in the Venture Capital Industry, as well as numerous journal articles, reports, and two edited books. In 2007, the founding team was recognized with the FSF Nutek International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business research. She has also developed more than 60 HBS cases and teaching notes.Hart has significant experience in the retail industry. In 1985, she joined Tom Stemberg as one of the four founding officers of Staples. Prior to that she was Director of Marketing for Star Market, a division of Jewel Companies. She has served as a trustee of Cornell University and Babson College and is a lifetime Cornell Presidential Councillor. She is on the national board of the Smithsonian Institution and the advisory board of the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory. She is a director of several public and private companies including Kraft Foods Inc, Office Depot, and Nina McLemore, Inc. She also serves on Deloitte's Women's Initiative External Advisory Council. Harvard Business School has recognized Professor Hart with the Apgar Award for innovation in teaching and the Greenhill Award for faculty leadership. She has been named to the Hall of Fame by Enterprising Women, CEO (Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization) and the New England Business and Technology Association.
Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He received a B.A. in Political Science at Swarthmore College in 1957 and an MBA (with Distinction) and D.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1966, respectively. His MBA teaching assignments have included the second year courses in Investment Banking, Management of Financial Services Organizations, and Corporate Financial Management, as well as the first year Finance course (where he served as Course Head). For eight years he served as head of the Analytics Program for entering MBAs. He has also chaired Harvard's International Senior Managers Program in Vevey, Switzerland. He taught in the summer Corporate Financial Management Program for senior finance executives for a number of years and chaired that faculty during six of those years. He has taught in HBS Executive Education's Advanced Management Program and Owner-President Management Program. He founded the executive education program Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses and chaired that program for the past fourteen years. Professor Hayes' research has focused on the capital markets and on the corporate interface with the securities markets. He has written numerous working papers and articles on related topics in journals such as the Harvard Business Review, the Accounting Review, the Financial Analysis Journal, The Economic Review, and Financial Management, and has contributed chapters to a number of books. Two articles which he co-authored on real estate finance won the Shattuck Award for the best article on real estate in 1967 and 1972. Professor Hayes is the co-author or editor of seven books, including Competition in the Investment Banking Industry (Harvard University Press, 1983), Investment Banking and Diligence (Harvard Business School Press, 1986), Wall Street and Regulation (Harvard Business School Press, 1987), Investment Banking: A Tale of Three Cities (Harvard Business School Press, 1990), Managing Financial Institutions (The Dryden Press/HBJ, 1992), Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges(Harvard Business School Press, 1993), and Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return (Kluwer Press, 1997).Professor Hayes has consulted for a number of corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served on the Tully Commission in 1994-1995 to examine compensation arrangements for stock brokers. For twelve years, he was Chairman of the Finance Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served for more than twenty years on the Boards of the Eaton-Vance family of mutual funds (where he was Chairman for five years) and Tiffany & Company. Additionally, he served on the boards of Yakama and Telect, Inc. and was on the Advisory Boards of Edward Jones and Arcapita, Inc. He currently serves on the board of the MEDA Fund of EFG-Hermes. He is an emeritus Manager of Swarthmore College and a Life Trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music.
Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis, and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998, after fourteen years on the faculty at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where he received awards for teaching excellence in 1991, 1992, and 1997. He received accounting and finance degrees from Victoria University in New Zealand (1976 and 1977) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1981). He has published widely in the leading academic and practitioner journals, has received numerous research rewards, and is the co-author of one of the leading financial analysis textbooks. He has taught MBA and executive courses on accounting, financial analysis, corporate boards, and ethical leadership.
Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also has more than twenty-five years of major public board experience. Rebecca’s research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy. Her publications include Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors (University of Chicago Press), Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective (Oxford University Press) and Political Economy and Justice (University of Chicago Press). She is also the author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire which was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award. She can be reached at rhenderson@hbs.edu.
James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and has been a member of the faculty of The Ohio State University as well as President of Logistics Systems, Inc. Since 2000, he has authored a blog on the school's Working Knowledge web site. He has served as a consultant to companies in North America, Latin America, and Europe.Professor Heskett was the 1974 recipient of the John Drury Sheahan Award of the Council of Logistics Management, the 1992 Marketing Educator of the Year Award of Sales and Marketing Executives International, and the 2010 Distinguished Career Contribution Award in Services Management of American Marketing Association.Among his publications are books, including authorship of The Culture Cycle (FT Press, 2011), co-authorship of The Ownership Quotient (Harvard Business Press, 2008), The Value Profit Chain (The Free Press, 2003); The Service Profit Chain (The Free Press, 1997); Corporate Culture and Performance (The Free Press, 1992); Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game (The Free Press, 1990); and The Service Management Course (The Free Press, 1991); authorship of Managing in the Service Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1986); co-authorship of Logistics Strategy: Cases and Concepts (West Publishing Co., 1985); authorship of Marketing (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1976); co-authorship of Business Logistics, Revised Edition (The Ronald Press Company, 1974); and numerous articles in such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and others.A member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1965, he has at different times taught courses in marketing, business logistics, the management of service operations, business policy, and service management, general management, and the entrepreneurial manager as well as served as Senior Associate Dean in charge of academic programs.
Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching aims at helping business leaders and organizations determine and deliver on their responsibilities. He also studies what democratic values require for economic policies and institutions. Professor Hsieh teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) to first-year MBA students and Executive Education participants, and serves as Course Head for LCA. At Harvard University, he serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, a Director at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and on the Faculty Committee for the Scholars at Risk Program. Professor Hsieh’s research centers on the question of whether and how managers, organzations, and economic institutions ought to be guided not only by considerations of efficiency, but also by values such as freedom and fairness and respect for basic rights and democracy. He has pursued this question in a variety of contexts, including the employment relationship, the operation of multinational enterprises in developing economies, and the ownership of productive property. Professor Hsieh also studies foundational aspects of this question, examining principles for rational decision making when choices involve multiple values that appear incomparable.Professor Hsieh's work has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Economics and Philosophy, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Social Theory and Practice, Utilitas, and various other journals. He is a past president of the Society for Business Ethics. Professor Hsieh holds a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College, an M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He joined the faculty from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an associate professor of legal studies and business ethics and served as co-director of the Wharton Ethics Program. Before joining the faculty at Wharton in 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School, and he has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the Research School for Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for Technology and Operations Management. He currently teaches the required MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, and has previously taught several elective MBA courses, including Transforming Health Care Delivery and Operations Strategy. Professor Huckman is the Faculty Chair of HBS' executive education program entitled Managing Health Care Delivery. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Co-Chair of the management track of Harvard's doctoral program in health policy. Professor Huckman's research focuses on the linkages between organizational characteristics and operating performance, with an emphasis on the health care industry. He is an associate editor of Management Science and has published articles in journals including the American Economic Review, Harvard Business Review, Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Management Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Professor Huckman also serves as a Trustee of the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as an advisory board member for several private companies in the health care industry. Professor Huckman received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and an A.B. in Public Policy, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to his graduate studies, Professor Huckman was a Principal and Founding Equity Member of Stamos Associates, Inc., a strategy and operations consulting firm serving clients in the health care industry. In 1997, Stamos Associates was acquired by Perot Systems, Inc. Professor Huckman has also worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS. Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and industries, with a special focus on digital ecosystems, AI-centric operating models, and the impact of AI and network effects on strategy and business models. Iansiti is known for his research on the management of innovation, business ecosystems, and digital transformation. His work on business ecosystems and their impact on strategy has been widely recognized and quoted. More recently, his research on digital transformation has received broad attention among both academics and practitioners, and his writings on this subject made HBR’s list of top ten articles of the year for three of the last four years. Iansiti has authored or coauthored several books, including Technology Integration, The Keystone Advantage, and One Strategy. Iansiti joined Harvard Business School in 1989 and taught extensively in the school’s MBA, Executive Education, and doctoral programs. He developed courses on Managing Product Development, Starting New Ventures, and worked with Karim Lakhani to create the Digital Innovation and Transformation course. He is currently responsible for the Digital Transformation course module in the Executive Education Advanced Management Program, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious executive programs. He cofounded several companies, including Model N (NASDAQ:MODN) and Keystone Strategy LLC. In association with the Keystone Strategy team, he has advised most of the largest technology companies, from Facebook to Amazon, and from Microsoft to Intel, as well as many more traditional Global 1000 firms. Iansiti currently serves on the boards of several companies, including PDF Solutions (NASDAQ: PDFS), ModuleQ, and Keystone Strategy, where he is Chairman. Iansiti was awarded a PhD and an AB in Physics from Harvard University.
Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Kang’s research areas are in financial technology and innovation, alternative data, debt contracting, financial intermediation, and auditing. Specifically, he studies how financial technologies and alternative data drive innovation in credit market, create value for business, and address important social problems. His research has been published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Reporting and Review of Accounting Studies. Professor Kang earned a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Southern California. He also holds a M.S. in Statistics from University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Korea University. Prior to his academic career, he spent seven years working as an auditor, credit rating analyst, and corporate banker. He is a CPA and CFA charterholder.
Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he served as Dean from 1977 to 1983. Kaplan has co-developed both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), widely recognized as seminal contributions to management theory and practice. His current research applies these two innovations to important problems at the intersection of business and society. Since 2010, he has collaborated with Michael Porter on the HBS Value Based Health Care initiative, enabling time-driven activity-based costing to become a global standard for health care costing. He and Porter have become leading advocates to replace fee-for-service with value-based bundled payments to motivate providers to deliver superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. In 2021, Kaplan partnered with Oxford professor Karthik Ramanna to create the E-liability carbon accounting method, the first system to accurately measure and report corporate greenhouse gas emissions across corporate supply and distribution chains. The approach, readily extendible to societal and other environmental outcomes, is the first rigorous approach for ESG reporting. In a third research stream, conducted as Palladium thought leader, Kaplan extends the Balanced Scorecard strategy execution for inclusive-growth regional ecosystems. These generate strong financial returns while transforming the socio-economic and environmental conditions of residents in low-income communities around the world. He also continues research and teaching on enterprise risk management with Anette Mikes and Dutch Leonard. Kaplan has authored or co-authored 14 books and more than 200 papers, including three dozen in Harvard Business Review. He has co-authored five books with David P. Norton: The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage; Alignment; Strategy Maps (named as one of the top ten business books of 2004 by Strategy & Business and amazon.com);, The Strategy-Focused Organization (named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the best international business book for year 2000); and The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, which has been translated into 24 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association (AAA) for its impact on practice. He also co-authored Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing with Steve Anderson; Cost and Effect with Robin Cooper; and Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, with H. Thomas Johnson, which received the AAA Seminal Contributions to Literature Award in 2007. Kaplan received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, and honorary doctorates from four international universities. Elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2006, he received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from the AAA, the 1994 CIMA Award from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), and Lifetime Contribution Awards from the Management Accounting Section of the AAA (2006) and the Institute of Management Accountants (2008).
Scott Duke Kominers is a Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics and the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications; Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Crypto, Fintech and Web3 Lab; and an a16z crypto Research Partner. He teaches the MBA elective courses “Making Markets” (M2) and “Building Web 3 Businesses” (BW3B), along with a doctoral course on market design. He is an Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and serves on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Literature. His first book is The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create.Please see Professor Kominers’s personal website at www.scottkom.com. Professor Kominers’s research focuses on market design, developing economic analysis that provides practical solutions to real-world problems. He works at all stages of the economic design process—building underlying theory and technology, identifying new design applications, and working with practitioners to implement solutions to market failures. Since 2021, his research has particularly focused on blockchain-based platforms, crypto, and web3. In addition to academic journals, Professor Kominers has written extensively on these topics in practitioner venues such as Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Opinion. He also advises companies engaged in marketplace development and design, such as Quora, Lunchclub, NCX, and OneChronos, and crypto projects including Applied Primate Engineering, FINE Digital, Hungry Wolves, koodos, 1337 Skulls, and Thingdoms. He serves on the National Leadership Council of the Society for Science & the Public and co-leads one of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity global working groups on inequality. From 2019-2023, he was Vice-Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom).Professor Kominers has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Star Family Fund, the William F. Milton Fund, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and the Oxford Martin School, among others. He received the AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize in 2010, was named a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow in 2015, and won the Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising in 2016 and a Webby Award in 2018. After receiving his AB summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics (with a minor in ethnomusicology) at Harvard University in 2009, Professor Kominers earned his AM and PhD in Business Economics at Harvard, in 2010 and 2011, respectively. From 2011-2013, he was the inaugural Research Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago; then from 2013-2017, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Professor Kominers uses his knowledge of math, music, and puzzles to motivate students in the classroom.
Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM) in the MBA first year required curriculum. In her academic research, Jackie investigates the strategic utilization of diverse knowledge and perspectives within organizations to identify and champion groundbreaking projects and ideas. Her recent work explores how expertise influences the development and evaluations of early-stage projects, and how artificial intelligence can complement human expertise in decision-making processes. She has partnered with organizations such as NASA and Harvard Medical School to design and run field experiments to solve their innovation problems and challenges. Jackie earned a bachelor’s degree in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a PhD from Northwestern University. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Jackie has also worked in sales & trading and equity research at Morgan Stanley and as a finance and operations manager at Microsoft.
Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He studies how high-potential ventures attacking this problem are being financed and how their innovations are being brought to market in different parts of the world. For the HBS MBA and Executive Education programs, he writes cases about the lessons learned from these ventures as well as potential improvements in business practices, regulation and government policy. He works on energy and climate change related issues at HBS as well as in supporting University-wide efforts as a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). After joining HBS in 1996 as a Senior Lecturer, he was appointed a Professor of Management Practice in 1997. He was awarded the MBA Class of 1954 Chair in 2000 and the Senator John Heinz Chair in Environmental Management in 2012. From 2010 until 2015, Joe was Faculty Chair of the University-wide Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard i-lab). Joe's academic and professional work focused on the creation of high-potential ventures --both as new companies and within existing companies-- and the efforts of their managers to turn these ventures into high-performance businesses. At HBS, he taught courses in Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurial Marketing, Entrepreneurial Management, Building Green Businesses and Innovation in Business, Energy & Environment. For Harvard University, he taught courses in Innovation & Entrepreneurship to undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from across the University and its affiliated hospitals. Outside Harvard, Joe was active as an investor in and director of a wide range of both new ventures and public companies. From 1994 to 1996, Joe was President of Wildfire Communications, a telecommunications software venture backed by Matrix Partners and Greylock Partners. From 1977 to 1994, Joe was a Vice President of Teradyne (NYSE/ automatic test equipment) and a member of its Management Committee. Joe joined Teradyne in 1974 as a Product Manager while on sabbatical from MIT. Joe began his career at MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering as an Instructor in 1970 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1972. He developed and taught a course on marine mineral resource economics. He lectured in hydrodynamics, marine transportation, and computer simulation modeling. In a joint program with Harvard Law School, he lectured on marine legal / regulatory policy. His research focused on forecasting economic and environmental consequences of offshore oil and gas development. He was appointed to the MIT-led National Academy of Engineering study on the future of engineering education. Joe received his BS, MS, and PhD from MIT and was awarded National Science, Adams and McDermott Fellowships. He was elected to Sigma Xi.
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In addition, he serves as co-chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. He teaches extensively in executive programs at the Business School and the Kennedy School and around the world in the areas of general organizational strategy, governance, performance management, crisis management and leadership, and corporate social responsibility. His work on leadership focuses on innovation, creativity, effective decision-making, and advocacy and persuasion. His current work in leadership and management is focused on the relationship between governance, accountability, and performance, and emphasizes the use of performance management as a tool for enhancing accountability. He has also worked and taught extensively in the area of crisis management and on issues related to corporate social responsibility. He is the co-author Why Was Boston Strong? (2014) and of Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business (2011), co-editor of Managing Crises (2009), the author of Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending (1984), of By Choice or By Chance: Tracking the Values in Massachusetts Public Spending (1992), and (annually from 1993 through 1999) of The Federal Budget and the States (an annual report on the geographic distribution of federal spending and taxation). Professor Leonard is a member of the American Repertory Theatre Board of Trustees, was a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a 1,000,000-member Massachusetts HMO and is a former director of the Hitachi Foundation and of the ACLU of Massachusetts. He was for a decade a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority and of CIVIC Investments, and was a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Performance Enhancement. He has been a financial advisor to the Connecticut Governor's Office of Policy and Management, to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and to the Central Artery-Third Harbor Tunnel Project. Professor Leonard was a member of the Governor's Council on Economic Policy for the State of Alaska, of the Governor's Advisory Council on Infrastructure in Massachusetts, and of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee's Private Sector Advisory Committee on Infrastructure. He served as chairman of the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Tuition Prepayment Plans, on the National Academy of Sciences Committees on National Urban Policy and on the Superconducting Supercollider, and on the New York City Comptroller's Debt Management Advisory Committee. In addition to his academic studies and teaching, he has been chief financial officer and chief executive officer of a human services agency and has served as a director of public, non-profit, and private sector organizations.
Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is summarized in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The Money of Invention, Patent Capital, and The Venture Capital Cycle.) He also examines policies on innovation and how they impact firm strategies. (That research is discussed in the books The Architecture of Innovation, The Comingled Code, and Innovation and Its Discontents.) He co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a nonprofit devoted to encouraging access to data and research, and has been a frequent leader of and participant in the World Economic Forum projects and events. In the 1993-1994 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year MBAs. Over the past two decades, “Venture Capital and Private Equity” has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School. (The course materials are collected in Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, now in its fifth edition, and the textbook Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship.) He also established and teaches doctoral courses on entrepreneurship, teaches in the Owners-Presidents-Managers Program, and leads executive courses on private equity. He is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor. Among other recognitions, he is the winner of the Swedish government’s Global Entrepreneurship Research Award and Cheng Siwei Award for Venture Capital Research. For information on Josh’s compensated outside activities, please see www.bella-pm.com.
Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (2012) He is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which are Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World (with Colin B. Carter, 2003), Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (with Thomas J. Tierney, 2002), and Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards (1989). Organization and Environment (with Paul R. Lawrence) won the Academy of Management's Best Management Book of the Year Award and the James A. Hamilton Book Award of the College of Hospital Administrators in 1969. Having taught in all of Harvard Business School's educational programs, he was Chairman of the Doctoral Programs, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the Executive Education Programs from 1991-1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1986-1991, Chairman of the Advanced Management Programs from 1980-1985, and prior to that was Chairman of the Organizational Behavior Unit. He is currently Chairman of the Harvard Business School Global Corporate Governance Initiative and Faculty Chairman of the Executive Education Corporate Governance Series. As a consultant, he has had as clients such diverse companies as Applied Materials, Berkshire Partners, Biogen Idec, Citicorp, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, Deloitte Touche, DLA Piper Rudnick, Goldman Sachs, Kellwood Company, MassMutual Financial Group, Tyco International, Shire Pharmaceuticals and Sullivan & Cromwell LLC. He is a member of the Board of Directors of New Sector Alliance as well as The Antioch Review National Advisory Board. He formerly served on the boards of Benckiser (now Reckitt Benckiser), Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc., Brunswick Corporation, Sandy Corporation and CA, Inc.; he also served on the Advisory Board of U.S. Foodservice. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Antioch College and Cambridge at Home, as well as the Global Advisory Board of the Women's Tennis Association. He is a graduate of Antioch College (1955) with a M.S. degree in Business from Columbia University (1956) and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (1964). At Columbia, he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow in Democratic Business Administration. From 1956-59, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Finance Corps. Professor Lorsch is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of digital technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work on software development, where his research reveals the benefits of agile processes and the value of modular designs. Professor MacCormack’s work has been published in a variety of leading journals, including Management Science, Research Policy, Production and Operations Management (POM), IEEE Software, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. His publications have been recognized on multiple occasions for their contributions to innovation management scholarship. He received the 2016 Wickham Skinner Award for the best paper published in POM; the 2013 Maurice Holland Award for the best paper published in Research-Technology Management; and was a finalist for the best paper in Technology and Innovation Management at the 2010 Academy of Management Conference. Professor MacCormack teaches extensively in both the MBA program and Executive Education. He helped to design and subsequently chaired RC FIELD, a new style of MBA course that develops students’ teamwork abilities through experiential learning. He created Entrepreneurship Lab, an MBA elective in which student teams work on customer discovery projects for local startups. His innovations in teaching and course development have been recognized several times. He received the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2013; the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2011; and the Outstanding Teacher Award from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 2009. Professor MacCormack has authored over 50 Cases and Teaching Notes that explore how organizations like Intel, Microsoft and NASA effectively manage innovation. These cases are used extensively by educators around the globe. He has advised and consulted with a variety of technology-based companies and has provided expert testimony on behalf of firms like Amazon, with respect to their software design and development practices. In 2013, he co-founded Silverthread, a startup that provides commercial tools to help organizations assess and improve the quality of their software systems and services.Professor MacCormack received his Doctor of Business Administration from HBS, where he was a recipient of the George S. Dively award for outstanding dissertation research. He holds an SM degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a BSc from the University of Bath in England. While studying at MIT, he was a recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Scholarship. He joined the Technology and Operations Management unit at HBS in 1998. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the future of cities, particularly as aided by the private finance and delivery of public infrastructure projects in both the developed and emerging worlds. His teaching combines infrastructure finance (including public-private partnerships), investing in resilience (notably in the face of sea rise in some areas and drought in others), economic development, and the impact of new technologies in delivering new infrastructure and making old infrastructure more efficient. His most recent book is Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity (Harvard University Press, 2020)Mr. Macomber is the Faculty Chair of the HBS Africa Research Center. He is also engaged in the Business and Environment Initiative and Social Enterprise Initiatives at HBS and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He teaches Finance, Real Estate, Urbanization, and Entrepreneurship courses in the elective curriculum and in Executive Education. Mr. Macomber is the former Chairman and CEO of the George B H Macomber Company, a large regional general contractor. He remains a principal in several real estate partnerships. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA and he serves or has served on the boards of Young Presidents Organization International (YPO), Boston Private Bank, and the WGBH Educational Foundation. Mr. Macomber is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Mathematics in the Social Sciences) and Harvard Business School.
MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of managers trying to execute an Operational Turnaround in a company in distress. He also teaches in the The Global Colloquium on Participant Centered Learning (GCPCL). This Executive Education program is attended by Professors from Business Schools in Asia, Europe and Latin America and focuses on how to teach using the case method and how to develop materials for case based courses. Previously he has been the Course Head for the Required Curriculum course entitled The Entrepreneurial Manager, and also taught the course entitled Running and Growing the Small Company in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA program and the Finance Course in the Required Curriculum. In 2011 he received the Charles M. Williams Award for teaching excellence. The MBA class of 2011 selected Professor Marshall to receive their Outstanding Professor Award. In 2008 he was named an Honorary Professor by Xiamen University in Xiamen, China. He also received the Outstanding Professor Award from the MBA Class of 1999 and the MBA class of 1998. Professor Marshall has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty on two prior occasions. During his first appointment he served as course head for the Production and Operations Management course in the Required Curriculum. He also taught and developed material in Managerial Economics, Decision Analysis, Manufacturing Policy, and Project Management. Subsequently with a part-time appointment as Adjunct Professor he taught the Required Curriculum course, Management Policy and Practice. His most recent job before returning to Harvard was Chairman and CEO of Rochester Shoe Tree Company, Inc. He managed this company during a four-year turnaround and implemented a major reorganization and cost reduction program that improved profitability in the face of declining sales. In 1977 he was a cofounder of Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, a Management Consulting firm. As a principal of this firm he directed studies to analyze the competitive dynamics within the International Steel Industry and the International Iron Ore Industry. He Co-authored 'Economics of International Steel Trade: Policy Implications for the United States' and was one of the American representatives to OECD conference on Future of the World Steel Industry. He also founded Marshall Bartlett Incorporated and while serving as a principal of this firm he conducted strategic reviews for companies with interests in the Health Care Industry, the Food Packaging Industry, and the Steel Production and Distribution Industry. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with High Honors from the University of Cincinnati and his MBA with High Distinction and his DBA degree from Harvard. He is the co-author of three text and case books: New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, McGraw Hill Irwin, 2006; Operations Management: Text and Cases, Richard D. Irwin, 1975; Managerial Economics: Text and Cases, Richard D. Irwin, 1973. He is married to Judith Bartlett Marshall and they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have three children—Tiffany, Christopher and Patrick. He has been a member of the Lexington Board of Selectmen, the Cary Library Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors of the Lexington Golf Club. He is Past President of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and a member of the Governor's Local Government Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Tax Reform and the Governor's Task Force on Local Finance. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Union Corrugating Company, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, Inc. and MARTEST, Inc. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Raymond James Financial, BE Aerospace, and Foodbrands America. In 1995 he served as a member of the U.S. Export Import Bank Advisory Committee. In 1983, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering.
Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative. He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for several companies and VC/PE investment groups including The Engine and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. From 2000-2018, Jim was one of the four General Partners who launched Flagship Pioneering and helped grow the firm to over $3 billion+ AUM. At Flagship, he co-founded, invested in and helped grow a wide variety of businesses and spearheaded the firm’s sustainable technology practice and was involved in myriad U.S. and international efforts to foster entrepreneurship and sustainability. From 2013-2018, Jim also served as President and CEO of Oasys Water, having also been the company’s founding Chairman and Lead Investor since 2008. As CEO, he led the global expansion of Oasys’ award-winning industrial wastewater treatment platform and the sale of the business to their Asian partner in 2018. Jim has long been active in climate, innovation and veteran related policy issues and “post-partisan” politics including supporting servant leaders who are committed to serving in public office. In this endeavor, he serves as a Senior Advisor to New Politics and has advised numerous political campaigns including serving as Campaign Chairman and Manager for MA Congressman Seth Moulton’s (HBS/HKS 2011) 2020 Presidential Campaign. Before embarking on a second career in entrepreneurship and investing, Jim was a Navy F-14/18 pilot with significant combat experience and tours as a TOPGUN Instructor and Officer-in-Charge of the Navy’s Nevada-based Adversary Squadron before retiring in 2008 as Commander. He earned his BS (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum. Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the intersection of Machine Learning, Information Systems, and Management—include the development of computationally efficient algorithms for large-scale statistical machine learning and “big data” analytics. As a data and computational social scientist, Professor McFowland aims to bridge the gap between machine learning and the social sciences (e.g., economics, public policy, and management). His work has been published in leading management, machine learning, and statistics journals, and has been supported by Adobe, Facebook, PNC Bank, AT&T Research Labs, and the National Science Foundation. Professor McFowland earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds Masters degrees in Machine Learning, Public Policy, and in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor McFowland taught at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, venture capital, finance, economics and geopolitics. He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private corporations. He has published books about business activities, the media, American foreign policy, economic policy, and political processes. During the Viet Nam War Mills spent several years in Washington, D. C. helping to control inflation. For several years he was in charge of all wages, prices and profits in the construction industry (then fourteen percent of GDP). Simultaneously he taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Thereafter he taught at the Harvard Business School. He has done consulting and speaking in the following countries: United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Israel, China, Japan, Malaysia, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Vietnam and Australia. Mills earned his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard, both in economics. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan. Throughout his career, Mills has been an influential author. His most recent books are America’s Future (with Steven S. Rosefielde) (2022); Beleaguered Superpower (with Steven S. Rosefielde) (2021); Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (with Steven S. Rosefielde) (2015);Shadows of the Civil War (2014); The Leader’s Guide To Past And Future (2013); Democracy and Its Elected Enemies (with Steven S. Rosefielde) ( 2013); The Financial Crisis of 2008-10 (2010); Rising Nations (with Steven S. Rosefielde)( 2009); and Masters of Illusion: Presidential Leadership, Strategic Independence and America’s Public Culture (with Steven S. Rosefielde) (2007).
Karen Gordon Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from 2009 until 2013, and was a member of the President’s National Economic Council. At SBA, she led a team of more than 3,000 employees and managed a loan guarantee portfolio of over $100 billion. At the height of the Great Recession, she took steps that led to record-breaking years for SBA lending and investments in growth capital. Additionally, Mills’ efforts helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early-stage capital, boost exports, and tap into government and commercial supply chains. She is the author of the book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), as well as numerous other publications on fintech, innovation policy, and the supply chain economy. Mills is a venture capitalist and the President of MMP Group. She is the Vice Chair of Envoy, an immigration services provider, and a Director of several Churchill Capital entities. She is also a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Private Capital Research Institute (PCRI). Mills is a Member of the Harvard Corporation and a past Vice Chair of the Harvard Overseers. Mills earned an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She received the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award for her work in innovation, and is a frequent guest on radio and news outlets, including SiriusXM, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance and CNBC, with recent articles in American Banker, Fortune, Inc., and the Harvard Business Review.
Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective Curriculum course on Strategy in Professional Service Firms. Besides, he teaches courses in leadership, strategy, and professional services in executive education programs. Nanda’s research, teaching, and advisory work focus on leadership and strategy, particularly in the context of professional services. Over the course of his academic career, he has published more than 120 case studies and course notes, several of which have been bestsellers. He has published several articles and is a coauthor of Professional Services: Text and Cases. During his stint as Director at IIMA, Nanda has written on, and participated in conferences and task forces related to, administration of higher education institutions, particularly professional schools. Prior to joining HBS, from 2013 to 2017, Nanda served as Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (https://www.iima.ac.in), India’s premier management institute. During his tenure, the number of chaired professorships increased from one to 16, faculty recruiting was accelerated, executive education grew significantly, and a blended-learning MBA program was initiated. Nanda led a fundraising drive which raised a larger commitment by private donors in the four years of his tenure than in the 50 years prior. The fundraising afforded the institute the ability to intensify research investment, expand programs, and invest in infrastructure. The institute begin a major campus expansion project and restore the iconic heritage campus designed by Louis Kahn. Nanda was also actively engaged in the development of the IIM Act, which recognized IIMs as institutes of national importance and granted them significant autonomy. In addition to his responsibilities as director, Nanda taught courses on ethics and professional services in the MBA program and in executive education offerings.Before joining IIMA, Nanda was the Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He joined HLS faculty in 2008 as a chaired professor with a mandate from to bring the world of practice closer to the world of academia. During his stint at HLS, Nanda established a unique executive education program (https://execed.law.harvard.edu/), which became recognized as the premier executive education program for law firm and corporate counsel leaders. During his tenure, HLS initiated the flagship Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel program, and the Milbank at Harvard associate development program. In addition to establishing executive education, he set up a case studies center at HLS (https://casestudies.law.harvard.edu/), which has become a valuable source of scholarship for law students and practitioners in the profession. Nanda also taught courses for JD and LLM students on leadership in law firms and business and finance for lawyers. Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years before joining Harvard Law School. During that time, he taught MBA courses, doctoral seminars, and executive education courses in general management, leadership, ethics, professional services, and joint ventures.Nanda has advised professional service organizations, including asset management, investment banking, accounting, advertising, engineering consulting, executive search, financial services, human resource consulting, IT consulting, management consulting, legal services, public relations, real estate, and strategy consulting firms. His work with these organizations has spanned advisory board membership, strategic planning, organization design, governance systems, succession planning, compensation systems, recruitment and promotion practices, and leadership development. He has taught globally in executive development programs tailored for professionals, entrepreneurs, and public officials. He has been a non-executive director on boards of public companies, private firms, partnerships, not-for-profit organizations, and academic institutions.Nanda holds a PhD in Business Economics (Harvard), an AM in Economics (Harvard), a PGDM in Management (IIM Ahmedabad), and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (IIT Delhi). Before pursuing his PhD, he worked for five years with the Tata group of companies as Tata Administrative Services officer. He has received C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator designation from Harvard Business School, IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award, Harvard Business School's Henry B. Arthur Fellowship, Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Faculty Fellowship, President of India Gold Medal (twice), and IIMA Director's Gold Medal.Nanda is married to Shubha Nanda, a faculty member at Tufts Dental School, Boston. The couple has a son, Pranav, who is a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. In his free time, Nanda enjoys reading and traveling.
Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information Technology manager in the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company 737 Program. In 1968, he joined the Harvard Business School as an Associate Professor and subsequently co-founded Nolan and Norton Information Technology Consulting Company (NNC) with then recent HBS Doctorate graduate David P. Norton, who became NNC President. After serving as Chairman of Nolan, Norton & Co. from 1977 - 1987, he returned to the faculty of Harvard Business School and became the Chaired William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. In 2003, he became a Harvard University Professor Emeritus, and accepted an appointment at the University of Washington as the first Boeing Corporation Philip M. Condit Endowed Professor of Business Administration. In this capacity, he also was appointed to chair the Boeing AIMS 3-weel in-residence Executive Education Program. In 2009, he became an emeritus professor, at the University of Washington. Professor Nolan has contributed more than a dozen Harvard Business Review articles on the management of information technology, including his article: “Board-level IT Oversight” co-authored with F. Warren McFarlan, (October-November 2007). He is the originator of the 'Stages Theory,' one of the most widely used management frameworks for information technology baselining and strategic planning. He has authored and co-authored books, including Executive Team Leadership in the Global Economic and Competitive Environment a study of executive leadership of the Boeing Corporation published in 2015 as part of the “Routledge Studies in Leadership Research, the book, Adventures of an IT Leader by Robert Austin, Richard Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell published by the Harvard Business School Press and as an audio book by Amazon, which continues to be widely used in both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses on Information Technology (IT) leadership. His current work is further described by a Harvard Business School Working Paper Paper 21-003 “Performance Hacking: The Contagious Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies” (co-authored with Professor Robert D. Austin, Ivey Business School). Professor Nolan continues his research on business transformation, through the process of creatively destroying industrial economy management principles and evolving a set of workable management principles for the information economy: some industrial economy management principles are obsolete, some salvageable, and entirely new principles are needed to guide the management of information as a resource distinctively different from scarce, physical resources. Central to his research is an understanding of information technology's information resource management role in taking an enterprise from “make and sell” to “sense and respond” strategies. Nolan (with Stephan Haeckel) discussed the key ideas behind leveraging general management decisions through information technology in a Harvard Business Review article, 'Managing by Wire (Haeckel, S. H., and R. L. Nolan. "Managing by Wire." Harvard Business Review 71, no. 5 (September–October 1993s. [MultimediaColloquium] [IT, Business Strategy, &Public Policy] [Information Strategy and Reengineering] [Video of Talk: 'The Exploding Interent: Impact on Business & Society']
Michael Parzen is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. He is an applied statistician with extensive experience in data science education and currently teaches Applied Business Analytics as an MBA elective course. Professor Parzen has extensive business school experience, having previously had academic appointments at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. For the last ten years Professor Parzen was Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Master’s Program in Statistics for Harvard University’s Department of Statistics. He is also an instructor in the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) and co-designed the HBAP course Foundations of Quantitative Analysis. Professor Parzen’s research interests are in both statistical education and applicable statistical methods for Missing Data and Non-Standard Regression Modeling. His work has been featured in top Statistics journals such as Biometrika and the Journals of the American Statistical Association. Professor Parzen has consulted and given executive education courses at several major corporations including McDonalds, General Electric and Progressive Insurance. He has also consulted for data analytics start-ups as well as litigation support. Professor Parzen holds a Sc.B. and Sc.M. degree in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, a Sc.M. degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Sc.D. in Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and Tenure. Pisano is an expert in competitive strategy, innovation, and operations. Over the course of his career, Pisano has explored fundamental questions about how organizations innovate, learn, compete, and grow. His research and consulting have spanned a broad range of industries including aerospace, automobiles, apparel, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, entertainment, financial services, medical devices, semiconductors, software, specialty chemicals, and web services. Pisano has published over 100 scholarly articles and case studies and has written six books, including his latest, Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation. Throughout his career, Pisano’s work has won numerous awards including, Strategic Management Society’s Best Paper (2003) and Strategy + Business best books (2006, 2019). He is a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award (2009, 2019) for the best article published in Harvard Business Review, and the inaugural winner of the Clayton M. Christensen Prize (2020) for his work on innovative cultures. In 2020, he received the Greenhill Distinguished Services Award from the Harvard Business School. At Harvard, Pisano has taught MBA, executive, and doctoral courses. In addition to his academic research and teaching, Pisano is an advisor to senior executives at leading companies around the world. He has served on the boards of both public and private companies. He currently serves on the board of Generate Biomedicines. Pisano is also an Academic Partner at Flagship Pioneering. Professor Pisano received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in economics from Yale.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VINCENT PONS, CONSULT HIS WEBSITE.Vincent Pons is Byron Wien Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and he is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).Vincent Pons's research examines the foundations of democracy: how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved. He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter participation, those shaping preferences, the representativeness of results, and the effects of election outcomes on policies and on countries’ economic performance. This work has appeared in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Political Science Review. It has resulted in mentions and opinion pieces in media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, The BBC, Les Echos, and Le Monde. Professor Pons received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a master in economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (joint with the Paris School of Economics and ENSAE) and a master’s degree in political philosophy from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, the environment, and health care. His extensive research is widely recognized in governments, corporations, NGOs, and academic circles around the globe. His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Dr. Porter is, at the core, a scholar, his work has also achieved remarkable acceptance by practitioners across multiple fields. Dr. Porter’s initial training was in aerospace engineering at Princeton University. He then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of Economics. His research approach—applying economic theory to complex systemic problems—reflects these multidisciplinary foundations. In 2000, Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly established the Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness to provide a home for his research. Research & Scholarship Michael Porter’s early work was on industry competition and company strategy, where he was the pioneer in utilizing economic theory to develop a more rigorous understanding of industry competition and the choices companies make to compete. In addition to advancing his home field of industrial organization economics, Dr. Porter’s work has defined the modern strategy field. His ideas are taught in virtually every business school in the world as well as extensively in economics and other disciplines. He continues to write about competition and strategy today. His November 2014 article, How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition, addresses the role of information technology in strategy. Dr. Porter’s original work on industry structure, the value chain, and strategic positioning has informed much of his other research. Dr. Porter next turned to economic development and competitiveness, where his work focused on the microeconomic underpinnings of national and regional economic development. This large body of work includes numerous theoretical and empirical papers on the concept of clusters and their impact on economic performance. He also created the Cluster Mapping Project, which pioneered the rigorous measurement of economic geography and has become the standard in the U.S., Europe, and a growing number of other countries. His theories are widely applied by both government policymakers and economic development practitioners globally. In environmental policy, Dr. Porter proposed the “Porter Hypothesis” in the early 1990s, which put forward the novel theory that strict environmental standards were not in conflict with company profitability or national competitiveness, but could enhance both. The Porter Hypothesis has given rise to several hundred scholarly articles in the literature on environmental economics. Dr. Porter also developed a body of work on the role of corporations in society. His ideas have changed the way companies approach philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. His 2011 paper with Mark Kramer, Creating Shared Value, highlights the power of capitalism as the best route to real solutions to many social problems. Finally, since the early 2000s, Michael Porter has devoted considerable attention to the economics of health care, with a focus on building the intellectual framework for realigning the delivery of health care to maximize value to patients (patient health outcomes achieved per dollar spent). In Redefining Health Care (with Elizabeth Teisberg) and a series of articles, Dr. Porter and colleagues have introduced the core concepts for reorganizing health care delivery organizations, measuring patient outcomes and the actual cost of care by medical condition, designing value-based reimbursement models, and integrating multi-location health systems, among others. This work, known as value-based health care delivery, is diffusing rapidly in the literature and among practitioners. Other Activities & Honors Michael Porter has taught generations of students at Harvard Business School and across the entire University, as well as business, government, and health care leaders from around the world. He serves as an advisor to business, government, and the social sector. He has been strategy advisor to leading U.S. and international companies, served on Fortune 500 public boards, and played an active role in U.S. economic policy at the federal and state levels. He has worked with heads of state from around the world on economic development strategy. Michael Porter has founded or co-founded four non-profit organizations growing out of his scholarly work: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, which addresses economic development in distressed urban communities; the Center for Effective Philanthropy, which creates rigorous tools for measuring foundation effectiveness; FSG, a leading non-profit strategy firm serving corporations, NGOs, and foundations in improving social value creation; and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), which develops global patient outcome standards and risk factors by medical condition and drives their adoption globally. Michael Porter is the author of nineteen books including Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Advantage of Nations, On Competition, and Redefining Health Care, as well as over 125 articles. He has won many scholarly awards and honors including the Adam Smith Award of the National Association of Business Economists, the John Kenneth Galbraith Medal, the David A. Wells Prize in Economics from Harvard, and the Academy of Management’s highest award for scholarly contributions to management. He is also an unprecedented seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. Professor Porter is the recipient of twenty-four honorary doctorates and several national and state honors. He received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce for his contribution to economic development, and has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and other honorary societies. In 2000, he was named a University Professor by Harvard University, the highest recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. For further information, see the website of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (www.isc.hbs.edu).
John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University Professor and Vice Provost at the University of Miami and Dean of Miami Herbert Business School. He is also the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Until 2017, he held a joint primary appointment at both Harvard Business School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Professor of Health Policy and Management. In addition, he served as Fellow of the Harvard China Fund, Member of the Harvard China Advisory Board and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Between 2011 and 2013, Professor Quelch was Dean, Vice President and Distinguished Professor of International Management at CEIBS, China's leading business school. Between 2001 and 2011, he was the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School, teaching Marketing in the Advanced Management Program. He served as Dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001. Prior to 1998, he was the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and Co-Chair of the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Quelch is known for his teaching materials and innovations in pedagogy. Over the past thirty-five years, his case studies have sold over 7 million copies, third highest in HBS history. In 1995, he developed the first HBS interactive CD-ROM exercise (on Intel's advertising budgeting process). In 1999, he developed and presented a series of twelve one-hour programs on Marketing Management for the Public Broadcasting System. He taught "Strategic Marketing Management" to more than twenty classes of the HBS Advanced Management Program and launched an elective course titled "Consumers, Corporations and Public Health" to both MBA and MPH students. Professor Quelch is the author, co-author or editor of twenty-five books, including Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace (2018), Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care (2018), Building A Culture of Health: A New Imperative For Business (2016), Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (2016), All Business Is Local (2011), Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy (2008), Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value (2007), The New Global Brands (2006), Global Marketing Management (5th edition, 2006), The Global Market (2005), Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management (4th Edition, 1996) and The Marketing Challenge of Europe (2nd edition, 1992). He has published eighteen articles on marketing strategy issues in the Harvard Business Review and many more in other leading management journals such as McKinsey Quarterly and Sloan Management Review. Professor Quelch has served as an independent director of twelve publicly listed companies in the USA and UK, including Amerant, Aramark, easyJet, Pepsi Bottling Group, Reebok International and WPP. Currently a non-executive director of Surfin Meta, a fintech, and Mynd.ai, an ed tech. Professor Quelch has also served as a consultant, seminar leader and speaker for firms, industry associations and government agencies in more than sixty countries. In the area of public service, Professor Quelch served pro bono for almost nine years as Chairman of the Port Authority of Massachusetts. He also served as the Honorary Consul General of Morocco in New England and as Chairman of the British-American Business Council of New England. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council On Foreign Relations. He received the CBE for services to British business in 2011, holds an honorary doctorate from Vietnam National University and was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020. Professor Quelch was born in London, United Kingdom. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford University (BA and MA), the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), the Harvard School of Public Health (SM) and Harvard Business School (DBA). In addition to the UK and USA, he has lived in Australia, Canada and China.
Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core First-Year Marketing course (was its head across multiple sections from 1993-1996), and the second-year electives, Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. Currently Rangan teaches the elective course, Business at the Base of the Pyramid. In addition, he teaches in a number of focused executive education programs: Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Professor Rangan's business marketing and channels research has appeared in management journals such as Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Retailing, Management Science, Marketing Science and Organization Science. Rangan has authored or co-authored several books, which include: 1) Going to Market, which deals with distribution systems for industrial products, and 2) Business Marketing Strategy, which presents approaches for managing industrial products and markets over their life cycle. Rangan's latest book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy, presents a unique framework on how to evolve a firm's go-to-market strategy with the changing market needs. In the book Rangan develops the concept of Channel Stewardship and three disciplines of how to implement it in practice. In addition to his interest in business marketing, Professor Rangan is actively involved in studying the role of marketing in nonprofit organizations, and specifically how it influences the adoption of social products and ideas. He has written a number of case studies and articles on the topic. He served as one of the founding co-chairs of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard, whose faculty study and teach the challenges of nonprofit management. He founded the executive program, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, which he continues to teach in. His current research is focused on understanding business models that address the needs and wants of 4.2 billion people living on less than $5/day. The aim of the research is to develop models of success that bring value to the base-of-the pyramid and yet are profitable and sustainable in the long run. Rangan has a Bachelor of Technology from I.I.T. (Madras), 1971; an MBA from I.I.M. (Ahmedabad), 1973; and a Ph.D. in marketing from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), 1983. From 1973 to 1979, Rangan held several sales and marketing positions for a large multinational company in India. Rangan has engaged in a variety of executive education programs, consultancies, and advisory activities for numerous commercial and nonprofit enterprises. Rangan has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1983.
Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the International Economy in the Advanced Management Program (AMP), the HBS program for the most senior executives. Additionally, he co-teaches the Immersion Field Course Italy: Capitalism Past, Present, and Future in the MBA Program and has taught the second-year elective course Managing International Trade and Investment for many years. He received the L.E. Simmons Fellowship for Outstanding Professor Coming from Practice in 2012. Roscini's academic work is centered around the management of international trade, foreign direct investment, global portfolio investment, and the frameworks for risk assessment and mitigation in transnational trading and investment. His publications cover a range of topics, including politics, institutions, and macroeconomics, with a focus on areas such as sovereign debt and fiscal and monetary policy. Before joining Harvard Business School, Prof. Roscini had a distinguished 20-year career in senior roles at three leading US investment banks based in London and New York. His positions included Managing Director and Head of European Capital Markets for Goldman Sachs, Head of Global Equity Capital Markets, and Head of the European Capital Markets and Financing Group for Merrill Lynch, where he was also a member of the Capital Commitments Committee and the Managing Directors Promotions Committee. Finally, he was Chairman of Capital Markets for Morgan Stanley, a board member of Morgan Stanley International Bank, Country Head of Italy, and Chairman of FONSPA, a mortgage bank. In addition to his academic and professional responsibilities, Prof. Roscini serves on the board or the advisory board of public and private industrial and financial companies. He is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and the Atlantic Council and a member of the American Economic Association, National Association for Business Economics, and Centro Studi Confindustria. He is the Co-Chair of the European Economic and Policy Forum at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at international conferences and provides consultancy services to companies on international investments and geopolitical and geoeconomic risks. Prior to his finance career, Prof. Roscini worked as a researcher in nuclear archaeometry at the University of Rome, as a design engineer and project manager with Westinghouse Electric Corp. in the US, and as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a summa cum laude Laurea degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy. He was honored with the title of Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Italian Republic.
Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often irreconcilable political and culture pressures buffeting organizations today. From 2015 until 2023 he served as president of Bowdoin College. Prior to Bowdoin, beginning in 2007, he was a member of the HBS faculty, teaching and writing on issues of leadership, ethics, the Global Financial Crisis, and the role of business in society. In addition, he chaired the Academic Performance Committee and the Conduct Review Board and served as the inaugural chair for MBA Community Standards. He received the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching and the Robert F Greenhill Award for service. He spent the first twenty years of his career in finance at J.P. Morgan, retiring as vice chair, where he led, built and fixed businesses in securities, derivatives and banking, including heading each of the global equities and global investment banking divisions. He was a member of the firm’s senior management. He earned his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Chicago. In 2003, he enrolled in the doctoral program in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania to study issues of race in America, earning his master’s degree in 2005 and his PhD with distinction in 2007. He has served on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. Rose is currently a director of the Bank of America, where he chairs the Enterprise Risk Committee, he chairs the board of trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of basic biomedical research with a $25 billion endowment, and he serves as a director of The Pew Charitable Trusts. As Bowdoin’s president he focused on strengthening the intellectual mission of the College; vigorously championing “intellectual fearlessness”—the imperative of respectful engagement with ideas that challenge our own; significantly expanding the College’s work to create diversity, equity, and inclusion; increasing access and opportunity for students; addressing the student mental health challenge; reimagining and significantly expanding career exploration and development for students; and enhanced the College’s leadership in sustainability. He also strengthened Bowdoin’s financial condition, successfully leading its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever, saw record amounts raised in annual funds, and had one of the highest alumni participation rates in the country. His tenure saw construction of essential new facilities for teaching, learning, research, residential life, and athletics, as well as a new home for Bowdoin’s storied Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. During his presidency, applications to Bowdoin increased by 62 percent. Applications from students of color increased by 60 percent, while those from first-generation students increased by 129 percent. First-year students receiving financial aid increased from 45 to 49 percent, with the College expanding its aid program by eliminating the summer work requirement for many students, increasing aid to middle-class families, and extending “need-blind” admission to international students, making it one of only seven colleges and universities in the nation that is need-blind in admissions, grant only/no loan in its financial aid, and meets the full calculated need of every student. The THRIVE program was also established to address the needs of students entering Bowdoin from significantly under-resourced high schools, and Bowdoin launched an effort to actively recruit veterans and community college students for admission to the College. Three new facilities—the Roux Center for the Environment, the Schiller Coastal Studies Center, and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies—were conceived of and completed during his presidency. Along with the Bowdoin College Scientific Station established in 1936 on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy, they positioned Bowdoin to significantly advance its work and leadership in the interdisciplinary and interconnected studies of the oceans, environment, climate, and the Arctic. Rose led Bowdoin through the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the College successfully delivered on its two goals of protecting the health and safety of the campus and larger Brunswick communities and providing a strong Bowdoin education to its students, while also continuing its work on the priorities for the future. In addition, no employees were laid off or furloughed, salary and benefit cuts were restored well ahead of peer institutions, and budgets were balanced using existing operating reserves without the need for extraordinary steps. In addition, Rose launched the first comprehensive review in decades of board governance, resulting in changes that strengthened the engagement of the board of trustees with the long-term issues facing the College. The diversity of the board—across race, gender, age, professional background, and sexual orientation, among other dimensions—was also significantly increased, as was the diversity of the College’s senior staff.
Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance. In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Professor Salter is author of Innovation Corrupted (Harvard University Press, 2008), which addresses the origins and legacy of Enron’s collapse; co-author and project director of Changing Alliances (HBS Press, 1987), a study of business-government-labor relations the world auto industry; co-author of Diversification through Acquisition (Free Press, 1979), a study of how real economic value can be created or destroyed through corporate diversification; and the author of many articles and papers addressing issues of corporate purpose; competitive strategy; and the coordination, control, and management of organizations. In addition to his scholarly activities, Professor Salter served as Senior Associate Dean for External Relations from 2003 to 2006. He also served as Chairman of the Advanced Management Program and Chairman of the General Management Area (a section of the faculty encompassing the subject areas of general management, entrepreneurial management, and international management). From 1986 to 2006, Professor Salter was also president of Mars & Co., a strategy consulting firm with offices in Greenwich (CT), London, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He is also a former Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a former Trustee and Director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a past Overseer of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, a former Trustee and Treasurer of the Shady Hill School, and a past director of Schlegel Corporation and Christie's, the London-based auction house. He currently serves as a founding director of four bioscience firms: C4T Therapeutics, NextRNA, AI Proteins, and Dynamic Cell Therapies. Active in civic affairs at both the municipal and state levels of government, Professor Salter served as Chair of Newton’s (MA) Citizen Advisory Group in 2008-2009, which was charged with developing a new financial and governance model for this city of 85,000 residents and thirteen villages. During 2020 – 2022, he was Chair of Danielle Allen’s bid for the governorship of Massachusetts. He currently serves as Treasurer and founding Board Member of Partners in Democracy, a non-profit committed to building a stronger democracy. Professor Salter is a graduate of Harvard University where he received his AB, MBA, and DBA degrees.
David Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. Scharfstein has published on a broad range of topics in finance, including corporate investment and financing behavior, risk management, financial distress, capital allocation, and venture capital. His current research focuses on financial intermediation and financial regulation, including research on housing finance, financial system risk, bank lending and funding, and the growth of the financial sector. Scharfstein is currently a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. During 2017, he was president of the American Finance Association. In 2009-2010, he was a senior advisor to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. He previously was a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a director of the M&T Bank Corporation. From 1987- 2003 he was a finance professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Scharfstein received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. from Princeton University.
Joshua Schwartzstein is a Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Professor Schwartzstein is a behavioral economist who focuses on incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions about (in)attention, memory, mental models, and perception into rigorous formal economic frameworks, with the aim of generating novel and practical insights with broad managerial relevance. His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Annual Review of Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. It has also been referenced in The New York Times, Science, and Health Affairs. Professor Schwartzstein holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in behavioral economics, economics, and mathematics from Cornell University.
JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced negotiation to graduate students and senior executives. He also directs the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School, where he serves as Vice Chair for Practice-Focused Research. With co-author David Lax, Jim originated 3D Negotiation, a uniquely powerful approach for analyzing and developing strategy for complex negotiations. He co-founded Lax Sebenius LLC, an active firm that offers negotiation advice to companies and governments worldwide. Sebenius’s private sector career has also included years with the Blackstone Group; in the public sector he served in the U.S. government’s Commerce and State Departments. From the earliest days of his professional career, he has played key roles in complex negotiations. For example, Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of The Blackstone Group, now the world’s largest alternative asset manager with $1.1 trillion in AUM, wrote that "We faced some of Blackstone's most challenging and delicate negotiations during its startup period. Over those early years, we worked daily with Jim, who was very helpful with critical deals at key moments Jim’s approach makes major differences in significant transactions.” Former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, recently (2018) attested to Jim’s standing in the negotiation field when he wrote "Given his familiarity with the relevant academic research and extensive experience in high-stakes dealmaking, Jim . . . possesses a deep understanding of complex negotiations [he] has produced a superb and practical analysis of how to forge worthwhile agreements in complex situations.” Since 2001, he has chaired the annual Great Negotiator Award program at Harvard, which has intensively engaged with negotiators such as Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Lakhdar Brahimi, George Mitchell, Charlene Barshefsky, Juan Santos, Christiana Figueres, and Bruce Wasserstein. With his Professors Nick Burns and Bob Mnookin, he co-directs a project that has conducted lengthy videotaped interviews with nine former U.S. Secretaries of State—Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Rex Tillerson—about their most challenging negotiations. Jim often speaks to senior executive audiences about negotiating lessons and insights from the Great Negotiators and Secretaries of State. He is the author or co-author or editor of five books including 3D Negotiation (Harvard Business School Press), The Manager as Negotiator (Free Press), Negotiating the Law of the Sea (Harvard University Press), and, most recently, Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level (HarperCollins). Together with these books, his published output includes more than 250 items including articles, case studies, and negotiation simulations. He holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt in mathematics, an M.S. from Stanford’s Engineering School, and a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard. He is married to Nancy Buck; their children are Zander, Alyza, and Isaac.
Arthur Segel is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and previously was a professor in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units teaching graduates and undergraduates and writing about issues in real estate accounting, finance, valuation, investment, development, affordable housing, slum redevelopment, sustainability, infrastructure and urbanization, co-developed an on-line alternative investment finance course with Professors Ivashina and Cohen, co-taught January short intensive programs on failure, spirituality and leadership as well as taught or co-taught Immersion courses in Bombay, NYC, Boston, London, Havana. Professor Segel has taught Harvard College Freshman Seminars on the Future of Cities and co-taught with Professor Schrag on Inequality. Professor Segel has been on the faculty since 1996. Prior to being a Professor at Harvard Business School, 1982 Segel was a co-founder and owner of TA Realty for 20 years. TA Realty is a United States-based real estate advisory, investment and development firm active in over thirty markets and through 2020 has invested over $30 billion. Prior to founding TA Realty, Professor Segel was a project manager and was vice president for finance/accounting at Boston Properties; prior to which Segel was deputy for accounting/finance of Massport under Governor Michael S. Dukakis for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Professor Segel co-founded with Professor Moss, The Tobin Project, in 2005, which was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award for an Organization for its work on inequality in 2013. Also in 2005, Segel co-founded a firm involved in real estate investment, development and finance in over 20 markets in India. In 1998, Segel co-founded the Brookline Innovation Fund. Segel is a trustee of The Urban Institute in Washington D.C., a Life Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Temple Israel of Boston, a Patron and Trustee of Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild family foundation. Segel serves on advisory committees for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the SRB Corporation, elected as Brookline Town Meeting Member, Brookline Fiscal Advisory Committee, High Vista Advisor, and previously served as a trustee for the Hebrew Union College Institute for Religion (NY), the Brookline Foundation, the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps and NPR. Professor Segel was awarded the Robert F. Greenhill Award at Harvard Business School; named one of the 30 most influential players in real estate in the world by Private Equity Real Estate; and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Segel is a graduate of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in its Public Management Program. From 2017 through 2019, Professor Segel attended the Harvard Divinity School with Special Student Status.
Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how, if lost, they can restore it. Sandra studies trust in action and how it affects the success of leaders and companies in innovating with AI and new technologies, restructuring and leading turnarounds, managing sustainability and ecosystems, entering and exiting markets, and navigating controversy. Sandra is a member of the Edelman Trust Institute Advisory Board, advising them on Trust Barometer research. She also collaborates with Deloitte on TrustIQ , a proprietary tool that measures key elements of trust in major corporations and public sector organizations. At Harvard, Sandra studies how organizations become trusted and the vital role leaders play in building and restoring trust. She also studies workforce change and best practices in managing layoffs and restructuring. She has authored 110 business cases, technical notes, video interviews, teaching notes, and three books. Sandra was a business executive for 20 years before joining Harvard. As a senior executive at Fidelity Investments, she measured customer loyalty, redesigned back-office operations, and improved the quality of service. In retailing, she helped build new businesses. Sandra has served on corporate and nonprofit boards and as Chair of the Better Business Bureau. Sandra’s research has been featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, Barron’s, Forbes, Business Insider, CNBC, NPR, and Marketplace.
Boris Vallée is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit. He teaches Real Property in the MBA elective curriculum, and previously taught the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor’s Vallée’s research traces the motives behind and the effects of financial innovation in recent decades, focusing on innovative products, processes and objectives. He pursues this line of inquiry through empirical studies of corporate finance, household finance, public finance, and financial institutions, developing novel data sets and measures. His work has been cited by The Economist, the Financial Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe. He holds a Ph.D. in finance and a M.Sc. in management, both from HEC Paris, and is a CFA Charterholder. Before beginning his doctoral studies, Professor Vallée was an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London.
Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and competitive advantage, the role of leaders in strategy, and the interaction between strategy and organization more broadly. He has also researched extensively the role of fundamental disagreement in organizations, with particular attention to its role in culture and managerial vision, and its effect on mergers and acquisitions. Professor Van den Steen has served as faculty chair of several HBS executive education programs and as course head of the first-year Strategy course at HBS, and has developed the second-year elective Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. Prior to joining the Business School, Professor Van den Steen worked in consulting, at Arthur D. Little - founded by an uncle of Roy Little - and McKinsey & Company, and was on the faculty of MIT. He holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the KULeuven (Belgium), an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family.
Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management and capital markets. A member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1998, Professor Viceira has taught an array of Finance courses in the MBA program, Executive Education programs, and the Business Economics Ph.D. program, and has served in several leadership positions. He is currently the instructor for the Investment Management for Professional and Personal Investors course in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program, co-chair of the HBS-CFA Institute Investment Management Program for leaders of asset management firms, and co-chair of the Asset Management Conference for HBS Alums. He also serves as co-chair of the NBER-NBIM Conference on New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management. Prof. Viceira has developed extensive research and case writing in long-term asset allocation, asset pricing, fixed income markets, household finance, international finance, the management and organization of large institutional investors, and innovation and disruption in the money management industry. He is currently studying the implications of financial globalization for long-term asset management; the impact of monetary policy on bond and equity market risks; the disruptive power of fintech in the asset management industry; the growth in index investing and in activist investing, and the impact of such growth and the interaction between the two on capital markets and corporations. Professor Viceira is the author of multiple journal articles published in leading academic and practitioner-oriented finance journals, book chapters, Harvard Business School case studies, and the book Strategic Asset Allocation (with John Y. Campbell). His research has received several awards recognizing its contributions to the theory and practice of asset management, including the 2002 TIAA-CREF Paul Samuelson Award, the 2005 Graham and Dodd Award by the CFA Institute, the 2004 Prize for Financial Innovation of the Q-Group, Inquire Europe, and Inquire U.K., and more recently the 2014 Arthur Warga Award by the The Society for Financial Studies. Professor Viceira holds a bachelor degree from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, and a M.A. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute in New York. Professor Viceira is currently a member of the Asset Allocation Advisory Board at NBIM, the manager of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Norway, a Governor (Public) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Harvard University Trustee of the Charles E. Cotting Trust, a Trustee at Milton Academy. He is also a past trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation and Belmont Day School, among others. He also serves as director, external consultant, and advisor to asset management firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, international organizations, insurance companies, and not-for-profit organizations.
Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His principal consulting activities have been concerned with foreign investment policy and with negotiations between foreign investors and host governments. His research interests include multinational enterprises; international business-government relations; foreign investment in developing countries; and foreign investment by firms from developing countries. He was the Coordinator for Indonesia Projects, Harvard Institute for International Development, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1994-5. His associations include: Fellow -Academy of International Business, member - Foreign Advisory Board - Lahore Business School, and member - Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Wells received a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School.
Emily Williams is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit, teaching the Finance II course to MBA students. Professor Williams’ research focuses on financial intermediation, traditional intermediation and payments, the use of technology in financial intermediation and the financial services offered to the underbanked. Professor Williams earned her MA in Mathematics from Warwick University, and after working in various industry roles received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and later her PhD in finance at London Business School in 2017.
Jeremy Yang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Marketing in the MBA required curriculum. He develops data products for advertising, targeting, and pricing decisions in his research. These algorithms are typically guided by some basic economic or behavioral principles and implemented with techniques in machine learning and causal inference. He is also broadly interested in the creator economy. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is also affiliated with the Harvard Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Instituate, the Data Science Initiative, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. His work has received several recognitions including an INFORMS Annual Meeting Best Paper Award, American Statistical Association Dissertation Proposal Award, and MSI Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Proposal Award.
Julian Zlatev is an assistant professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. He teaches the second-year Negotiation course. Professor Zlatev’s research interests include ethics and morality, trust, impression formation, negotiation, and prosocial behavior. He earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University and a B.A. in psychology from Northwestern University. His work has been published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics and the World Bank Research Observer and Vice-President of LACEA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economist Association and a co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Growth. She is also a Faculty Research Associate in the NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics (IFM) Program and the International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program, CEPR IFM program and co-Chair of the NBER’s Economics of Supply Chains conference, a joint effort with the Department of Homeland Security. Professor Alfaro is the author of multiple articles published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of International Economics, and Harvard Business School cases related to the field of international economics and in particular international capital flows, foreign direct investment, sovereign debt, trade, and emerging markets. She is a member of the Latin-American Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF), the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) policy committee, Faculty Associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, among others. Professor Alfaro has taught in the first year and second year of the MBA program, the doctoral program, the General Management Program, the Program for Leadership Development, and in other executive education offerings. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA), where she received the Dissertation Fellowship award. She received a B.A in economics with honors from the Universidad de Costa Rica and a 'Licenciatura' from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile where she graduated with the highest honors. She was awarded a Francisco Marroquin Foundation scholarship.
Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and experience the transition to retirement. Previously, her 45-year program of research on how the work environment can influence creativity and motivation yielded a theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating innovation. More recently, she researched and published on how life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Her current research program focuses on psychological and social aspects of the retirement transition. Teresa’s work has earned several awards: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management’s OB Division (2018); the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2017); the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (2018); the Center for Creative Leadership Best Paper Award (in Leadership Quarterly) (2005); and the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (1998). In 2020, she was named one of the top 50 scholars, by citation count, in business/management (PLOS Biology). She has presented her theories, research results, and practical implications to various groups in business, government, and education, including Apple, IDEO, Procter & Gamble, Roche Pharma, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, the Society for Human Resource Management, Pfizer, and the World Economic Forum. In addition to participating in various executive programs at Harvard Business School, she created the MBA course Managing for Creativity, and has taught several courses to first-year MBA students. Teresa was the host/instructor of Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, a 26-part instructional series originally produced for broadcast on PBS. She was a director of Seaman Corporation for 25 years, and has served on the boards of other organizations. Teresa is the author or coauthor of several books, including Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, The Progress Principle, Creativity in Context, and Growing Up Creative, as well as over 150 scholarly papers, chapters, case studies, and presentations. Her papers include: Transitioning into Retirement (Work, Aging, and Retirement); What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? (Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes); Understanding Retirement Requires Getting Inside People's Stories (Work, Aging, and Retirement); The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement while Retiring (Academy of Management Perspectives); Creativity (Annual Review of Psychology); Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing across Difficult Terrain (Academy of Management Journal); The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work (Journal of Applied Psychology); Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support (Leadership Quarterly); and Affect and Creativity at Work (Administrative Science Quarterly). She has also published several articles in Harvard Business Review. Personal Website: www.teresaamabile.com
Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new products and innovations diffuse. He has studied the introduction decision of television sets under energy efficiency standards, the barriers that consumer packaged goods brands face when rolling out new products, and the role of in-game purchases in driving the usage of video games.Professor Amano received a B.A. in economics from Harvard College, as well as a M.A. in economics and Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University. He has previously taught at Columbia Business School. My research agenda is twofold . First, I am interested in uncovering ways to merge economics and marketing with “big data” and new methods , in order to deepen our understanding of consumer behavior and marketing. The second strand of my research is driven by the question of how marketing influence s the diffusion of technological innovation . I focus in particular on markets that have special implications for the envi ronment.
Julia Austin is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship where she currently teaches Startup Operations. Julia is also a certified Executive Coach, board member, startup advisor and angel investor as well as the founder of Good For Her, a non-profit community for women founders that fosters their growth as they navigate their entrepreneurial journeys. Prior to her current endeavors, Julia was the CTO at DigitalOcean, VP of Innovation for VMware, Inc., the VP of Engineering at Akamai Technologies and has held technical management and consulting positions at several other startups and mature companies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Boston University.
Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity. Her work has been published in a variety of leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Research Policy and Harvard Business Review. She has won numerous awards for research: most recently, she received a Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University Munich in 2014, and in 2015 was named the Distinguished Scholar of the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) division of the Academy of Management. Carliss has a Doctorate and MBA from Harvard Business School, and an SB in Economics from MIT. She studied finance under Robert C. Merton, Franco Modigliani, and John Lintner. At Harvard Business School, she developed and taught Mergers & Acquisitions, a second-year elective MBA course, and presently teaches Finance 2, a first-year required course. She has written over 50 cases and notes for MBA and executive classes. In 2014, her case on Roche’s Acquisition of Genentech was named the best case in Finance, Accounting and Control by the Case Centre. Also at Harvard Business School, she has been a Director of Research, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning, and head of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. Within Harvard University, she has been on the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Social Responsibility. She has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards.
Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a part of the Strategy Unit. In the MBA program, he teaches in the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business. He also teaches in several executive education programs, including Owner/President Management, Family Office Wealth Management, and Families in Business. He is the Faculty Cochair for Family Office Wealth Management. He was formerly an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he taught MBA courses on Family Business Management and Managing Conflict in Family Business. Josh’s interests are in how to build businesses to last for the long-term, how to manage conflict, and how ownership affects company goals and strategies. He has a particular focus on family businesses. He has written extensively for Harvard Business Review and is co-author of their Family Business Handbook. He has also written for The Huffington Post, Trust & Estates Magazine, and Family Business Magazine, among others, and has been cited in The New York Times and Forbes. He is the author of a book about international relations, Great Power Peace and American Primacy: The Origins and Future of a New International Order. Josh is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at BanyanGlobal, a leading advisor to family enterprises. For the last 15 years, he has worked closely with families who own operating companies, family foundations, and family offices together. He helps these families to define their purpose as owners and to establish the structures, strategies, and skills they need to accomplish their goals. Prior to Banyan, he worked at Bain & Company and the Bridgespan Group. A graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, Josh received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in International Relations with Honors. He also holds a Masters with Distinction in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. When he is not teaching, researching, or advising, Josh and his wife Beth most enjoy spending time with their twins Eloise and Charlie, who in their endearing ways provide endless opportunities for developing fresh insights into family dynamics.
Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). As a practicing manager prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, he worked as a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, as a management consultant in McKinsey's London office, and as the country general manager of Baxter Laboratories' subsidiary company in France. After joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1979, his research interests focused on the strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in large, complex corporations, and on the organizational and managerial impact of transformational change. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities at HBS, he assumed various leadership roles at the school. He headed the International Senior Management Program, chaired the School’s General Management Unit, led the Program for Global Leadership, and directed the Humanitarian Leadership Program. He has published eight books, including (co-authored with the late Sumantra Ghoshal) Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential business books of the century) and The Individualized Corporation (named one of the Best Business Books for the Millennium by Strategy + Business magazine). Both books have been translated into more than ten languages. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 articles which have appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. His more than 100 case studies have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, making him the best-selling case author in the history of Harvard Business School. He has been elected as a Fellow of three professional organizations: the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the Strategic Management Society. In 2001, the Academy Management’s International Division honoured him with its first Distinguished Scholar Award. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he maintains ongoing research interests in the organization and management of multinational enterprise, the impact of radical corporate transformational change, and the management of human and intellectual capital for competitive advantage. He has consulted and served on the board of many large international companies, and currently is actively contributing to several nonprofits in the US, Asia, and Australia.
Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. She currently teaches the second-year Power and Influence course and previously taught the first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course in the MBA program. She also teaches in the doctoral program and in executive education offerings. Professor Battilana studies the politics of change in organizations and in society. Her research examines the processes by which organizations and individuals initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norms in a field of activity. Such divergent changes are particularly challenging to implement because they require not only breaking with existing norms, but also convincing others to rally behind the change. Professor Battilana’s research aims to elucidate what it takes to initiate divergent change, and how to succeed in its implementation. To do so, she has developed two streams of research that address divergent change at different levels of analysis. The first focuses on understanding the conditions that enable individuals to initiate and implement divergent change within their organizations. The second examines how organizations themselves can diverge from deeply-seated organizational forms, which, as they become taken-for-granted over time, prescribe the structures and management systems that organizations in a given sector ought to adopt. Studies in this stream reveal the role of hybrid organizing in this process—defined as the activities, structures, processes and meanings by which organizations make sense of and combine multiple organizational forms. Professor Battilana's research focuses on a specific instance of hybrid organizing-social enterprises- that diverge from the established organizational forms of both typical corporations and typical not-for-profits by combining aspects of both at their core. Her work aims to understand how these hybrids can sustainably combine aspects of corporations and not-for-profits at their core and how they can achieve high levels of both social and commercial performance. She has articles published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly M@n@gement, Management Science, Organization, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research in Organizational Behavior, and Strategic Organization. Her research has been featured in publications like Businessweek, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She was also previously a regular contributor to the French newspaper Le Monde. A native of France, Professor Battilana earned a B.A. in sociology and economics, an M.A. in political sociology and an M.Sc. in organizational sociology and public policy from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. She also holds a degree from HEC Business School, and a joint Ph.D. in organizational behavior from INSEAD and in management and economics from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the Chairman of the Board of FSDH Holding Company Ltd which includes among its holdings a merchant bank, an asset management company, a pension fund administration company and a securities trading company. Hakeem also chairs the Board of Chocolate City Group, a leading entertainment conglomerate in Nigeria and he is the main stakeholder in and Chairman of the Board of Duval Properties Ltd, a real estate company engaged in a mixed use development in Abuja, Nigeria. He was recently appointed an Expert Global Advisor and member of the International Advisory Group of Equinor the Norwegian energy company previously known as Statoil. More recently, in recognition of his role in bringing the United Arab Emirates telecommunications firm, Etisalat, to Nigeria, Mr. Belo-Osagie won the “Telecom Entrepreneur of the Year” award at the 10th annual Nigerian Telecoms Awards. A successful entrepreneur and businessman, Mr. Belo-Osagie has been a key player in the Nigerian economy for over three decades through his participation and development of several businesses in the private sector, particularly in energy, finance and telecommunications. Internationally, Mr. Belo-Osagie was recently appointed as a member of the global board of advisers for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the preeminent independent, nonpartisan think tank in America, and is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institute. An advocate for higher education, Mr. Belo-Osagie is a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Board. Additionally he serves as Chairman of the board of trustees of Harvard’s Centre for African Studies where he and his wife have endowed the Hakeem and Myma Belo-Osagie Distinguished African Entrepreneurship Lecture series. He is also a member of Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and the New York University President's Global Council. He was the founding chairman of Junior Achievement Nigeria; Junior Achievement is the world’s oldest and largest non-profit economic education organization operating in 112 countries. He is also the Chair of the Nigerian National Committee for the United World Colleges (UWC), a program, of which he is an alumnus, which assists UWC colleges in identifying deserving scholarship candidates for a two year International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. Hakeem has been a member of the HBS community for many years, serving as a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Board and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Harvard’s Centre for African Studies. He has also hosted numerous lecture series and will facilitate the new “Africa Rising” SIP for a third time next year. He is the faculty lead for the FIELD Global Immersion program to be held in Accra.
Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum. Ted retired in 2016 as a managing director of Bain Capital, one of the world’s leading alternative investment firms, after nearly 20 years as a private equity investor. Ted was based in London for the majority of his career, where his primary focus was private equity investments supporting consumer-facing businesses in Europe. Ted held a number of leadership responsibilities at Bain Capital over the course of his career, including coordinating the European investment committee and recruiting. Ted has broad investment experience, including high-growth situations, international expansions, founder transitions, and operational turnarounds. He has worked across Europe and in North America, South Africa and Japan. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Ted worked as a consultant with Bain & Company in the United States. He graduated from Harvard Business School, as a Baker Scholar and Siebel Scholar, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard College. Ted also attended the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) as a Jean Monnet fellow.
Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in Turkey this year, he is the faculty chair of two executive programs, Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage and Designing and Executing Strategy. In the past, he has served as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Chairman of the Program for Management Development, Chairman of the Competition and Strategy Area, Chairman of the Managerial Economics Area, Course Head for Managerial Economics, and Associate Director of Research. In the MBA program, he created a course, Competing in the Information Age, which focused on the impact of the Internet on business strategy. Professor Bradley's research interests center on the impact of technology on industry structure and competitive strategy. His most recent book, The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World, published by Harvard Business School Press (2005), argues that cheap and abundant bandwidth has the potential for creating new capabilities, markets, and strategies that will forever alter the business landscape. An earlier book, Sense and Respond: Capturing the Value in the Network Era, Harvard Business School Press (1998), dealt with the shift from “make and sell” strategies to “sense and respond” strategies driven by the explosion of information technology and the use of the Internet. Related books, Globalization, Technology, and Competition, Harvard Business School Press (1993), dealt with the fusion of computers and telecommunications in the 1990s, and Future Competition in Telecommunications, Harvard Business School Press (1989) delt with the emerging competitive landscape for telecommunications. He has written three other books: Quantitative Methods in Management, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Applied Mathematical Programming, Addison-Wesley, Inc., and Management of Bank Portfolios, John Wiley and Sons as well as numerous case studies and articles for academic journals.In his outside activities, Professor Bradley has worked on a variety of strategy initiatives in both the private and public sectors. He serves as a member of the board of directors of CIENA Corporation, Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, the Risk Management Foundation, Inc. and Zuma360 Software, Inc. as well as on several advisory boards of nonpublic companies. In the past, he was a member of the board of directors of i2 Technologies, Inc., Roadmaster Industries, Inc., and XcelleNet, Inc. and also a member of the editorial board of the Harvard Business Review.Professor Bradley received his BE in Electrical Engineering from Yale University where he was elected to TAU BETA PI, and his MS and PhD in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was with the Center for Exploratory Studies of the IBM Corporation. Click Here to view Professor Bradley's Broadband Site
Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How to talk gooder in business and life," an experiential course designed to help students hone four core conversational skills through practice (TALK): Topic selection, Asking questions, Levity, and Kindness. She has also taught FIELD Foundations in the MBA required curriculum (RC), Negotiation in the MBA elective curriculum (EC), Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior in the PhD curriculum, and is affiliated with the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. In her research, Professor Brooks studies the psychology of conversation--why we say things we shouldn't and don't say things we should--and how emotions how we think and interact with others, particularly in the workplace. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Economic Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American. Professor Brooks holds a Ph.D. in Decision Processes from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Finance from Princeton University.
Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and nonprofit management. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the weekly “How to Build a Life” column. Brooks is the author of 12 books, including the 2022 #1 New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. Brooks began his career as a classical French hornist, leaving college at 19, touring and recording with the Annapolis Brass Quintet and later, the City Orchestra of Barcelona. In his late twenties, while still performing, he returned to school, earning a BA through distance learning at Thomas Edison State University, and then an MA in economics from Florida Atlantic University. At 31, he left music and earned an MPhil and PhD in public policy analysis from the Rand Graduate School, during which time he worked as an analyst for the Rand Corporation’s Project Air Force, performing military operations research analysis. Brooks then spent the next 10 years as a university professor, becoming a full professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in his seventh year out of graduate school and occupying the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government. During this decade, Brooks taught economics and nonprofit management, and published 60 peer-reviewed articles and several books, including the textbook “Social Entrepreneurship” (2008). In 2009, Brooks became the 11th president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, DC, one of the world’s most influential think tanks. Under his leadership, the Institute more than doubled its annual revenues, deepened its outreach to leaders across the ideological spectrum, and expanded its research portfolio to include work on poverty, happiness, and human potential. He left in 2019 to join the HBS faculty.
General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, Cross Fitter and fan of all Boston sports. Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as Co-Founder and General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Boston and New York City and over $1 billion under management across six seed funds and nine network funds. “Unicorn” portfolio companies include BitSight, Bowery, Chief, FalconX, Habi, MadeiraMadeira, and MongoDB. He studies lean startups as well as strategy and management challenges for founders. Jeff’s investment interests and entrepreneurial experience are in blockchain, consumer, e-commerce, machine learning, and mobile start-ups. On behalf of Flybridge, he has led investments in dozens of companies, including bloXroute, Bowery Farming, BrightHire, Codecademy, FalconX, Habi, Infracommerce (BVMF: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, and Open English. Jeff is the cofounder of The Graduate Syndicate, a pre-seed fund that invests in recent Harvard graduates. Jeff has authored two books: one for startup joiners, Entering StartUpLand, and one on venture capital and entrepreneurship, Mastering the VC Game, to provide entrepreneurs an insider’s guide to financing and company-building. Both books have been hailed by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, TechCrunch and The Financial Times as essential guides for entrepreneurs. Jeff is an active community member, serving as board chair and co-founder of Hack.Diversity, a talent development program for Black and LatinX technologists, as well as a board member at educational non-profit Facing History and Ourselves and co-founder and board chair of LEADS, an economic and leadership development program for diverse Gateway City leaders. Jeff holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.
The Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy, DeGroote School of BusinessGoran Calic is the Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, where he teaches in the Executive Education and MBA programs. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in Economics, from Purdue University's Krannert School of Management. He teaches, researchers, and advises on strategy, innovation, and creativity. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Nature: Scientific Reports, British Medical Journal, and other top journals.
Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint MS/MBA program in the life-sciences, the Faculty Chair of the executive education program in the life-sciences, chairs the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab committee, and serves on the selection committee of the Blavatnik Fellows. Professor Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Professor Chandra's research focuses on innovation, pricing, and capital allocation in the biopharmaceutical industry, value in health care, medical malpractice, racial disparities in healthcare, and discovering new methods for treating Alzheimer's. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Science.Chandra serves on the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisors and has testified to the United States Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has served as Massachusetts’ Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform, and has advised federal and state governments on health care reform.Professor Chandra is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute’s Dissertation Award, the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research, and the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal. which is given to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.
Zoe Cullen graduated with a PhD from Stanford in Economics in 2016. She worked from 2016-2018 as the Chief Economist for an Asian bank on the roll out of a digital transaction platform. In 2018 she joined HBS as an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Her interests are in the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality and criminal background screening. She’s an NBER Affiliate in Labor Studies, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2024-2026).
I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I have taught Business History and courses on the business environment in the first year required curriculum, as well as an elective course on Institutions and Macroeconomics in the second year.I work on political economy, with a focus on institutional development. One strand of work studies measures of happiness and how they can inform government policies on issues that range from the incidence of inequality to the inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Another part of my research has concerned itself with the causes of illegal behavior, with applications to corruption and crime. Two recent examples include a paper on media bias and government transfers, and another trying to figure out if offenders released from electronic monitoring have lower recidvism rates than those released from prison. Finally, an increasingly important area of research for me has focused on the role of beliefs in economic organization, including reversals of pro-market reform and, more generally, why doesn't capitalism flow to poor countries. My work has been published mainly in academic journals.
Mark Egan is the Mark Kingdon Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit, teaching Corporate Financial Operations to MBA students. Professor Egan’s research concentrates on the intersection of corporate finance and industrial organization. His current research agenda explores how consumers access financial markets through banks and brokerage firms. His work has been cited in Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Egan received a BA in economics from Middlebury College and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he worked in interest rate structuring at Barclays Capital in New York.
Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School, and the founding director of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. She received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. At HBS, Elkins has been course head for FIELD Global Immersion, created the SIP course, “Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent,” and taught courses on interpersonal skills and inclusive leadership. She has written numerous case studies focusing on emerging markets and Africa. Elkins’ research focuses on empire, violence, liberalism, and insecurity, with a particular focus on Africa and various regions of the former British Empire including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, 2005) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2006. It was also one of The Economist’s Best Books for 2005, an Editor’s Choice for The New York Times, a Waterstone’s Best Writer for 2005, and a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for nonfiction. She and her research were the subjects of a BBC documentary titled “Kenya: White Terror,” which won the International Red Cross Award at the Monte Carlos Film Festival. Her research also served as the basis for the historic Mau Mau reparations case, for which she was expert witness, in the High Court of London. After four years of litigation, the British government settled the case in June 2013 with an official apology and a large, cash settlement. In 2022, Elkins published Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Knopf). The book was widely reviewed around the world, receiving three, starred pre-publication reviews and going on to be selected as one of The New York Times Top 100 books for 2022. It was also a finalist for the Baillie Gifford Award, the UK’s most prestigious nonfiction book prize, and a Best Book of 2022 by the BBC, History Today, The New Statesman, and Waterstones. Elkins and her work have been profiled in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe, as well on various television and radio programs including CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC World News, NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered, and BBC World Radio One and Radio Four. She has been a contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. At Harvard, Elkins was selected twice as a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, elected as a member of the Faculty Council for Arts and Sciences, and inducted as an honorary member of the University’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter. She has also held numerous other fellowships and awards including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Scholars (Burkhardt Fellowship), Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04; 2012-13), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Carr Center for Human Rights, and the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy.
WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004. As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School and to provide leadership and expertise about case method teaching and participant-centered learning for instructors at other institutions in the United States and abroad. From 1999-2004, Emmons was Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in the area of Strategy, Economics, Ethics and Policy, where he received the Graduate Teaching Award (2003). At Georgetown he taught courses on strategic management and international business. Emmons was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty from 1989-1999 where, as part of the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, he taught courses in the M.B.A. and executive education programs. He also has taught extensively in corporate executive development programs and has consulted to corporations and governments on domestic and international issues relating to business strategy and government policy. Emmons received the A.B. cum laude in Government (Phi Beta Kappa), the M.B.A. with high distinction (Baker Scholar), and the Ph.D. in Business Economics, all from Harvard University. His book, The Evolving Bargain: Strategic Implications of Deregulation and Privatization. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000), winner of the 2001 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, is based on extensive international research and offers a practical framework for understanding the challenges and potential rewards for established and new ventures in the face of domestic and international market liberalization. Emmons has published articles in a number of scholarly journals, including The RAND Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and The Journal of Economic History. He is also the author of over thirty Harvard Business School case studies and conceptual notes in the field of business, government, and competition.
Kenneth A. Froot is the André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. For comprehensive information visit: scholar.harvard.edu/kenfroot Harvard Business SchoolCumnock Hallkfroot@hbs.edu(617) 495-6677
Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy—specifically, how firms can uncover new sources of value through their interactions with the wider innovation ecosystem. Her research explores this in contexts ranging from quantum computing to the performing arts.Professor Fu earned her PhD in Management from MIT, MS in Engineering and Management from MIT, MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked in defense research in Singapore.
Renata Gaineddenova is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on industrial organization and the market design of digital platforms. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Gaineddenova was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm. Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté Capital, a real estate advisory firm. Until June 2011, Ms. Gerardo Lietz was a Partner at Partners Group, a Swiss based private alternative asset manager. At Partners Group she was Chief Strategist for private real estate, a member of the Global Investment Committee, and Chair of the private real estate Investment Committee. Ms. Gerardo Lietz co-founded Pension Consulting Alliance (“PCA”) in 1988 and developed its real estate investment management and advisory activities. PCA became the largest real estate advisory firm in the world in terms of client assets. In that capacity she represented many of the largest real estate investors in the world. Previously, she co-founded Public Storage, Inc., an institutional money management firm deploying pension capital to acquire real estate assets. She began her career as an attorney at Paul, Hastings specializing in SEC and ERISA matters on behalf of pension funds, real estate managers and real estate pension consultants. Ms. Gerardo Lietz holds an AB with honors from Stanford University. She also holds a juris doctorate from the UCLA School of Law where she was the Chief Comment Editor of the UCLA Law Review. She is a member of the Veris Residential Board of Directors. Ms. Gerardo Lietz is also a member of the Board of Directors for USA Water Polo Inc., the governing body for the sport in the United States. She is a former member of the Pension Real Estate Association Board of Directors and of the Real Estate Research Institute Board of Directors. In 2005 she was the Commencement Speaker for the MIT Center for Real Estate. She has twice received the Distinguished Teaching Award for the Elective Curriculum from the Harvard Business School Class of 2014 and Class of 2022. The Private Equity Real Estate Magazine named her one the 30 most influential industry leaders in 2006, the second most influential real estate person globally in 2007, and one of the 10 most prominent women in real estate in 2010.
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.” Gino is also affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard, and the Behavioral Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School. Gino has been honored as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50. Professor Gino has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the HBS Faculty Award by Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2015, and for her research, including the 2013 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, from the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division. Her studies have also been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and her work has been discussed on National Public Radio and CBS Radio. In addition to teaching, Professor Gino advises firms and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of decision-making, leadership and organizational behavior. Contact: FGino@hbs.eduWebsite: www.francescagino.com
John Gourville is the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS Marketing Unit in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in marketing and behavioral research. His most recent teaching assignment was the Core Marketing course in the first year of the MBA program, where he was also the course head. He has also taught elective courses in the second year of the MBA program, including The Marketing of Innovations, Consumer Marketing, and Entrepreneurial Marketing. In the HBS Executive Education program, he has chaired the Strategic Marketing Management program. He also teaches in the Aligning Sales and Strategy program and has taught in the Program for Leadership Development, as well as a number of custom company programs. John also has participated in specialized executive education programs throughout the world. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., John held management positions with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Mobil Oil, and New York Telephone. John's research focuses on consumer decision making, especially in the areas of pricing and the adoption of innovations. For instance, in several papers John has investigated subtle changes in the presentation of product price can lead to significant changes in a consumer's decision to purchase and consume that product. In other work, he has looked at the impact of product variety on consumer choice and finds that offering a wide assortment of goods often harms a brand. Finally, his current research investigates when and why innovative new products fail to gain traction in the marketplace. John's research has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, and in Marketing Letters.
Thomas Graeber is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum. As an empirical behavioral and experimental economist, Professor Graeber’s research focuses on identifying the determinants and economic implications of bounded rationality and non-standard preferences as sources of deviations from canonical economic models. His main research efforts revolve around developing an improved empirical understanding of how complexity affects belief formation and choice given constrained cognitive resources, such as limited attention. Professor Graeber’s research utilizes laboratory and large-scale internet experiments, representative surveys, and field data. Professor Graeber earned his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Bonn, Germany. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Graeber was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Department of Economics.
Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from Stanford University.He has published widely, including seven co-authored books. One of these, Restoring our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing (1984: coauthored with Steven C. Wheelwright), won the Association of American Publishers' Award for the best book on business, management, and economics published that year. In addition, three of his articles won McKinsey Awards for the best articles published in the Harvard Business Review during various years. Other books include Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge(2004: co-authored with Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright), Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization (1988: coauthored with Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark), and Strategic Operations: Competing Through Capabilities (1996: coauthored with Gary Pisano and David Upton . Representative recent articles include 'Operations-Based Strategy', coauthored with David Upton (California Management Review, Summer 1998), and 'Beyond World-Class: The New Manufacturing Strategy', coauthored with Gary Pisano (Harvard Business Review, January-February 1994). Professor Hayes also held a number of senior administrative positions at the School, including Area Head, Program Head, and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development. He has lived and conducted research in both Europe and Asia, and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1998. He is the past President of the Production & Operations Management Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Productivity & Quality Center. He has been selected for listing in Who's Who in America. Click here for Teaching Cases and Harvard Business Review articles authored by Professor Hayes. rhayes@hbs.edu Tel: (617) 495 6330Fax: (617) 496 4066
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical technology boards. She initiated the courses in non-profit and health care at HBS and was the first faculty member to be selected by the students as their best instructor. Regina Herzlinger has been named the "Godmother of consumer-driven health care," because of her groundbreaking scholarly articles and books on this subject. She differed from conventional views of health care consumers, who were derogatorily described as non–compliant, illiterate, or patients, as in, “you need to be patient.” Instead, she portrayed them as busy people who are eager and capable of participating in managing their health, with appropriate, relevant, and respectful support.Professor Herzlinger's long-predicted focus on the consumer-driven health care movement has supported the explosion of ambulatory medical centers, wearables, implantable sensors, telehealth, urgent and emergent free-standing care facilities, and the intense interest in health savings and health reimbursement accounts. She anticipates future consumer-driven health plans and delivery systems focused on specific chronic diseases and disabilities. (Regina Herzlinger, Market-Driven Health Care: Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry. 1997) Professor Herzlinger’s work focuses on the research and pedagogical activities that can help to create the public and business innovations that will reshape health care systems worldwide so they are increasingly accessible, cost-controlled, and technologically enabled. Because the components of the status quo health care systems—hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, insurers, for example—are oligopolized and uncompetitive (Regina E. Herzlinger, Barak Richman & Kevin Schulman. “Maintaining Health Care Innovations After the Pandemic,” JAMA Network, February 10th, 2023; Regina E. Herzlinger. Who Killed Health Care? America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem – and the Consumer-Driven Cure. McGraw-Hill, 2007) and the employers and governments that should act as agents for their constituents have been notably ineffective (Regina E. Herzlinger, “In the COVID Era, Why Corporate Benefits Demand CEO, CFO Leadership.” California Management Review, Forthcoming 2023), innovation must be consumer-driven (Regina E. Herzlinger. Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers. Jossey-Bass, 2004.) Two current main tranches of Regi’s work are aimed at public policy innovation that will give consumers the two resources they buy to drive innovation – money, so they can reward innovators, and transparency, so they can tell a good innovation from a bad one. Currently, employers and government control the funds used to buy health care and health care transparency is an oxymoronic phrase. HBS research has simulated that giving consumers the funds currently spent by their employers to buy health insurance and requiring them to buy insurance that complies with current requirements, will increase after tax income by $151 billion, taxes by $124 billion, and control health care costs as consumers opt for less health insurance coverage and more income (Regina E. Herzlinger & Barak Richman. Give Employees Cash To Purchase Their Own Health Insurance. Harvard Business Review, December 09, 2020). The improvement in income is most pronounced for lower-income employees. She has devised the components of a health care analogue to the Securities and Exchange Commission, so employees will have the information that will enable them to, finally, evaluate the quality and cost of their purchases can purchase wisely (Regina E. Herzlinger. The U.S. Needs an SEC for Its Health Care System. Bloomberg Opinion, August 20, 2020; Regina Herzlinger & Vonnie Quinn, How the Pandemic caused ‘A Lot of Consumer-Driven Innovation,’ Bloomberg TV, October 2020. She and colleague Richard Boxer recommend a transparency solution for hospital networks that can help to alleviate the hospital bed shortage that occurred during the peak of COVID (Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer, “Transparency As A Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues.” Health Affairs, February 18, 2022) ,which is under consideration by the US Congress. Because success in innovation lies much more with effective implementation than with invention, Regi has also focused on a book (Innovating in Healthcare, Wiley 2024) and related field-based case studies that spell out how to create successful health care innovations and avoid failures. She has taught two popular HBS courses on the subject (Innovating in Health Care and an accompanying Field Course) that have helped to create hundreds of innovative health care firms. In addition, she created a Harvard EdX MOOC, Innovating in Healthcare, that has attracted 70,000-85.000 viewers annually since it was launched in 2015. Many of her students founded billion-dollar innovations and prominent non-profit firms and became leaders in major health corporations. Her forthcoming book Innovating in Healthcare (Wiley, 2024), contains the lessons of her courses. Professor Herzlinger’s work is virtually unique. It is repeatedly attacked by academics, in and out of Harvard University, and the status quo stakeholders who prefer a system controlled by the government to one driven by consumers, but abetted by the government. Some of them confuse universal health insurance coverage, which she supports, with complete governmental provision of health care. Although her early critiques of holy health care grails -- such as nonprofit hospitals (once depicted as saintly but now widely recognized as greedy as businesses); transparency (consumers were “illiterate”); ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations – integrated health care providers that were to fly in the face of the miserable results achieved in integrations elsewhere in the economy and to provide everything for everybody) – proved accurate. Professor Herzlinger’s work received this remarkable degree of criticism, likely because she is not only consumer-oriented, but also a woman. But, unlike her colleagues, the public is highly interested in her point of view. Three of her books have been best sellers in their fields and her LinkedIn posts regularly have tens of thousands of views. She also occasionally likes to have some fun with her writing as in, Love in the Office is Wonderful. Except for CEOs. Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School. February 20, 2020 where she discusses how finding love among your colleagues can be a wonderful thing, and not inevitably career ending. Unless, of course, you are the CEO. Prof. Herzlinger is a successful medical technology entrepreneur with her husband, an MIT Ph.D. Physicist. Their devices, which they design and manufacture in the U.S., have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. They are working on new ideas and have formed a charity to promulgate education in healthcare innovation.
Sebastian Hillenbrand is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Sebastian’s research interests are in behavioral and institutional finance, macro-finance and monetary policy. His work has documented a striking relationship between the secular decline in interest rates and meetings by the Federal Reserve. He has also explored how beliefs of investors and institutional frictions can explain price fluctuations of financial assets. Sebastian graduated with a Ph.D. in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business in September 2022. He also holds an M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance from Vienna University of Business and Economics (Austria) and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). He has worked in the financial industry prior to his Ph.D. studies.
Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Ivashina co-founded and co-leads Harvard Business School's Private Capital Project and several executive education programs in the private equity area. She also developed the HBS Online Alternative Investments program. Professor Ivashina is a co-author of the books Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing and Private Equity: A Case Book. Her research covers a broad spectrum of financial intermediation, including corporate credit markets, global banking operations, asset allocation by pension funds and insurance companies, and value creation by private equity and debt. Professor Ivashina currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. She is an independent trustee of the Carlyle AlpInvest Private Markets Fund. Professor Ivashina holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.
Ebehi Iyoha is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and international trade. Using a combination of structural and reduced-form methods, her work examines the economic significance of interfirm networks and how they impact firm performance through productivity and trade. Professor Iyoha earned her PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University in 2021 and worked as a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston prior to joining HBS.
Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at Harvard Business School. Kaps' research focuses on emerging topics in renewable electricity generation and storage - notably how new technologies, sustainability behavior, and policies shape the energy market of the future. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum. His primary research interest is in the energy transition with a particular focus on how the evolution of storage technologies shapes capacity and investment decisions in renewable power and fossil-fuel plants. Additionally, he focuses on the role that customers' sustainable behavior plays in accelerating the adoption of new technologies and how local differences influence the setup of power markets around the world. While his main research focus is on the energy field, Kaps' interests lie in the areas of sustainability and technology innovation more broadly. As he believes that no single actor can solve climate change related challenges alone, he has partnered with firms ranging from storage startups to large renewable investors like AWS for his academic work. Professor Kaps earned his PhD in Operations Management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a MSc in Supply Chain Management from the Rotterdam School of Management and received his BSc in Business Administration at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.” A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting firm, Michael helps boards and CEOs develop and implement navigation strategies in this ever-changing business environment. Prior to founding Positive Strategy, Michael served as a partner of a boutique New York M&A advisory firm, led Metromedia Restaurant Group (then a $1.4 billion multi-chain restaurant company) for a dozen years, created and successfully exited a restaurant start-up, and innovated a restaurant brand for a luxury retailer. Michael also served as an investment banker with Kluge & Company and an M&A lawyer with Paul Weiss in New York. He served as Chair of the Board of the National Restaurant Association, and is currently a director of the Association, a trustee emeritus of its Educational Foundation and of the Culinary Institute of America, Chair of the Business Leadership Council of Menus of Change (a collaboration between Harvard and the CIA), an executive advisor to a private equity firm, and a member of the Board of Northern Westchester Hospital and Chair of its Community Health Committee. He also served on the Boards of Benihana, Inc., Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges, and the Chappaqua School Foundation (including as president). Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).Professor Kempf’s research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and empirical corporate finance. Her work has explored the role of political partisanship and polarization in finance, conflicts of interest in information production, as well as issues related to corporate governance. Her research has been cited in Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science. Her research awards include the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, the BlackRock Best Paper Award given annually by the Financial Research Association, and second place for the Jensen Prize, given annually by the Journal of Financial Economics. She currently serves as associate editor for the Review of Financial Studies. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Professor Kempf spent six years as a faculty member at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in finance from Tilburg University (Netherlands), an M.Sc. in finance from HEC Paris (France), and a B.Sc. in business administration from the University of Mannheim (Germany). Prior to her Ph.D. studies, Professor Kempf worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank.
Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. Professor Khurana received his B.S. from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his A.M. (Sociology) and Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked as a founding member of Cambridge Technology Partners in Sales and Marketing. Professor Khurana's research uses a sociological perspective to focus on the processes by which elites and leaders are selected and developed. He has written extensively about the CEO labor market with a particular interest on: the factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; the factors that affect the choice of successor; the role of market intermediaries such as executive search firms in CEO search; and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. He has published articles on Corp. Governance in the Harvard Business and Sloan Management Review. His book on the CEO labor market, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (Princeton University Press). The book is an analysis of the labor market for CEOs. In the book Khurana explains the basic mechanics of the market, how it differs from other labor markets, how it has changed in the past twenty years, and whether it is successful in placing the best candidates in the available jobs. He focuses on the growing tendency of boards of directors to ignore candidates inside their firms and to hire CEOs from outside. He seeks to show that this trend has emerged not because of the intrinsic merits of the “external market,” but because of the rise of investor capitalism and despite evidence that reliance on this market for CEO succession and executive compensation has serious problems that may threaten the viability of firms and the legitimacy of market capitalism. Khurana's subsequent research grows out of the same interests in the social context of business leadership and the allocation of leadership positions that motivated his research on the CEO labor market. His 2008 book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (2007: Princeton University Press), chronicles the evolution of management as a profession, with particular focus on the institutional development of the MBA. The focus of this book lies in its direct bearing on the question of how professional management has claimed and received legitimation for its role as the steward of a very substantial proportion of society’s material wealth and resources—a role that has itself been subject to changing interpretations over the decades since the phenomenon of professional management first appeared on the American scene. Guiding questions in this research stream include: Where did our current shareholder-centered, agency-based view of the role of professional management come from—particularly in light of the very different one that underlay the founding of the first professional business schools and the granting to them of a place within the university? How does our current view of the role of the professional manager compare with the way that professional responsibility has traditionally been conceived in the other professions? In view of the way that professional roles have recently been evolving in professions such as law or medicine, do market forces inevitably undermine professional autonomy and standards? What would be the potential benefits and drawbacks of management becoming more like the other professions in its structure and culture than it has been during its history to date? Khurana's work argues that without a re-commitment to the professionalization project, business schools risk devolving into narrow vocation schools and serving largely as a credentialing system, ultimately weakening the legitimacy of MBA programs and contributing to a business culture that garners low trust and low legitimacy in society. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands received the American Sociological Association's Max Weber Book Award in 2008 for most outstanding contribution to scholarship in the past two years. In 2007, the book was also the Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management, Association of American Publishers. Khurana has also been working with Dean Nitin Nohria to help legitimate the study of leadership as a multi-disciplinary field. Despite the fact that most business schools have "leadership" in their mission, the field is not regarded as a legitimate field of academic study. Khurana and Nohria have co-edited The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, a volume aimed at advancing leadership studies as an academic field of study and scholarship that was published by Harvard Business Press in 2010 and the Handbook of Leadership Teaching and Pedagogy (with Snook and Nohria). The Handbook of Leadership Teaching and Pedagogy received the 2010 Outstanding Leadership Book award by the University of San Diego and the International Leadership Association. Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Scott Snook are also co-editors of the forthcoming Handbook of Leadership Teaching and Pedagogy, a volume aimed at examining the pedagogical approaches and theories that undergird existing leadership development and training. The volume will be published by Sage Publications in 2011. Khurana, Nohria and Snook are also co-organizing the fourth annual Harvard Leadership Forum that will focus on developing course modules that integrate the teaching of values in standard organizational behavior and leadership courses. Khurana is now working on a new research project examining global leadership and the culture, systems, and organizations that support transnational networks of institutional leadership. Khurana's work on the deficiencies of the CEO labor market and his research on business education is regularly featured by the general media such as: Business Week, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNBC, The Economist, Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, Chief Executive and Corporate Board Member magazine. He has also published opinion-editorials in some of these outlets. He has consulted to corporations and executive search firms to help improve their CEO succession, governance, and executive development practices. He has been recognized by the London Times as one of 'The Thinkers 50', a list of the fifty most influential management thinkers in the world. Interested in book reviews and everyday observations, visit Rakesh's weblog at rakeshkhurana.typepad.com. Interested in signing the MBA Oath which aims to help move management toward seeing itself as a profession see mbaoath.org. Interested in helping develop a set of global standards that will allow for broad, inclusive and sustainable value creation by firms visit www.globalbusinessoath.orgIn his role as a professor, Khurana does occasionally receive payment for executive education (HBS projects and external projects) and consulting projects related to leadership and governance issues. He is a member of the board of the MBA Oath Project. He is also on the board of American Family Insurance. When these activities are directly related to the collection of data or the development of cases, they will be noted on any material published or revised after 2010. Beginning in 2011 and then updated annually, he will list all firms he has received compensation for in excess of $5,000.
Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Kim's research examines how firms and households make financial decisions, with a focus on the role of the family. Her work evaluates how financial regulations shape credit and consumption disparities within the household and the extent to which business owners' family life events drive firm growth and investment. She also studies topics in financial intermediation and federal programs targeting small business growth. Professor Kim earned a PhD in Financial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Economics from Smith College. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Economics of an Aging Workforce at the National Bureau of Economic Research before joining HBS. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked at MIT Blueprint Labs and in Global Capital Markets at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is an academic fellow at the JPMorgan Chase Institute.
Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her latest book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, spotlights how five of history’s greatest leaders managed crisis and, in doing this, accomplished extraordinary missions. She is currently working on a major study of civil rights leaders during the late 1950s and 1960s and what we can learn today from their bravery, commitment, methods and purpose. Koehn has written numerous books and authored HBS cases on Starbucks Coffee Company, Ernest Shackleton, Oprah Winfrey, Bono and U2, Whole Foods, Wedgwood, Estée Lauder, Madam CJ Walker, Dell Computer, and other leaders and organizations. She is currently writing an HBS case on John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement and another case on John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Koehn consults with many companies and speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival and the World Business Forum. She has appeared on many television shows, including, "American Experience," "Good Morning America," "The PBS NewsHour," and A&E's "Biography.” She writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and the BBC. In 2012, Poets and Quants ranked Koehn as one of the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors. Before coming to HBS, Koehn was a member of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences for seven years, first as a graduate student in history and then as a lecturer in the History and Literature concentration and the Department of Economics. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard. Koehn lives in Concord, Massachusetts and is a dedicated equestrian.
John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again. Most recently Kotter was involved in the creation and co-founding of Kotter International, a leadership organization that helps Global 5000 company leaders develop the practical skills and implementation methodologies required to lead change in a complex, large-scale business environment. Kotter has authored 18 books, twelve of them bestsellers. His works have been printed in over 150 foreign language editions and total sales exceed three million copies. His latest book, Buy-In, focuses on the problems associated with getting others engaged and committed to good ideas and provides solutions for dealing with attacks on your good ideas. His books are in the top 1% of sales on Amazon.com. John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. Kotter has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship, making him one of the youngest people in the history of the University to be so honored. Professor Kotter's article "Accelerate!" in the Harvard Business Review—in which he first debuted his Dual Operating System business model—won the 2012 McKinsey Award, recognizing it as the most significant article published in the magazine that year. This article has since been expanded into a full book by the same name. Professor Kotter is the 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by ASTD (American Society for Training & Development). This award was presented in recognition of his extensive body of work and the significant impact he has had on learning and performance in organizations. What People Are Saying About Dr. Kotter: "Your talk was instrumental in helping me raise the leadership bar." "You clearly sneaked under the defenses of even the most skeptical of our people and established memorable reference points which will be cited repeatedly in the future. More importantly, you delivered reinforcement, hope and direction for their pursued leadership development aspirations.” This was a quite uplifting and inspirational experience for me - delivered by one of the finest teachers I have ever seen. I will not forget this one.
Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course head for Marketing, required study in the first year of the MBA program. Professor Lal also teaches in several Executive Education programs, has previously served as the Faculty Chair for the General Management Program, and the program on Building and Leading a Customer Centric Organization. Lal was a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University beginning in 1982. He was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School from 1997-98. He was the Visiting Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, France in 1986, 1988, 1992, and 1993. He did his undergraduate work in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India and received his Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University. Lal's current research concerns the opportunities and challenges in building a Business around Smart Connected products/IOT. His book "Retail Revolution: Will Your Store Survive" is based on many years of extensive research in the field of Retailing focusing on the viability of brick and mortar stores as they face the onslaught of on-line competition. In addition, he has studied how to build and sustain customer-centric retail organizations. His past work has explored successful retail strategies for global expansion. He has written extensively on the impact of using the Internet as a channel of distribution on a retailer's pricing, merchandising, and branding strategy. His earlier work in retailing studies the impact of competition between different retail formats, such as EDLP and Hi-Lo grocers. He has also studied the consequences of grocery retailers’ increasing use of store brands on store loyalty and its implications for packaged goods manufacturers. Lal's earlier research focused on pricing, trade promotions, and salesforce compensation plans. The work on salesforce compensation plans originated with his dissertation research, which won the award for the best paper published in Marketing Science and Management Science in 1985. A subsequent article, also developed from his thesis, received an honorable mention for the same award in 1986. He has also studied compensation plans used by German salesforces. His work in the area of pricing and promotions has been equally well recognized. Two of his articles were among the finalists for the John D. C. Little award for the best paper published in Management Science and Marketing Science in 1990. One of these articles, co-authored with Jagmohan Raju and V. Srinivasan on the impact of brand loyalty on price promotions, has been awarded the Frank Bass award for the best dissertation paper. Lal’s recent work includes Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, “Retail Doesn’t Cross Borders: Here’s Why and What to do About it” in Harvard Business Review, “Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink” in HBS Working Knowledge, and Marketing Management: Text and Cases. He has published more than twenty-five articles in academic journals and more than 80 cases and other teaching materials. He has applied his academic frameworks and industry knowledge in much of his research and many of his consulting projects. Lal has worked on a variety of such projects with a wide range of companies, including Citigroup, Citizens Bank, American Family Insurance, Standard Life Plc, Omnitel Italia, Credit Suisse, Stop & Shop, Ito-Yokado, Best Buy, Stride Rite Corporation, Oliver Wyman and Company, Fleming Companies, Nordstrom, Microsoft, Kellogg, Sara Lee D/E, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Callaway Golf Company, Staples, and other well-known companies on strategy development and execution. Lal serves as a member of the Board for Leader Bank and Global Cures. In addition to these board positions, Lal has served as an Area Editor for Marketing Science and Co-editor of Quantitative Marketing and Economics.
Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won numerous awards for his teaching & research, including the HBS Faculty Award, and has been twice selected by Harvard MBA students to give the end-of-year speech to the graduating class. In 2014, Deepak was listed as one of the "world's best business school professors" under the age of 40. He currently serves as Faculty Chair for the Owner/President Management Program for business owners and entrepreneurs.Deepak's latest book (and debut novel), The Peacemaker's Code, was published in February 2021. It has won the "National Indie Excellence Award" (for Best Science Fiction Novel) and is currently in development as a TV series.His previous books include... Negotiating the Impossible: #1 Business Book of 2016 (KnowSquare), Outstanding Book Award (International Association for Conflict Management), Top 10 Business Books of 2016 (The Globe & Mail). Negotiation Genius: 2008 Outstanding Book Award (International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution) I Moved Your Cheese: Wall Street Journal Best-Seller Deepak's research has been published in top journals in the fields of management, psychology, conflict resolution, and foreign policy. Outside HBS, Deepak is a trainer, consultant, and advisor to firms & CEOs across the globe, and an advisor to governments that are trying to negotiate an end to protracted & intractable armed conflicts. In 2020, Deepak created a series of 40 short videos w/ free advice on topics related to negotiation, deal-making, sales, conflict resolution & diplomacy. You can find the Negotiation Insights Series here. You can follow Deepak on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Prof_Malhotra
Scott Mayfield is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School. Prior rejoining the faculty in 2011, Professor Mayfield was an assistant professor and member of the Finance Unit at HBS from 1997 to 2001. Professor Mayfield currently teaches the second semester finance course in the first year of the MBA program, as well as Finance for Senior Executives and the corporate finance component of the Program for Leadership Development in the Executive Education Program. Previously, Professor Mayfield has taught the advanced corporate finance course in the second year of the MBA program and has been on the faculty of numerous executive education programs, including the Program for Management Development (now GMP), Focused Financial Management, and Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. His research focuses on valuation, asset pricing, and the dynamic nature of corporate decision making, including capital budgeting decisions, financing, and payout policies. His articles have been published in a variety of academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Economics and Business, and the Physical Review A. Professor Mayfield has also written numerous case studies on a range of valuation, financing, and strategic decision making topics. His current research focuses on the valuation and financing of startup ventures. In addition to his academic research, Professor Mayfield has served as a consultant to numerous corporations and investment advisors. He has also served as an expert witness in litigation matters involving complex valuation and corporate finance issues. Prior to rejoining the HBS Faculty, Professor Mayfield was the Financial Markets Practice Leader and Vice President at Charles River Associates. Professor Mayfield received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in Economics with Highest Honors from Williams College.
Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School. She currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum. In addition, she co-leads the HBS Startup Bootcamp. Ms. Mnookin brings two decades of experience as a technology executive for successful cloud and business software companies. She most recently was CEO of Quick Base Inc. and currently serves on the company’s Board of Directors. At Quick Base, Allison was responsible for setting the business strategy and overseeing a client base of more than 500,000 business subscribers, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100. Prior to Quick Base, Allison held several leadership positions at Intuit. Most notably, she served as vice president and general manager of a $500M portfolio of small business products, including QuickBooks, which served more than 3 million small businesses at the time. Allison was also instrumental in the early formation and growth of Quicken Loans. Prior to joining Intuit in 1998, Ms. Mnookin held several sales and marketing positions with Oracle Corporation. Allison currently serves on the Board of Directors of LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA), a firm that provides an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Fleetmatics, (NYSE: FLTX), a leading global provider of fleet management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, prior to the company’s profitable sale to Verizon for $2.4 billion. Allison holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard College.
Kevin P. Mohan joined the Negotiation unit at Harvard Business School in 2012. He teaches Negotiation and Deals in the MBA program, in the Owners, Presidents, and Managers program, and in a number of other Executive Education programs at Harvard. He also teaches War & Peace in the MBA curriculum. Kevin also serves as a Senior Advisor at Summit Partners, a $37 billion growth equity firm, and as an independent director for several companies and nonprofit entities. Kevin began his career with the Harvard Management Company in 1986 where he invested endowment capital in private companies and investment partnerships. Kevin later worked for McKinsey & Company as an engagement manager in the New York office. He joined Summit Partners in 1994 and led over 20 investments, ranging from $3 million to $125 million per company, primarily in technology and industrial growth businesses. He served as General Partner and then Managing Director for many years and later transitioned to a Senior Advisor role. Kevin served on many corporate and nonprofit boards and continues to serve as the Chair for Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy and a board member for Washington Mills (fused mineral manufacturing). Kevin graduated with honors from Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School. He is a Faculty Advisor for the Harvard College wrestling team. Kevin is married with three children and lives in Boston. He retired after running 19 Boston Marathons and now cycles annually in the 180 mile Pan Mass Challenge to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Kevin’s wife, Anne Williams, is the President of a global manufacturing business founded in 1868.
Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues related to corporate boards of directors. Her work has appeared in nearly a dozen top-tier managerial and academic outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, American Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, The Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and others. She is the author of The Strategist: Be the Leader your Business Needs (HarperBusiness, 2012), which has been translated into 14 languages; the co-author of Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm (with David J. Collis); the editor of Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm; and the co-editor of Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage (with Michael E. Porter). At Harvard Business School, Professor Montgomery twice received the Greenhill Award for her contributions to the School’s pedagogical mission. Prior to Harvard, Montgomery taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Michigan and at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management where she was recognized with its Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. Her dissertation work on corporate level strategy won the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Management. Montgomery has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies--NewellRubbermaid, Inc. and UnumProvident--and a number of mutual funds managed by BlackRock, Inc. She has also served on several not-for-profit boards, including Harvard Business Publishing and McLean Hospital.
Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of brand strategy and culture, with a particular focus on the emergent AI economy. She is the author of the bestselling book, Different, and she has published and sold more than two million case studies on companies ranging from Starbucks to IKEA to Uber. Professor Moon serves on the Board of Directors of Mastercard, Unilever, Warby Parker and Sweetgreen; she also works with a number of startups (Groq, Whoop, and others). At HBS, she has launched a number of strategic innovations, including the MBA FIELD curriculum and the Harvard Business Online learning platform. She has served as Senior Associate Dean for strategy and innovation, as well as Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program. She has received the HBS Student Association Faculty Award for teaching excellence multiple times; she is also the inaugural recipient of the Hellman Faculty Fellowship, awarded for distinction in research.Professor Moon received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, her M.A. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from Yale University. Prior to joining HBS, she was on the faculty at MIT.
Antonio (Toni) Moreno is the Sicupira Family Associate Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. He teaches courses related to technology and operations management in the MBA, executive, and doctoral programs. Before joining HBS, he was an associate professor in the Kellogg School of Management.Professor Moreno’s research studies the digital transformation of operations, and he is particularly interested in the transformation of retail and service industries. Professor Moreno’s work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Information Systems Research, and Sloan Management Review, and has been covered by several media outlets. He received the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society.Professor Moreno earned degrees in electrical engineering and industrial engineering from Technical University of Catalonia. He has an MA in statistics and a PhD in operations and information management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. In 1992-1993, he served as a senior economist at Abt Associates. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1993. Professor Moss’s early research focused on economic policy and especially the government’s role as a risk manager. He has authored three books on these subjects: Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (Harvard University Press, 1996), which traces the intellectual and institutional origins of the American welfare state; When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard University Press, 2002), which explores the government’s pivotal role as a risk manager in policies ranging from limited liability law to federal disaster relief; and A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), a primer on macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy. He has also authored numerous articles, book chapters, and case studies, mainly in the fields of institutional and policy history, financial history, political economy, and regulation. One notable article from 2009, “An Ounce of Prevention: Financial Regulation, Moral Hazard, and the End of ‘Too Big to Fail’” (Harvard Magazine, Sept-Oct 2009), grew out of his research on financial regulation for the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel. Professor Moss has co-edited three volumes on economic regulation, including Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, co-edited with Daniel Carpenter (Cambridge University Press, 2014). More recently, Professor Moss has devoted increasing attention to questions of democratic governance and its evolution over time. His 2017 book, Democracy: A Case Study, explores key episodes in the history of American democracy from the Constitutional Convention to Citizens United. The book grew out of a popular course he created for Harvard undergraduates and MBA students, and he has since launched the Case Method Institute, which works closely with teachers to bring his case-based curriculum on the history of American democracy to high school history, government, and civics classrooms across the country. Moss also founded and remains actively involved in the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research organization, which received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Professor Moss is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the National Academy of Social Insurance. Other honors include the Robert F. Greenhill Award, the Editors’ Prize from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the Student Association Faculty Award for outstanding teaching at the Harvard Business School (eleven times), and the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Annual Kulp-Wright Book Award for the “most influential text published on the economics of risk management and insurance.” January 2022
Kyle Myers is an assistant professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management unit. He teaches the first-year Technology and Operations Management course. Professor Myers studies the economics of innovation. His research is at the intersection of science, business, and public policy. More specifically, Professor Myers is interested in the strategic choices and performance of scientists, the supply and demand of innovation in high-tech sectors, public versus private funding of R&D, and the management of innovation in high-tech organizations. His work has received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation. Professor Myers holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School’s Department of Health Care Management and Economics. He has a M.S. in Health Policy and Management and a B.S. in Biology from Penn State University. Prior to joining HBS, he served as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses field experiments to understand how firms can use incentives and performance feedback to improve performance. VG is studying how financial incentives can be used as a catalyst to form desirable habits and to harness other motivators such as peer pressure and frequent feedback. Education Phd in Business, Graduate School of Businessat Stanford University, June 1995 MA in Economics, Economics Department Stanford University, June 1994 MS in Statistics, Statistics DepartmentStanford University, June 1993 MBA, IIMA, India, March 1990 Chartered Accountancy, Madras, India, May 1988 Bachelors in Commerce, University of Madras, May 1988 Work Experience September 1994 to present - Professor, Harvard Business School. I have taught Financial Reporting and Control (a first-year required course), Measuring and Driving Corporate Performance (a second-year elective), Management Control and Performance Measurement (a doctoral course), and several executive education courses. March 1985 to May 1988 - Audit Assistant with J. Gowrikanthan & Co., Chartered Accountants, Madras.
Joseph Pacelli is the Gerald Schuster Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit. He currently teaches Business Analysis and Valuation (BAV) in the MBA elective curriculum. Professor Pacelli’s research covers topics related to capital market gatekeepers (such as financial analysts and bankers), culture and diversity, and new technology. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. His research has also been featured and cited in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, and Business Insider. Professor Pacelli holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Cornell University, and graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting. Prior to graduate school, he worked in corporate and investment banking.
Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.Professor Paulson's research is in the area of operations for social good. In particular, she designs analytical methods and algorithms for allocating scarce resources efficiently and fairly to improve social outcomes. Much of her work draws on tools from optimization, machine learning, mathematical modeling, and statistics.Professor Paulson's research is grounded in her close collaborations with nonprofits and governmental agencies, with current emphases in the areas of immigration and food policy. Her work in food policy addresses the design and optimization of interventions for creating better access to, and consumption of, fresh food. Her work on immigration focuses on designing algorithms to support data-driven geographic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers within host countries.Prior to joining HBS, Professor Paulson was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, where she remains a Faculty Affiliate. She received her PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2021, supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Elisabeth received her B.S. in Math, B.S. in Statistics, and M.A. in Math from the Pennsylvania State University. For more information, please visit:https://elisabethpaulson.github.io/
Leslie Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She recently launched a second year elective, Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA. This course encourages students to be more intentional about their choices, and provides guidance to help them in terms of managing their careers, relationships, and lives. Beyond this course she has become involved in building and studying the HBS alumni community. She leads the LIFE Special Project that seeks to create ways to simultaneously help individuals learn about themselves and their choices and tradeoffs in life while also enabling more general knowledge creation about what it means to live a good life. Professor Perlow’s research focuses on the micro-dynamics of work and life. She has long studied how individuals act within an organization – i.e., what do people do all day, how do they spend their time, with whom do they interact– and the consequences for organizations and individuals. She documents individuals’ work practices including the use of technology, meetings, virtual interactions, and managing across cultures with global teams, and explores the implications of these practices for organization productivity, individuals’ careers, and family lives. Professor Perlow has recently launched several projects to explore hybrid work and how individuals' work location relative to their co-workers as well as others in their lives (i.e., family, partners, roommates) effects their work productivity and their individual (and family's) well-being. She combines deep inductive qualitative research with data analytics to better understand and empower teams to improve the way they work. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Professor Perlow was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Business School. She earned her B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Organization Studies from MIT. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a management consultant.
THOMAS R. PIPER, Baker Foundation Professor and Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is a faculty member in the Finance and Accounting Units at the Graduate School of Business Administration. He has taught in the MBA Program, as well as in other Executive Education courses, including the Advanced Management Program and General Management Program. He served as chairman of the MBA Policy Committee and was senior associate dean for 13 years. Presently, he is studying ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders and shares responsibility for the School's efforts in the area of values, leadership, and corporate responsibility. He also oversaw two Senior Executive Programs sited in the Middle East and South Africa and was instrumental in an initiative to help establish outstanding market-oriented business schools in Central and Eastern Europe.Professor Piper is the author of The Economics of Bank Acquisitions and a coauthor of Case Problems in Finance, now in its eleventh edition (with W. Fruhan, W. Kester, and R. Ruback) and Can Ethics Be Taught? (with M. Gentile and S. Parks). He is a consultant in the field of corporate financial management and was a director of FleetBoston Corporation, Marriott Corporation, and GenRad.
Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective goals. He has ongoing projects in collaboration with a number of organizations, often working with members of their people analytics groups on problems of mutual interest. He has taught a variety of courses in the MBA, Executive, and Doctoral Programs at HBS, and published his research in numerous top management and psychology journals. Professor Polzer currently teaches in Executive Education programs including the Owner/President Management Program and the Harvard Business Analytics Program. His past MBA courses include Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Leading Teams, Leading with People Analytics, and Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. He taught the doctoral course Human Behavior and served as the faculty chair of Harvard’s Organizational Behavior PhD program. He has also conducted executive training sessions for a variety of organizations including IBM, Novartis, AT&T, Allianz, Seagate, Jabil, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Citizens Bank, Bharti Airtel, Fresenius, Mercy Corps, and Ernst & Young. At HBS, he has received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for outstanding service, the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, the Charles M. Williams award for his work with doctoral students, and the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. Before coming to Harvard, he taught courses in Organizational Behavior and Negotiations at the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University, where he won the Kellogg Graduate School of Management's Doctoral Teaching Award. A native of Wisconsin, Professor Polzer earned a B.S. in Finance and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and an MBA from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked for Burlington Northern Railroad as a marketing analyst. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has published his research in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Science, and Small Group Research.
Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department. His research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory. His current topics of interest include errors in statistical reasoning and the evolution of beliefs, effects of choice context on exhibited preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and errors people make in inference in market and learning settings. He received his PhD from MIT in 1989, the same year he joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor. He is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and co-organizer of the Russell Sage Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics. He has been a visiting professor at M.I.T., London School of Economics, Northwestern, Harvard, and Cal Tech, as well as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (at Stanford) and the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Rabin's honors include Most Likely to Express His Opinion (Springbrook High School); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; Graduate Economics Association Outstanding Teaching Award; MacArthur Foundation Fellow; Econometric Society Fellow; John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence -- supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations -- to MBA students and executive participants. He is also actively involved in guiding multiple doctoral students at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on supply chain management and the investors’ perspective on operations. He is co-director (with Marshall Fisher of the WhartonSchool) of the Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing, a research group that involves academics from numerous universities and leading retailers from around the world. Raman’s research has been published in many leading journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He has also authored multiple Harvard Business School case studies that are taught extensively at many schools, including Harvard. His book (co-authored with Marshall Fisher) “The New Science of Retailing” was published in June 2010. He has consulted with, and been responsible for management education programs for executives at, a number of companies, and has also helped multiple retailers and suppliers design and develop decision-support systems for supply chain management. He serves as an advisor to multiple retail CEOs. He is co-founder of 4R Systems (www.4rsystems.com), a venture-backed startup company. Raman serves on the board of directors at 4R Systems, and Cumberland Farms, Inc. (http://www.cumberlandfarms.com/). 4R Systems (www.4rsystems.com) uses science and technology to help retail chains maximize profit from their inventory investment. Cumberland Farms is a family-owned and family-operated chain of convenience stores in the United States.
Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology ventures, and how to scale them. Rayport was as an operating partner at Castanea Partners, a private equity firm specializing in retail and consumer brands. He was founder and CEO of Marketspace LLC, a digital advisory firm, and co-founder of Monitor Executive Development, a custom executive education business. He was a Senior Partner at Monitor Deloitte. Rayport was also a co-founder of several corporate universities, including at Omnicom Group, Bertelsmann, and Amgen. Rayport began his career at HBS as a professor in the Marketing and Service Management units. While there, he developed the first MBA e-commerce course in the US, enrolling nearly a thousand students. In pursuing this research, Rayport authored over a hundred case studies, articles, and notes. Business plans written by students in his course gave rise to many start-ups, including Yahoo! Prior to a leave from HBS, Rayport coined the term “viral marketing.” He was also voted Outstanding Professor for three years in a row by the HBS Students Association. Rayport has published a series of leading graduate-level textbooks on e-commerce and online marketing with McGraw-Hill and also a bestseller with Harvard Business Review Press on reinventing service businesses for the digital age (Best Face Forward). He has been a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his writing has appeared in CIO, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, MarketWatch, McKinsey Quarterly, Strategy & Business, and MIT Technology Review. He has served as a director of many public and private corporations, including AGENCY.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), Andrews McMeel Universal; Be Free (NASDAQ:BFRE); CBS MarketWatch (MKTW), CDP, Conversant (NASDAQ:CNVR); GSI Commerce (NASDAQ:GSIC), Hanley Wood; iCrossing, International Data Group; MediaMath; Linkwell Health; Monster Worldwide (NYSE:MWW); Receptiv; Resident; Shoprunner; and Valueclick (NASDAQ:VCLK). He is also a corporate director at The Inquirer and Mirror (the weekly newspaper of record on the Island of Nantucket, MA, which began publishing in 1821). In his service on charitable boards, he has been a long-standing member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; a member of the Board of Trustees at WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, MA; a member of the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston; and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He was also a founding board member at Hult International Business School in Boston, MA, and a long-time board chair at From the Top, the nation’s leading classical music radio show distributed across the US by more than 200 NPR stations. (He is also a Kentucky Colonel and an ordained minister in the State of California.) Rayport earned an A.B. at Harvard College; an M.Phil. in International Relations at the University of Cambridge (U.K.); and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Business History at Harvard University.
James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to produce qualitative studies on the role of status, norms, social valuations, and organizational culture within innovation-driven organizations, creative industries, and cultural markets. His fieldwork aims to identify and distill complex informal governance structures and relational mechanisms to generate observationally grounded theories of organizational actors’ strategic behavior. Professor Riley earned a Ph.D. from MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.S. in Urbanization and Development from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California.
Ben Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He is a development economist that employs both economic theory and field experimentation to pursue questions in two overlapping agendas: understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world, and understanding how investors should behave when they have both financial and social preferences. Ben earned a BA in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in economics from MIT.
William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Mr. Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, impact investing, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy. In 1985, Mr. Sahlman introduced a new second-year elective course called Entrepreneurial Finance. Over 10,000 students have taken that course since it was first offered. In 2000, Mr. Sahlman helped design and introduce The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required course in the First Year MBA curriculum. In 2017, Mr. Sahlman developed an HBS Online course called Entrepreneurship Essentials. In 2020, Mr. Sahlman will introduce a new HBS course called Entrepreneurial Solutions to World Problems. Mr. Sahlman has published over 200 cases and notes for classroom use. From 2007 to 2016, Mr. Sahlman was Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. From 2003 to 2016, he was co-chair of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He was co-chair of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit from 1999 to 2002. From 1991 to 1999, he was Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing Activities, and chairman of the board for Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. From 1990 to 1991, he was chairman of the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. From 2009 to 2015, he was chairman of the Advisory Committee for Harvard Stem Cell Science. Mr. Sahlman is a member of the board of advisors or board of directors of several private companies and organizations, including the McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General Hospital. He has been a director, advisor, and/or investor in over 200 companies, venture capital funds, and nonprofits. In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Mr. Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 "to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society."
Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager and The Founder Mindset. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of Alignvest Management Corporation and the Founding Chairman of NEXT Canada. For over 20 years, Reza has been both a serial founder and an entrepreneurship professor. He has co-founded, built and managed six operating businesses, from inception, within a variety of industries. These businesses, collectively, have been sold for in excess of $3 billion. Concurrently, Reza has taught many entrepreneurship courses and created several entrepreneurship programs. Alignvest is a private investment company, controlled by Reza, that has founded and built several businesses including: (i) Alignvest Student Housing, founded in 2018, building Canada’s largest owner-operator of purpose-built student accommodations currently with 7,150 beds and over $1.4 billion of asset value; (ii) Edgewood Health Network, founded in 2012, built a leading national provider of mental health and addiction services, successfully sold to Peloton Capital Management (generating in excess of a 10x multiple on invested capital); and (iii) KGS Alpha Capital Markets, founded in 2010, built a leading New York based US fixed income broker dealer with over $10 billion of assets, sold to Bank of Montreal for over $400 million. Alignvest has in excess of $150 million of permanent partner capital, which allows it to take a long-term investment outlook and be fully aligned with its investment partners. Alongside its own capital, Alignvest has invested over $2.5 billion from high net worth and institutional investors in a concentrated group of businesses. Previously, Reza co-founded, built and managed StorageNow, a leading self storage company that was founded in 2003 and sold to InStorage REIT in 2007 for $110 million and SupplierMarket, a supply chain software company, that was founded in 1998 and sold to Ariba in 2000 for $925 million. In 2010, Reza founded NEXT Canada, an intensive philanthropic entrepreneurship program that provides education, mentorship, and start-up funding to promising entrepreneurs. Reza is the Chairman of NEXT and teaches the core entrepreneurship course at NEXT. NEXT has launched several programs including NEXT 36, NEXT AI, NEXT Founders and NEXT IPO. NEXT now has an alumni base of over 1,200 entrepreneurs that have launched over 400 ventures, raised over $3 billion of equity capital and created thousands of jobs. From 2003 to 2010, Reza was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where he created and taught a fully accredited course, The Economics of Entrepreneurship. Over the past 20 years, all of Reza’s teaching activities at University of Toronto and at NEXT have been provided as part of his charitable endeavours. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Reza was a General Partner and Managing Director at Fenway Partners, a $1.4 billion New York based private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies, and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group. Reza serves on the Board of Directors of Sagicor Financial Corporation, a public life insurance company, as well as several privately held corporations. He also serves on several non-profit boards including Strategic Advisor to the Creative Destruction Lab. Reza has received “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40” Award and the Management Achievement Award from McGill University. He was also the Co-Chair of his HBS Class of 1996 20th Year Reunion. Reza has a BA from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Pietro Satriano is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He sits on the boards of CarMax, the largest omni-channel used car retailer in the U.S. and Metro, a large regional grocery retailer in Canada. Pietro advises a number of food-tech startups and acts as a Senior Advisor in the Consumer practice area of the Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the board of the Economic Club of Chicago. Pietro brings extensive experience in both B2C and B2B. From 2015 to 2022, Pietro was Chairman and CEO of US Foods, a $30BN foodservice distributor. Pietro joined US Foods in 2011 as Chief Merchandising Officer, architecting its differentiation strategy for which it is well known today. As CEO, he took the company public for its private equity sponsors. He also oversaw ten tuck-in and two transformative acquisitions. Prior to US Foods, Pietro was President of Loyalty One Canada, operators of the Air Miles Reward Program, the frequent shopper loyalty program in which two thirds of Canadians are active. Prior to Loyalty One, he was EVP Food Segment for Loblaw Companies, responsible for all merchandising activities for Canada’s largest food retailer, and EVP Loblaw Brands, responsible for the two largest packaged food brands in Canada. Pietro started his career in strategy consulting, first with the Canada Consulting Group in Toronto, and subsequently helping to establish the Milan office of Monitor Company. Experience in the marketing and sales realm includes: repositioning a major consumer brand, expanding the importance of private label, bringing advanced analytics to merchandising practices, optimizing a salesforce, and revamping marketing and e-commerce capabilities. On the operational realm, Pietro has led the redesign of large organizations to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency, and led the adoption of lean practices in a distributed warehouse environment. Throughout his time as an executive, Pietro has brought a focus on the customer and innovation, enabled by cultivating a culture of straight talk, teamwork and accountability. Pietro has an A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He has served as a consultant to over 340 companies including startups, medium-size firms, and large international corporations. And, he has participated in well over 170 executive education programs outside of Harvard for corporations and associations. He taught a wide variety of MBA courses including Industrial Marketing, Sales Management, Creative Marketing Strategy, Integrated Product Line Management, and participated in many executive programs. Professor Shapiro has also held many administrative positions including Senior Associate Dean for Publications, Research Director, Head of the Required MBA Marketing Course, Chair of the First Year of the MBA Program, and Faculty Chair of Strategic Marketing Management for senior marketing executives. He is the author, co-author or editor of 14 books, and 19 Harvard Business Review articles including "Leveraging to Beat the Odds: The New Marketing Mind-Set," "What the Hell is 'Market Oriented'?," "Manage Customers for Profits, Not Just Sales" and "Staple Yourself to an Order". Professor Shapiro holds a BSE (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Michigan as well as MBA (with distinction) and DBA degrees from Harvard. Recently, Professor Shapiro has concentrated his professional time on consulting, speeches, research, and writing. He has taught in a wide variety of Harvard executive programs including the Aligning Strategy & Sales, CEO Program, and Business Marketing Strategy, and has chaired the Sustainable Market Leadership for Mid-Sized Businesses Program. He also has chaired custom executive programs for the Young Presidents’ Organization on Sustainable Market Leadership, Business-to-Business Pricing, Go-To-Market Strategies, and “Jump Start Your Revenue Growth.” He has also participated in a wide range of pro bono consulting projects for select nonprofit organizations, amplifying and building on a continuing theme since his early days on the Harvard faculty. Among his latest activities, Professor Shapiro has acted as an instructor, mentor, venture coach, and strategic consultant in the Our Generation Speaks Program at Brandeis University, which brings young Palestinian and Jewish “shaker and movers” from Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank) and Israel to an intensive summer program teaching management, entrepreneurship, and cooperation across the ethnic divide. His 20th Harvard Business Review article will appear in 2022 and was written with three co-authors. It deals with the application of artificial intelligence to selling and sales management. That research project is likely to yield a series of articles and case studies on the general topic. His other major research stream is focused on “the secret sauce of organizational and managerial success.” Ben Shapiro has an office located in Auburndale, MA: B.P. Shapiro, Inc., 125 Seminary Avenue, #133, Auburndale, MA 02466 Phone: (617-527-1702), E-Mail: bshapiro@hbs.edu
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Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit and chairs the MBA Required Course of the same name. He has taught elective courses in supply chain management and operations strategy as well as in Harvard University's Economics Department. He has also served as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning.He graduated from M.I.T. with an S.B. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Operations Research, and an E.E. in Electrical Engineering. After some time designing computer models for radar tracking with Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., he spent several years as an associate with Control Analysis Corp., a small Palo Alto, California-based consulting firm while obtaining a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University. Professor Shapiro researches innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain, so as to reduce or eliminate redundant activities. His work addresses coordinating mechanisms (e.g., continuous product replenishment, CPFR) that tie different supply chain entities together; how the attendant relationships are defined, forged, and managed; and information flows among relationship partners and how they are effectively generated, shared, and communicated.Professor Shapiro has designed and/or taught executive programs for companies including Arthur Andersen, Ciba-Geigy, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Sara Lee, Schneider Electric, and Unilever. He has served as a consultant in both the public and private sectors: for Boston's Children's Hospital, the states of New York and California, and the Steel Service Center Institute; and for firms including Barilla, Eastman Kodak, Italtel, Johnson & Johnson, Frito-Lay, Perkin Elmer, and others. In addition to his activities in the U.S., Professor Shapiro has designed and taught executive programs and consulted in the U.K., Finland, France, Italy, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, China and Japan.
Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. His expertise is in manufacturing, product development, and supply chains, and he has written or co-authored numerous cases and teaching materials in industries ranging from semiconductors, information technology, consumer electronics, aerospace, transportation equipment, manufacturing processes and tools, and intellectual property. Prior to coming to HBS in 2007, Willy spent 28 years in industry at IBM, Digital Equipment, Silicon Graphics, Eastman Kodak, and Thomson SA. He worked in product development and manufacturing in a wide range of areas including computer systems, scientific instruments, semiconductors, digital cameras, optical discs and software systems. Reporting to him have been major manufacturing operations in the United States, China, Ireland, Japan, and Mexico, as well as global sales and marketing operations. He has led the building of billion dollar revenue businesses. Willy is on the Board of Directors of Nextracker LLC, a maker of smart solar tracker solutions. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness reporting to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, as well as the Industrial Advisory Committee working on the CHIPS and Sceince Act for Commerce. He has two S.B. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Life Member of the IEEE.
Emil Siriwardane is an associate professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. Professor Siriwardane’s research studies the ways in which financial intermediaries influence capital markets, how perceptions of risk impact business cycles, and more recently, how public pensions make investment decisions. Professor Siriwardane earned his PhD in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a BSE in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University.
Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship. Professor Stevenson is its first incumbent. The program for entrepreneurial studies uses a multi-disciplinary approach to the creation and maintenance of entrepreneurial focus of business organizations. He served as the Vice Provost for Harvard University Resources and Planning and as Senior Associate Provost from 2005 to 2007. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations at Harvard Business School from 2001 to 2005 he led the successful capital campaign. From 1999 to 2001 he served as Chair of the Latin American Faculty Advisory Group. He also served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Financial and Information Systems for Harvard Business School from 1991 to 1994. He has been chairperson of the Owner/President Management Program in Executive Education and of the Publications Review Board for the Harvard Business School Press of Harvard Business Publishing Company. Howard was a founder and first president of the Baupost Group, Inc. which manages partnerships investing in liquid securities for wealthy families. When he resigned from active management, Baupost assets had grown to over $400 million. He is now co-chairman of the Advisory Board of Baupost LLC, a $27 billion registered investment company. From 1978 to 1982, Professor Stevenson was Vice President of Finance and Administration and a Director of Preco Corporation, a large privately-held manufacturing company. In addition, in 1970-71, he served as Vice President of Simmons Associates, a small investment banking firm specializing in venture financing. Prior to 1978, he held various academic appointments at Harvard University, specializing in Real Property Asset Management and General Management. He received his B.S. in mathematics, with distinction, from Stanford and his M.B.A., with high distinction, and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard University. He was a recipient of the ALCOA and Ford Foundation Fellowships for graduate study. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in 2007 by the Universite de Montreal. He has authored, edited or co-authored twelve books and forty-two articles including New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, with Michael J. Roberts and H. Irving Grousbeck; Policy Formulation and Administration, with C.R. Christensen, N. Berg and M. Salter; The Entrepreneurial Venture with William Sahlman, 'The Importance of Entrepreneurship' and 'Capital Market Myopia,' with William Sahlman; 'A Perspective on Entrepreneurship,' and 'Preserving Entrepreneurship As You Grow.' 'The Heart of Entrepreneurship', 'How Small Companies Should Deal with Advisers', 'Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay' and 'Success That Lasts' have appeared in The Harvard Business Review. Other scholarly papers of his have appeared in Sloan Management Review, Real Estate Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Strategy , Strategic Management Journal and elsewhere. He has also authored, co-authored or supervised over one-hundred fifty cases at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, published by HBS Press and co-author, with David Amis, of Winning Angels: The Seven Fundamentals of Early Stage Investing. He co-authored with Laura Nash Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life and with Eileen C. Shapiro Make Your Own Luck; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector was written with Jane Wei-Skillern, James E. Austin, and Herman Leonard; Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way was written with Shirley Spence. He is currently a director of Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. as well as a trustee for several private trusts and foundations. He is a life trustee of the Boston Ballet and has been a director of Sudbury Valley Trustees where he served as president from 1996 to 2000. He is on the board of National Public Radio and served as chairman of National Public Radio Board of Directors from 2008-2010. He is a trustee of Mount Auburn Hospital and a trustee emeritus of the Nature Conservancy. He is a member of the governing board of INSPER School of Business in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a trustee of Olin College of Engineering a trustee of the Museum of Science and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and at IZA. Professor Tabellini studies the political and the economic effects of immigration. His research also seeks to understand which factors facilitate or hinder immigrant assimilation, how the presence of different ethnic groups in a society influences inter-group relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and the social integration of under-represented segments of the population. To answer these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of Europeans and by the first migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North of the US. More recently, Marco has also analyzed the effects of the second Great Migration of African Americans between 1940 and 1970, investigating how this episode contributed to the development of the Civil Rights movement, both in the South and in the North of the United States. Professor Tabellini earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and spent the academic year 2018-2019 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School before joining the faculty. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
Jo Tango is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He helps teach "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (TEM), a required course for all 900 first-year students and of which he is co-course head. Jo revamped and helps teach an elective course on Venture Capital and Private Equity in which 180 students enroll. He also serves as a Section Chair. He founded early-stage venture capital firm Kepha Partners and has been a venture capital investor since 1998. VC experience: An investor in three exited Unicorns. A founding or first institutional investor in Azuki Systems (Ericsson), Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK; sale to VMware), ExaGrid (Lead Edge Capital), Goby (NAVTEQ), Mavrck, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems (TIBCO), Vertica Systems (Hewlett-Packard), Virtual Iron (Oracle), and Volt Active Data; other investments include Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Digital Market (Agile Software), and NextCard (NASDAQ: NXCD). Previously at Highland Capital Partners (General Partner). Other: Bain & Company (strategy consulting in the U.S., Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand), Wasserstein Perella (M&A), Bain Capital (private equity), Salomon Brothers (equity research). Education: Yale College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar). Current and prior volunteer work: Harvard Business School Alumni Board (Executive Committee, Lifelong Learning Working Group Co-Chair, Nominations Committee), Harvard Business School class reunions (Co-Chair of 5th, 10th, 15th, 25th, and 30th), The Roxbury Latin School (Trustee, Parents' Fund Chair, Development Committee Co-Chair), New England Venture Capital Association (Board), NECINA (Board), Boston Archdiocese Clergy Retirement Trust (Investment Committee). Personal: Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a few suitcases and $1,500. His personal blog is here. Details on his family's angel program to "leverage capitalism for altruism" are here.
David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he served as dean from 2011 to 2016. During his tenure as dean, he created a culture committed to creating transformational educational experiences that prepare students to become principled and globally minded leaders poised to serve both business and society. He joined Georgetown McDonough in 2011 following a two-decade career at Harvard Business School. While there Thomas enhanced academic and professional opportunities for the school’s undergraduate and graduate students, including a curriculum redesign and expansion of career management activities for MBA students and the addition of the Global Business Experience and an Office of Professional Development for undergraduates. He also increased the diversity of faculty and staff, launched new research initiatives and increased research funding, grew Executive Education program revenues by 400 percent, and grew the school’s endowment and increased philanthropic giving, ending the school’s capital campaign $30 million above its $100 million fundraising goal. Partnering with the Washington, D.C., community while at Georgetown McDonough, Thomas was a member of the Federal City Council, and in 2014, the Washington Business Journal recognized him as a top Minority Business Leader. Thomas received a bachelor’s degree, as well as masters and doctoral degrees in Organizational Behavior, from Yale University. He also holds a master’s in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. He currently is a member of the Board of Governors for the American Red Cross, the Board of Directors of DTE Energy, and the Estoril Conferences Advisory Board. He also is an industry advisor for Brightwood Capital Advisors.
Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS. She has led as a co-founder, President, and Chief Curriculum Officer focusing specifically on building organizations and systems, developing leaders and closely aligning programs and products with marketplace need. Burns Thompson teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability and FIELD Immersion (Birmingham) at Harvard Business School. She is also the faculty co-lead in a collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education to develop and deliver the Certificate for School Management and Leadership (CSML): designed to provide preK-12 school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to drive change and lead high performing schools. This entrepreneurial venture launched in 2018, using HBS Online, and has had over 16,000 participants. Prior to HBS, Burns Thompson was the co-founder and President of Teach Plus, a national non-profit that trains excellent, experienced teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that affect their profession and their student’s success. Teach Plus trained over 30,000 teacher leaders during its founding years and those leaders have introduced groundbreaking policies at the district, state and federal level, and partnered with districts to use teacher instructional leadership to turn around failing schools. Burns Thompson was also co-founder, President and Chief Curriculum Officer of what FastCompany Magazine has called “one of the top ten companies changing the world,” New Leaders for New Schools. Her primary focus was the development, management and delivery of a world class training curriculum that focuses on giving new principals concrete skills in instructional and managerial leadership. New Leaders is now the largest recruiter and trainer of school leaders in the US. When not an entrepreneur, Burns Thompson has spent her time working inside districts and the charter sector with leaders who are focused on change. This included as a consultant with The McKenzie Group in Washington, DC (opening four middle schools for DCPS) and spending a year as the assistant principal of one of those schools. Being the Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the Philadelphia Public School District and leading the implementation of a $45 million productivity and efficiency program, leading the long-range planning process for a $765 million building maintenance report, and negotiating a ground-breaking contract with the National Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers Local 1201. While working on her doctorate at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Monique was a leadership coach and consultant for 14 charter school in Massachusetts. She has consulted in the area of management, operations, and training for organizations that want to ensure they are providing the highest quality learning experience for their students. Her business career started at the Quaker Oats Co. in marketing and brand management and she credits Quaker for her foundational learning in marketing. “If you can sell Pup-peroni dog treats, you can sell anything.” Burns Thompson earned her Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College, her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her Master’s in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is ABD for her doctorate in Education Administration and Social Policy. Burns Thompson is the proud mother of two daughters. She keeps her balance in this world by running long distances slowly, skiing quickly, and traveling whenever possible.
Emily Truelove is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA program. She also teaches in executive education programs, including Leadership for Senior Executives, High Potentials Leadership Program, Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, and custom programs. Professor Truelove’s research is at the intersection of leadership, organizational change and technological innovation. She is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies organizations undergoing major transformation efforts due to technological change. Her particular interest is in the cultural, political and emotional challenges that these transformations bring leaders and employees. Professor Truelove also has a line of research in which she examines the relationship between leadership and innovation. She is a co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). Professor Truelove has served as a keynote speaker at conferences and corporate leadership development events across the world. She has designed and delivered custom workshops on her research for senior executives at organizations including Qatar Energy, American Express, Viacom and NASA. Her research has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. Professor Truelove has a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She has lived and worked in South Africa and Malaysia.
Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers on growth and innovation strategy in the technology industry. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Professor Wu is a founder, director, investor, or advisor of several technology ventures. He holds several patents across rapid prototyping, medical imaging, robotics, and e-commerce. He and his work have been featured on CNN, CBS News, National Public Radio, Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg. He received a PhD and MS in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior fellow at the school’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. While at Wharton, he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He earned his SB in economics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Burchard Scholar.
Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. Over the last two and a half decades, Professor Yoffie chaired the HBS Strategy department (1997-2002), the Advanced Management Program (1999-2002), Harvard's Young Presidents' Organization program (2004-2012), Harvard’s YPO Gold program (2012-2022), and Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms (2020-present). From 2006-2012, he served as Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the HBS executive education programs. During his tenure, executive education revenues grew almost 75%, classrooms were opened in Shanghai and Mumbai, a new executive education building complex was launched, and HBS became the highest rated and largest business school in executive education in the world. Professor Yoffie currently teaches a popular elective MBA course, Strategy & Technology. Professor Yoffie's research and consulting have focused on competitive strategy, technology, and international competition. Outside of HBS, Professor Yoffie's activities include being on the Board of Directors of HTC Corporation and Ampere Computing, and the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Yoffie was on the Board of Directors of Intel for 29 years, where he served as Lead Director and chaired numerous committees, including Nominating & Governance, Compensation, and Finance. When appointed to Intel's board in 1989, he was the youngest outside director of America's largest 150 industrial corporations. Over the two last decades, Professor Yoffie has served on the boards of many public and private companies, including Charles Schwab, TiVo, Financial Engines, Spotfire, Mindtree Ltd, and E Ink. Professor Yoffie has also lectured and consulted in more than 30 countries around the world. In addition, he served as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice's commission on international antitrust. Professor Yoffie's writings on business strategy and technology have been widely published. Professor Yoffie is the author or co-author of ten books, including The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation and Power (Harper Business, 2019), which is being translated into 10 languages; and Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs (Harper Business, 2015), which has been translated into 18 languages. His other books include Judo Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2001), and Competing on Internet Time (Free Press, 1998). BusinessWeek and Amazon.com named Competing on Internet Time as one of the top ten business books of 1998. Professor Yoffie has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as more than 50 scholarly and managerial articles on international trade, firm strategy, and global competition. Professor Yoffie has published more than 200 case studies and teaching notes on technology, business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 4 million copies.
*Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991 Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75; University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91 *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University; MBA Degree Received from: The University of Chicago; AB Degree Received from: Bates College Gerald Zaltman is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a former member of the Executive Committee of Harvard University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. He was previously Co-Director of The Mind of the Market Laboratory at HBS. He is a co-founder and senior partner in the research based consulting firm of Olson Zaltman Associates whose clients include some of the world’s most respected firms and brands. Professor Zaltman holds a Ph.D in sociology from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A from the University of Chicago, and an A.B. in government from Bates College. Professor Zaltman held positions at Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh before joining Harvard University in 1991. His research interests focus on customer behavior and marketing strategy. His book, How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market (2003) has been translated into 15 languages. It has received several awards and has ranked among the top five selling business books in North America and Europe. His newest book, co-authored with Lindsay Zaltman, is Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers (2008). This book addresses the deep metaphors or unconscious frames people use that influence their thinking and behavior. Professor Zaltman’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Forbes, US News & World Report, Time, Fast Company Magazine, American Demographics, and other major publications. Professor Zaltman is a consultant to corporations around the globe and frequent keynote speaker at major conferences. He holds three patents for market research tools including the patent on the use of neuroimaging in marketing. Another patent, ZMET, is used around the world by major firms and international agencies. It has been described by several writers as the most significant innovation in market research in more than two decades. Professor Zaltman has authored numerous books in the areas of social change, marketing, and the use of knowledge and has published widely in the major journals in marketing and the social sciences. He is a current or past member of the editorial boards of numerous journals in marketing and the social sciences. He is a past President of the Association for Consumer Research. His awards include the American Marketing Association's Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award in 1989, The Association for Consumer Research Distinguished Fellow Award in 1990, the Knowledge Utilization Society's Thomas J. Kiresuk Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in 1992, the JAI Press Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Marketing Advances in 2000, the ARF Member Recognition Award in 2007, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Buck Weaver Award sponsored by General Motors in 2008 for outstanding work in bringing knowledge and practice together. Gerald Zaltman has been named an American Marketing Association Fellow. The distinction of AMA Fellow is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the research, theory and practice of marketing, and to the service and activities of the AMA over a prolonged period of time. In October 2015 Gerald Zaltman will be the fourth recipient of the Sheth Foundation Gold Medal for Exceptional Contributions to Marketing Scholarship and Practice. The award recognizes Jerry’s enduring and transformational contributions to marketing scholarship. Recent Publications Current Research ZMET Home Page Fortune Magazine article on ZMET --> Fast Company article on Prof. Zaltman's research.
Shunyuan Zhang is an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zhang studies the sharing economy and the marketing problems that the dynamics of this new economy present. She deploys machine learning methods including deep learning to extract useful information from unstructured data. Combining this information with structured data, Professor Zhang conducts thorough analysis and policy simulations to examine important issues emerging in the sharing economy arena. Professor Zhang earned a Ph.D. in Marketing/Business Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. She has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. In a separate line of research, she investigates the factors that shape individual preferences and beliefs - including those related to labor market decisions.
Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and entertainment strategy, corporate strategy, and organizational change. His work has examined competition in information goods markets, focusing on two central challenges that firms increasingly face: “getting noticed” amidst the increasing clutter of alternatives available to consumers, and “getting paid” for what they produce. His recent book, The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change (Random House) examines digital transformation in content industries, with a view to distilling the learnings from a quarter century of change that might inform digital efforts elsewhere. The book has received acclaim for its perspective on strategy and digital transformation, and was named as one of Fast Company’s top ten business books of 2016, Bloomberg’s “Best Books of 2017”, and received the Axiom Best Business Book Award in “Business Theory” (Silver) in 2018. Professor Anand's papers have shed light on the roles of branding and advertising as vehicles of matching and information, on competition between cable news networks, and on strategies that firms employ to tackle the challenge of weak or insecure property rights. In prior work, he studied the financing of R&D, the structure of technology licensing contracts, and the industrial organization of financial intermediation markets. His papers have been published in several leading journals in economics, marketing, and strategy, and received various awards. Professor Anand created Harvard Business School’s first executive program on digital strategies for media companies, and was a faculty co-founder of HBS’ interdisciplinary research initiative on digital issues. He has authored numerous case studies in business and corporate strategy, including those on Danaher, The Economist, International Management Group, News Corporation, Random House, and Schibsted. His research and case writing has received various awards, and his work has been profiled in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., and Bloomberg. His work on digital transformation has influenced both start-ups and established companies, and he has advised leading organizations and entrepreneurs across the globe.Professor Anand has served as faculty head of the required Strategy course in the MBA program, has taught Strategy in the General Management Program, and has served as faculty chair of various executive programs at the school. For several years, he taught the popular second-year elective course in Corporate Strategy in the MBA elective curriculum, for which he received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at HBS from the MBA class of 2006 and the MBA class of 2007. Professor Anand helped create Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative, HBS Online (formerly, HBX), in 2014, and served as its first faculty chair and Senior Associate Dean. He helped oversee the design and creation of HBX’s digital learning platforms, and created one of its first online courses. HBS Online has received accolades for its innovative approach to online pedagogy, and its virtual classroom has been described by Fortune as the “Classroom of the Future.” In his current role as Vice Provost, Professor Anand has led Harvard University's efforts to formulate, communicate, and implement strategic priorities around online learning and residential teaching across the University. He was part of Harvard's central leadership team to support and oversee the University’s transition to remote teaching during the pandemic, and more recently he chaired Harvard's Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force that explored post-pandemic digitally-enabled transformative teaching and learning strategic opportunities for Harvard University. Professor Anand received his B.A. in economics from Harvard College magna cum laude, and his PhD in economics from Princeton University. He is a recipient of the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School, and the Apgar Award for Innovations in Teaching.
Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School. She has also played a leading role in developing and delivering HBS Executive Education Programs for entrepreneurs and business owners, most recently as Faculty Chair of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Faculty Chair of the HBS Executive Programs for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1986, she also served as Co-Chair of the HBS MBA Program, Chair of Field Based Learning, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Networked Government Services. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Lynda was on the faculty at the University of Michigan, University of Washington, and University of Arizona. Lynda has also been an active consultant and mentor to high growth businesses and has served as a Director on venture-backed, publicly traded, and nonprofit boards. Prior to beginning her academic career, Lynda served in a variety of leadership roles in the healthcare industry. Lynda’s research and publications focus on the challenges of building new ventures and leading radical business innovation in the face of significant industry, technological, capital market, and regulatory turbulence. A second stream of research examines emerging leadership and governance models to support entrepreneurial ecosystem evolution and inter-firm collaboration and innovation. During the Global Economic Crisis, she began conducting research on how entrepreneurial leaders innovate through crisis and build resilient organizations. During the past few years, this research expanded to address issues of assuring economic equality for women and for minority entrepreneurs and business owners. In partnership with the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, where she serves on the Board of Trustees, Lynda recently helped launch a Board Ready Bootcamp to prepare women and minority business leaders to serve as Board Members on for-profit and non-profit boards and she is also a member of a working group that has successfully launched a Compact for Social Justice that has been signed by over 80 of the largest technology companies located in Massachusetts. In addition to serving as Series Editor for Harvard Business Publishing’s Core Readings in Entrepreneurship, Lynda is the author of over 40 articles, books, and book chapters, and over 400 published case studies, online learning DVDs, and course materials. Lynda is the recipient of numerous HBS awards for her research, teaching, and service to the school. She recently received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for her outstanding contributions to HBS over the course of her career. She has also received Harvard Business School’s Berol Award for Research Excellence and its Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Lynda has won numerous “Best Paper” awards for her academic research on 21st century business models and executive team decision-making and collaboration, and has served as a Senior Editor and on the editorial boards for leading research journals in the field of technology innovation. More recently, she also received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her decades of work with the Women Presidents Organization. Lynda is an active international consultant and has served on the board of directors of public, private, non-profit and venture-backed companies. She is an advisor and advisory board member for entrepreneurs launching new ventures and for senior executives leading innovation in established companies. In the past, Lynda has also served as a member of the Industry Advisory Board for NASDAQ and as a member of the Executive Council for Information Technology and Management for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She also served as a policy advisor on a Blue-Ribbon Panel to define a National Research Agenda on the development of the Network Economy and, in the late 1990s, served as a member of President Clinton’s Roundtable on Critical Infrastructure Protection. September 2020
Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required curriculum and an elective course titled Managing Customers for Growth. As a marketing modeler, Professor Ascarza uses tools from statistics, economics, and machine learning to answer relevant marketing questions. Her main research areas are customer management (with special attention to the problem of customer retention), Personalization and Targeting, Marketing AI, and algorithmic decision making. She uses field experimentation (e.g., A/B testing) as well as econometric modeling and machine learning tools not only to understand and predict patterns of behavior, but also to optimize the impact of firms’ interventions. Her research has appeared in leading journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She received the 2014 Frank Bass award, awarded to the best marketing paper derived from a Ph.D. thesis published in an INFORMS-sponsored journal. Her research has been recognized as a Paul E. Green Award finalist (2016 and 2017) and winner (2018), awarded to the best article in the Journal of Marketing Research that demonstrates the greatest potential to contribute significantly to the practice of marketing research. Her research has been recognized as a Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award finalist (2021) and winner (203), awarded to research that has made the most significant long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice. She was named a Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar in 2017, received the Erin Anderson Award for an Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor in 2019, and was named MSI Scholar in 2020. She serves on the editorial review board of several top marketing journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. Professor Ascarza earned a Ph.D. in marketing from London Business School, a B.S. in mathematics at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), and a M.S. in economics and finance from Universidad de Navarra (Spain). Prior to joining HBS, she was an associate professor in the marketing department at Columbia Business School.
Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior, and inefficiency in capital markets. His finance cases span numerous industries, with a recent emphasis on life sciences businesses and digital health. Professor Baker has made numerous presentations to academic and practitioner audiences. His research awards include the Brattle Prize, given annually by the American Finance Association to the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance, second place for the Jensen Prize, given annually by the Journal of Financial Economics, the Sharpe Award, given annually by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Graham and Dodd Scroll, given annually by the Financial Analysts Journal. He has served as associate editor for the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. Baker was Unit Head for finance from 2014 to 2018 and Program Director for corporate finance at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. He has been a course head in the MBA required curriculum at Harvard Business School, he has taught in the MBA elective curriculum and several executive education programs, he has developed elective courses in investment strategies, behavioral finance, and investing in life sciences, and he has received the MBA teaching award on two occasions. Baker received a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in finance from Cambridge University, and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics-economics from Brown University. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he was a senior associate at Charles River Associates and a member of the US Olympic rowing team. Outside of Harvard, he serves as Director of Research at Acadian Asset Management, an institutional asset management firm focusing in active global and international equity strategies, as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Economics at Brown University, and as a member of the executive committee of Diesel Athletic Club. He was a director at Triton International, the world's largest intermodal container leasing company, and its predecessor TAL, from 2006 through 2023.
David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head. During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk management, retailing, ethics, and managerial economics. Professor Bell runs the annual Agribusiness Seminar for executives and has taught an MBA course on the same topic. He has held a number of administrative positions at HBS including head of the Program for Management Development (PMD, 2002-06), terms as chairman of the School’s marketing faculty (2002-08, 2013-19) and as Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Recruiting (2008-12, 2016-18). David has a BA degree from Oxford University and a PhD from MIT.
Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum and teaches in numerous focused and custom Executive Education programs at the School. He is the faculty chair of the Transforming Customer Experiences Executive Education program, and has also taught the Technology and Operations Management course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Buell received the Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching in Executive Education in 2016 and was recognized by the Class of 2024 with the Faculty Teaching Award for his teaching in the MBA Program. Professor Buell’s research investigates the interactions between service businesses and their customers, and how operational choices affect customer behaviors and firm performance. He is affiliated with the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. His work has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Service Management, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Marketing Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Harvard Business Review. It has also received media attention from outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Wired, and The Huffington Post. Professor Buell was the recipient of the Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award in 2019 and the Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students in 2024. Professor Buell earned a DBA in Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School, where he received the Dean's Award and the Wyss Doctoral Research Award. He also received an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar, and a BBA with high distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to his graduate studies, Professor Buell co-founded and managed the Tour Now Network, an online real estate virtual tour service. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company and General Motors.
Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager performance. Cohen has studied the differential reactions of institutions and individuals to news about firms and the economy, as well as the effect of institutional trading on stock prices. He also writes and speaks about municipal securities, ESG investing, and many other topics. Cohen has a strong interest in liquid alternative investments and for over two decades has been working to develop the concept of liquid private equity. Cohen teaches two classes, Field X and Field Y, which help students launch and grow businesses while at HBS (and other parts of Harvard and surrounding universities). He also co-teaches the Alternative Investments course for HBS Online. In addition to his research and teaching, Cohen has helped to start and grow several investment management firms, while also acting as a consultant to many others. Randy serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired; on his podcast Dangerous Vision he interviews fascinating people who are in some way connected to the world of vision loss. Cohen holds an AB in mathematics from Harvard College and a PhD in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.
For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in the Strategy group at the Harvard Business School, having also completed five years as the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale School of Management and two years as a professor at Columbia Business School. The winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 2008, and a Harvard Business Review best-selling author, he is an expert on corporate strategy and global competition, and is the author of the recent books International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Choices; Corporate Strategy (with Cynthia Montgomery); and Corporate Headquarters (with Michael Goold and David Young). Professor Collis is on the faculty for several HBS Executive Education programs, including Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, and cochairs Building and Sustaining Value Across Markets. As the author of over thirty articles and book chapters, his work has been frequently published in the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and in many books including Managing the Multibusiness Company, International Competitiveness, and Beyond Free Trade. The over one hundred cases and articles he has authored have sold nearly 2.5 million copies, with over 14,000 citations. David Collis received an M.A. (1976) with a Double First from Cambridge University where he was the Wrenbury Scholar of the University. He graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, MBA (1978), and received a Ph.D. (1986) in Business Economics at Harvard University where he was a Dean's Doctoral Fellow. From 1978 to 1982 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London. He is currently a consultant to several major U.S. corporations, and on the Board of Directors of Cambridge in America, the Board of Trustees of the Hult International Business School, and the Advisory Boards of Vivaldi Partners, Muzzy Lane and formerly of Walter Scott PICIS, Ocean Spray, and WebCT. He is also the cofounder of the elearning company E-Edge, and the advisory firm Ludlow Partners.
Jake Cook is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an entrepreneur with a deep-seated passion for e-commerce, digital marketing, and AI. As a Cofounder and CEO of Tadpull, Jake leads a team of data scientists, software engineers and digital marketers focused on helping merchants and private equity investors achieve remarkable returns in the ecommerce space through the use of AI for customer acquisition and retention with inventory optimization. Clients have included Vivint, HIG, Caterpillar, Jackson Hole Resort, and DonorsChoose.org. These methodologies and frameworks provide the underpinnings for the course, Digital Marketing Workshop, which seeks to give students hands-on experiences for modern marketing across SEO, Paid Media, Influencer and Amazon Marketing, along with fundamentals of online analytics and data visualization. The course also explores emerging topics like privacy and data along with the use of generative AI. Straddling academia and industry, he frequently collaborates with faculty on research topics and case studies around customer lifetime value, digital channel mix, and entrepreneurship. Jake holds a BA (physics) and an MA (marketing communications) from Drury University.
Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for Executive Education, for Faculty Development, and for Faculty Recruiting. A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, Datar received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A Chartered Accountant, he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Datar’s research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking and innovative problem solving, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has published his work on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives, and performance evaluation in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. He is a co-author of the leading cost accounting textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice-Hall) and of Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press). He has authored more than 30 cases on topics ranging from Data Science at Target to Nippon Steel. Datar has taught MBA and executive education classes in design thinking, innovation, big data, and strategy implementation. Before joining the HBS faculty he held appointments at both Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, where he received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom and the Distinguished Teaching Award, respectively. Datar serves on the Board of Directors of ICF International, Stryker Corporation, and T-Mobile US, and has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. He was honored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as the Public Company Director for 2020. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and presented his research to academic and executives audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980 and became the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration. He served as the Chairman of the Marketing area from 1986 to 1994. He has also been a visiting professor at IESE in Barcelona, Spain.In 2001, he became the Dean of the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The School offered the broadest portfolio of degree programs among the leading business schools with the following degrees: Bachelor's of Business Administration, MBA (offered in five different formats - Day, Evening, Weekend, Executive and Global), Master's in Supply Chain Management, Master's in Accounting, and Ph.D. In addition, the School collaborated with two schools at the University to offer two joint Master's programs - the Erb Program in Sustainability (joint with the School of Natural Resources and Environment) and the Tauber Program on Global Operations (joint with the College of Engineering).Under Dolan's leadership, the School embarked on a strategy of differentiation via a focus on action-based learning where teams of students undertook field-based projects under the supervision of the faculty. For MBA students, this took the form of the Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) program in which two months at the end of the first year required courses were dedicated to working on high level projects with leading companies around the world. To afford students an opportunity for a global experience, over half the projects were outside the United States. These projects were deliberately not pre-defined for the students, affording them the opportunity to define issues and operate in an "opportunity sensing" rather than just "problem solving" mode. As a result of these investments in innovative action-learning programs, the School was twice named the Best MBA Program in the world by the Wall Street Journal, based on their polling of recruiters. The Aspen Institute recognized the school as the best in training on issues of sustainability. To obtain the financial resources to support this strategy and the needed infrastructure, the School embarked on a Capital Campaign, raising nearly $400 million, including the $100 million dollar gift obtained by Dolan from Stephen M Ross, a New York real estate developer. At the time, it was the largest gift ever made to a business school and still is the largest ever given to the University of Michigan. The Schools is now known as the Ross School of Business. While at Michigan, Dolan was also President of the William Davidson Institute for Global Economies and the Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. He was also special counsel to the Provost on Visioning the future at the University.An expert in marketing and, in particular, issues of pricing and new product development, Dolan has authored or coauthored eight books and has published in a wide variety of journals including the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Science and the Journal of Marketing. His case studies and technical notes developed at Harvard Business School are among the most widely used in academia, selling over 2.5 million copies. One of his cases, Sealed Air Corporation, with sales of over 300,000 copies, was recently designated by Harvard as one of the three "classics" in the Harvard collection. He has consulted with and provided executive education for leading firms throughout the world including General Electric, IBM and Henkel. He also was the marketing expert in several of the landmark cases tried in the United States including for Polaroid in its award of over $1 billion for patent infringement from Kodak and for the Justice Department of the United States in its actions against the tobacco companies. He has been on the board of directors of four publicly traded companies. He is currently working on his ninth book on contemporary marketing issues.
Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial regulations, and emerging market finance. She was the recipient of 2022 Award for Economics in Central Banking, and was named the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow 2021-2023. Prior to joining Harvard, Du was Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also held full-time positions as Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was a central bank research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-leads the initiative on Market Frictions and Financial Risks, and currently serves on the academic advisory committee for the Bank for International Settlements and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She is also an associate editor at the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. She earned an A.M. and a Ph.D. both in Economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors.
Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and co-Principal Investigator of the Platform Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. Her research focuses on the growth of digital platforms, such as Amazon and Airbnb. Her work explores key decisions managers need to make when crafting growth strategies that attract new users and intensify use by existing platform participants. Because platform growth and, in some cases, dominance raise a host of important questions for consumers, competitors, and policymakers, her work also examines the costs and benefits of alternative regulatory policies. Prof. Farronato’s research has been published in academic journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Management Science. A fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Prof. Farronato received her PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to her PhD, she studied business and economics at Bocconi University in Italy and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. At Harvard Business School, she teaches Data Science for Managers in the required curriculum, for which she received the 2024 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine intersections between gender, knowledge-transfer, technology, and discrimination within firms. Across settings and industries, she has developed three lines of research that consider (1) how new technologies and big data in the workplace are shifting men’s and women’s performance outcomes and relationship networks, (2) what men and women prioritize to do their jobs and advance their careers, and (3) the extent to which frontline employees discriminate in the information and services they provide to customers. Her research has been featured in outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Professor Feldberg earned a BA in History from Columbia College at Columbia University and an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners, a staff member at Columbia University, and an Education Pioneers Fellow with Teach For America.
Elana Feldman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management in the Manning School of Business and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Dr. Feldman is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Her research examines time/temporality and how people relate to one another in work contexts. She is a founder and steering committee member of the Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) Microcommunity. Her research has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Human Relations, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Dr. Feldman's research has been covered by Fast Company, Business Insider, BBC, and World Economic Forum (among others). She holds a Ph.D. in Management from Boston University and a B.A. in Anthropology/Biology from Brown University. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Feldman worked as a consultant and market analyst in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry as well as in talent management/leadership.
Mattias Fibiger is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) Unit. A historian by training, he conducts research on Asia's twentieth century. He teaches in the Business, Government, and International Economy course in the MBA Program's Required Curriculum as well as in various executive education programs. Since joining the faculty at HBS, he has won awards for his scholarship and his teaching.Professor Fibiger's research focuses primarily on the intersection of political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia. His first book, Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World, was published Oxford University Press in 2023. The book charts how the Indonesian leader Suharto mobilized resources made available through the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars, marshaling international aid and investment to construct a counterrevolutionary dictatorship in Indonesia and promote authoritarian reaction elsewhere in Southeast Asia. He is currently at work on a second book project on the global dollar system. Professor Fibiger has also published journal articles and book chapters on a wide array of topics.Professor Fibiger received his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. As an undergraduate, he studied history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in operations, strategy, and culture. She regularly advises senior executives embarking on large-scale change initiatives and organizational transformation. A global thought leader on leadership and change, Frances is widely recognized for her dynamic teaching and commitment to turning ideas into impact. She developed one of the most popular classes at HBS, which explores business models that reliably delight customers. She also led the design and launch of HBS’s innovative FIELD curriculum built around learning experiences that are experiential and immersive. In 2017, Frances took a leave of absence from Harvard to serve as Uber's first Senior Vice President of Leadership and Strategy with a mandate to help thousands of employees excel in a context of hyper-growth and an evolution in culture. Her firsthand experience in Silicon Valley gave her a new lens on the urgent topic of trust and informed her viral TED talk on ‘How to build (and rebuild) trust.’ Now viewed by millions, the talk delivers a crash course on stakeholder trust: how to create it, maintain it, and restore it when lost. Frances has held extensive leadership roles at HBS, including Senior Associate Dean for faculty development and recruiting, for executive education, and faculty chair for the MBA required curriculum. Within each of these roles, Frances led significant change efforts. Highlights include addressing gender gaps in satisfaction and performance for both students and faculty and expanding the reach of executive education to incorporate the evolving needs of leaders and their organizations. Frances is the best-selling author of Uncommon Service, Unleashed, and the newly released Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems. Hailed as a “masterpiece on trust, leadership, and business,” Move Fast & Fix Things offers a roadmap to accelerating change while also taking care of employees, customers, and shareholders. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeremy S. Friedman is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit and taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum over the past six years. Currently, he is teaching Business and Geopolitics in the MBA elective curriculum. Previously, he was associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University. Professor Friedman studies the history of communism, socialism, and revolution in Russia, China, and the developing world. He examines how the project of socialist revolution and leftist thought more broadly evolved over the course of the twentieth century, particularly as revolutionary battlegrounds shifted from the industrialized countries to the developing world in the wake of decolonization. His work has been published in Cold War History and Modern China Studies and in media outlets including The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Moscow Times. His first book, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, was published in 2015 and his second book Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, was published in 2022. Professor Friedman received his PhD in history from Princeton University and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in international security studies at Yale University, where he taught courses in Russian and Cold War history.
Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development; Chairman of the Executive Education Advanced Management Program; Chairman of the Finance Area at the School; and as course head for Finance in the first year of the MBA Program.Professor Fruhan is the author of Revitalizing Businesses; Financial Strategy; and The Fight for Competitive Advantage. He is co-editor of Case Problems in Finance (6th through 11th editions). His articles include "Corporate Raiders: Head'em Off at Value Gap;" "Management, Labor and the Golden Goose;" "How Fast Should Your Company Grow?;" "Is Your Stock Worth Its Market Price" (with T. R. Piper), all in the Harvard Business Review; and "Levitz Furniture: A Case History in the Creation and Destruction of Shareholder Value," Financial Analysts Journal. He has written over 140 cases and teaching notes for use in business School classrooms around the world.At various times Prof. Fruhan has served as a director of 15 different corporations. Six were firms with publicly traded stock and nine were privately owned. Professor Fruhan is one of the early developers of the concept of value based management, and currently conducts his research in developing business level and corporate strategies aimed at enhancing shareholder value.
Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable Investing and the second is an immersive field course, Development While Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net Zero, which focuses on climate related opportunities and risks in a growth economy. He also teaches Leadership & Corporate Accountability and has taught FIELD Global Immersion and The Entrepreneurial Manager, in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. Along with MBA courses, he has taught in various Executive Education programs. He is also a member of the Impact Co-Laboratory focusing on research in the area of Impact Investing. Vikram is the Founder of Asha Ventures. Asha Ventures is an impact-oriented venture capital firm that invests equity capital with a target of market-rate returns in social enterprises. In addition, Asha works with its investee companies in providing strategic and management direction, access to its network, and guidance on impact measurement and management. Its affiliated organization, Asha Trust, engages with government, business and civil society on key policy issues. Asha Trust is also a Co-Founder of The Blended Finance Company which advises and structures blended finance transactions to address important societal challenges. He is also a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is a member of the Business Administration Advisory Board at University of the People. He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 1997 and has been a part of the New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai chapters. He has spent 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School (Class of 1989) where he was designated a Baker Scholar, and a B.Com from the University of Mumbai. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. Vikram was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Global Head of the Financial Institutions Business for Credit Suisse, in New York and Hong Kong. He was a member of Credit Suisse's Global Investment Banking Management Committee and the Fixed Income Operating Committee. Prior to his tenure at Credit Suisse, Vikram worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was Co-Head of Global FIG in New York; his prior work at Morgan Stanley included heading the Firm's institutional strategy area, its Global E-commerce Committee, and as Country Head and President of Morgan Stanley India. During his career in investment banking, Vikram has focused on advising Board of Directors and CEO’s around the globe on strategic direction and the implementation of major mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings and other capital raising initiatives, and corporate restructurings and buyouts. Vikram has been involved with various developmental activities in India and globally. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Grameen Foundation, and a Board Member of KEC International. Vikram is a Founding Member of Harvard University’s South Asia Initiative, and a Founder of Ashoka University, the first liberal arts college established in India. He is also a member of The Global Leaders Circle at Harvard Business School.
Daniel Green is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. He teaches the Finance II course to MBA students. Professor Green’s research focuses on corporate finance, capital markets, and financial intermediation. His current research explores the relationship between the organization of financial markets, firm capital structure, and economic activity. He has studied this in a variety of settings, ranging from high yield debt markets to microfinance.Professor Green holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Rochester. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked in the Capital Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in the Technology, Operations and Management Unit. Encompassing a wide array of questions about computing, communication, and Internet markets, Professor Greenstein’s research extends from economic measurement and analysis to broader issues. His most recent book focuses on the development of the commercial Internet in the United States. He also publishes commentary on his blog, Digitopoly, and his work has been covered by media outlets ranging from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Fast Company and PC World. Professor Greenstein previously taught at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1989 and his BA from University of California at Berkeley in 1983, both in economics. He continues to receive a daily education in life from his wife and children.
Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Outward Bound USA for 6 years before stepping down in 1997 to work on the challenges of creating high performing nonprofit organizations. His current research focuses on business engagement in public education, leadership and management of public school districts, and leading and governing high performing nonprofit organizations. Mr. Grossman has authored or co-authored numerous cases, articles and three books including Managing School Districts for High Performance; High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact; and the Harvard Business Review article, Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists. In the MBA program, Mr. Grossman has taught, among other courses, Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. In executive education, Mr. Grossman co-founded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and HGSE; he served as faculty co-chair of PELP until 2013. He co-founded and co-chaired Performance Measurement and Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO). He has also taught in numerous other executive education programs. Before joining the nonprofit sector, he served as a Regional Chief Executive of Albert Fisher PLC and Chairman of the Board of GPC, a national distributor of packaging products. Mr. Grossman serves on and has chaired a number of nonprofit and for-profit boards. He is currently the chair of Mercy Corps, an international development organization. He received a B.S. in corporate finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance. Professor Gulati is the recipient of the 2024 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice. The award “recognizes excellence in the application of theory and research in practice,” honoring a scholar whose research generates learning from practice, who authors publications that substantively affect the practice of management, and who integrates research and practice. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. His most recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies (Harper Collins, 2022) offer a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms get purpose right. It was picked to be among the best business books of 2022 by Forbes, Thinkers 50, the Next Big Idea Club, and Axiom business books. His previous managerial book, Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization (Harvard Business Press, 2009), which was a finalist for the George Terry Best Book in Management Award, Professor Gulati explores how "resilient" companies—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and increase profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy+business, and the Financial Times. Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. He is the former Chair of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He has received a number of awards for his teaching including the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the Kellogg School where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Harvard. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC as well as a panelist on several of their series on topics that include: the Business of Innovation, Collaboration, and Leadership Vision. Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor's Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
In his research, Professor Heese focuses on corporate misconduct, with a special focus on the role of management, regulators, whistleblowers, and the media to prevent misconduct. His current work explores the role of monitoring by senior management to curtail misconduct as well as the importance of whistleblowers in detecting fraud. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He is regularly invited to present his research to academics and regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Securities and Markets Authority. Professor Heese’s research has been quoted by the media, including in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School, Professor Heese obtained a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in accounting from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press 2014), co-founder of Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient, re:Route, and re:Mind. Hill co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation. It was named by Fast Company as a 2023 “Innovative Company to Watch.” She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and 2021 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Hill’s Collective Genius has also been named to the inaugural Thinkers50 Booklist: 10 Management Classics for 2022. Hill’s research focuses on leadership development, building agile, innovative organizations, and implementing global strategies. Her current research focuses on scaling innovation and digital leadership. She is the author of highly regarded books and articles on leadership. Collective Genius was named by Business Insider as one of “The 20 Best Business Books” and received the Gold Medal for the Leadership Axiom Business Book Award. Hill’s TED talk on how to manage for collective creativity has more than 2.9 million views. In 2015, Hill, along with her co-authors, received the first Warren Bennis Prize for the Harvard Business Review article “Collective Genius,” based on the book. Hill is also the co-author of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership. In 2022, the article “Becoming the Boss,” which is based on the book Becoming a Manager, was selected as one of the most influential and innovative articles from HBR’s first century. Her books and articles have been translated into multiple languages. Hill has authored or co-authored numerous articles: including “Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets;” “Are You a High Potential?” “The Board’s New Innovation Imperative;” “Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making;” “What Makes a Great Leader?” “Being the Agile Boss;” “Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders in the Future;” and “Where Can Digital Transformation Take You?” Hill has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar, the High Potentials Leadership Program, Leading in the Digital Era, Advancing Women of Color in Leadership and Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation. She was course-head during the development of the Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course. Hill has been at the forefront of developing various innovative on-line development programs for managers, including Breakthrough Leadership, the winner of a Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology, and the award-winning multimedia management development program, High Performance Management. She is currently working on a new online course offering entitled Leading in the Digital World. Hill is a member of the Board of Directors of Relay Therapeutics and is on the Board of Trustees of the ArtCenter College of Design and of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a member of the Team8 Fintech Strategic Committee and serves on the advisory boards of several organizations including the American Repertory Theater, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the Aspen Institute Leadership Division, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Eight Inc., the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. She sits on the board of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc. and is a Special Representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. Hill is a former member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Business Publishing, State Street Corporation, The Bridgespan Group, The Eaton Corporation, and Cooper Industry. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation, the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund USA. Hill’s consulting and executive education activities have been in the areas of leadership development, leading change and innovation, implementing global strategies, digital leadership, and diversity and inclusion. Organizations with which Professor Hill has worked include the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Accenture, AREVA, Diverse Futures, The Economist, The Federal Reserve Bank, Google, Hong Kong Jockey Club, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, NASA, National Bank of Kuwait, Novartis, Proctor & Gamble, RELX, Salesforce.com, UnitedHealth Group, and The World Economic Forum. Hill completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago. She has a B.A., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.
Jillian Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum. Professor Jordan’s research investigates moral behavior and the psychology that surrounds it, with a focus on the role of reputation. When and why do individuals and organizations make costly sacrifices for moral causes, including through acts of prosociality and punishment of wrongdoers? And how are these decisions influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by our incentives to appear virtuous in the eyes of others? Professor Jordan investigates the factors that shape moral reputations, with the goal of illuminating the reputational incentives that individuals and organizations face. She also explores how these reputational incentives influence moral decision-making, and when reputation serves to align self-interest with collective goals versus create perverse incentives. Through this work, she aims to uncover how reputation systems shape behavior, what the consequences are for society, and how we might leverage reputation motives for social good. She has asked questions like: How does reputation fuel expressions of moral outrage, condemnation, and punishment? How does becoming a victim of wrongdoing shape one’s moral reputation? Is “virtue signaling” eroding the quality of moral and political discourse? Why do we hate hypocrites, and how can individuals and organizations engage morally (e.g., by expressing moral opinions, spearheading prosocial initiatives, or calling out bad behavior) while limiting the risk that they will be condemned as hypocrites if their own moral track-records fall short of perfection? Professor Jordan earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University and an A.B. in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Harvard University. Prior to joining HBS, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her work has been published in numerous academic journals and media outlets including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times.
Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the Finance Unit (2005-2006), and Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of the MBA Program (1999 to 2005). He teaches corporate finance in both the School’s MBA and Executive Education programs. Professor Kester is a four-time recipient of The Robert F. Greenhill Award for outstanding service to Harvard Business School. Professor Kester’s research and course development focuses on corporate finance and corporate governance. He is the author or co-author of numerous case studies and articles on these topics. More than a million copies of his cases have been sold worldwide. His book, Japanese Takeovers: The Global Contest for Corporate Control, which is a comprehensive field study exploring the Japanese M&A wave of the 1980s and 1990s, was the winner of the O’Melveny & Myers Centennial Grant award. Professor Kester was the co-editor of the leading volume of finance cases used worldwide, Case Problems in Finance (Irwin/McGraw-Hill), now in its twelfth edition, and Case Problems in International Finance (Irwin/McGraw-Hill). His research has been presented to academic and corporate executive audiences throughout North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Among these are the Council on Foreign Relations, the Financial Executives Institute, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, The Strategic Planning Society, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and the World Economic Forum. Under Professor Kester's leadership of HBS's academic programs, a new course on leadership, corporate accountability, and business ethics, and another on entrepreneurial management, were introduced into the MBA Program’s required curriculum; the required finance curriculum was redesigned; and the elective curriculum in the Program’s second year was rebalanced and expanded to improve course development opportunities for faculty and course selection options for students. The MD/MBA, MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID joint degree programs between HBS and Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School, respectively, were also created and launched under his supervision. He currently serves as Co-Chair for both of these joint degree programs. In addition to his work at HBS, Professor Kester is currently a member of the Committee to Visit Harvard Medical School and School of Dental Medicine, which reports to the University's Board of Overseers. He has chaired the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and served on the Harvard University Health Plans Subcommittee, the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, and the Harvard University Employees Credit Union Board of Directors. Professor Kester’s consulting activities have involved him with a wide variety of organizations on finance-related topics such as corporate valuation, capital budgeting, real option valuation, and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked with many corporations including J.P. Morgan, IBM, G.E. Capital, Merck & Co., the National Football League, the Standard Chartered Bank, the World Bank, and Xerox Corporation, among others. He is Chairman of the BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors Mutual Funds Complex, which oversees private credit and private equity mutual funds. He is also Vice Chairman of the BlackRock Fixed Income Mutual Funds Complex. From 2005 to 2008, he was also an independent trustee of Access Capital Strategies Community Investment Fund, Inc., a closed-end mutual fund that enables financial institutions to invest in loans made in low-income areas in such a way as to qualify for Community Reinvestment Act credits. Professor Kester is past Chair and currently Vice Chair and Governor of the Board of Governors of the Handel and Haydn Society, a Boston-based musical society featuring an internationally recognized chorus and period instrument orchestra playing historically informed baroque and classical music. He also served as a trustee (1988-2002), and as President of the Board of Trustees (1999-2002), of the Nashoba Brooks School, an independent school for boys and girls (pre-school through grade 3) and girls (grades 4 through 8). An economics graduate of Amherst College, Professor Kester also holds advanced degrees from Harvard Business School (MBA), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc.). He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where his doctoral thesis, Growth Options and Investment: A Dynamic Perspective on the Firm’s Allocation of Resources, was the winner of the Advanced Management Program Thesis Fellowship prize. Professor Kester is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Finance Association, and the Financial Management Association.
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, international business and economic development to undergraduate and graduate students and senior executives. A summary of his conceptual work on emerging markets appeared in his 2010 co-authored book, Winning in Emerging Markets. Comparative work on entrepreneurship in China and India appeared in two books based on his personal experiences: Billions in 2008 and a sequel in 2018, Trust. Recently, he co-edited two collections of essays, one a set of transcripts of original video interviews of iconic entrepreneurial leaders across emerging markets, Leadership to Last, the other most recently, Making Meritocracy, an inter-disciplinary exploration of the roots of meritocracy in China and India, with lessons for entrepreneurship and for much studied societal attributes like dynamism and inequality. He was named the first director of Harvard’s university-wide Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute in the fall of 2010. The institute rapidly grew to engage over 150 faculty from across Harvard in projects embracing the pure sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, and spanning the region from Afghanistan to Myanmar. A centerpiece of the Institute’s strategy is a deep local presence, anchored through offices in New Delhi and Lahore. During the past decade, he also oversaw HBS activities across South Asia, anchored in Mumbai. He currently teaches a popular university-wide elective course, Contemporary Developing Countries, where students work in multi-disciplinary teams to devise practical solutions to complex social problems. The course is part of Harvard’s undergraduate general education core curriculum, and is rare in that it also attracts graduate students from across the university, engaging ‘sophomores to surgeons.’ A free online version on the edX platform, Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, has been taken by about three quarters of a million students in over 200 countries. In 2007, he was nominated Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum, in 2009, elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, in 2016, recognized by the Academy of Management as Eminent Scholar for Lifetime Achievement in the field of International Management. Between 2015 and 2019, he was appointed to several national commissions by the Government of India, including to chair the effort to frame policies for entrepreneurship in India. Outside HBS, he serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and India. In the past decade, this included AES, a Washington DC headquartered global power company, and India-based Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (BFIL), one of the world’s largest firms dedicated to financial inclusion for the poor. Recently, he joined the board of inMobi, India’s first ‘unicorn,’ a global technology provider of enterprise platforms for marketers. He is a co-founder of several entrepreneurial ventures in the developing world, spanning India, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. In 2015, he co-founded Axilor, a vibrant incubator in Bangalore. From 2015 to 2022, he was a Trustee of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He lives in Newton, MA, with his wife, daughter and son.
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic venture fund for China, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first University-wide center located outside the United States. A historian of modern China, Kirby's work examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; business relations across Greater China (PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong); and China's relations with the United States and Europe. He has authored or co-authored more than fifty HBS cases on business in China, ranging from start-ups to SOEs; agribusiness and middle-class consumption; banking and microfinance; healthcare and education; corporate governance and corporate social responsibility; and the global strategies of Chinese firms. His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. His most recent books include Can China Lead? (Harvard Business Review Press) and China and Europe on the New Silk Road (Oxford University Press). Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was professor of history, director of Asian studies, and dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, he has served as chair of the history department, director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. As dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences., he led Harvard's largest school, with 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty members, 2,500 staff, and an annual budget of $1 billion. Professor Kirby's research and consulting have focused on strategies for business and education in China. In addition to the American Council of Learned Societies, he serves on the Board of Directors of Cabot Corporation; The China Fund, Inc.; The Taiwan Fund, Inc.; Harvard University Press; and Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University. He served as senior advisor on China to Duke University in the founding of Duke Kunshan University. Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Phil. honoris causa), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Dr. Phil. honoris causa), and Hong Kong Baptist University (Dr. Humanities honoris causa). He has been named Honorary Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Chongqing University, East China Normal University, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and National Chengchi University. He has also held appointments as visiting professor at University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Josh Krieger is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Josh’s research focuses on R&D strategy and the economics of innovation. His work examines project selection, R&D competition, and how firms adjust their R&D portfolios in response to new information and resources. He has taught the first-year course, the Entrepreneurial Manager, and currently teaches a second-year elective course: Tough Tech Ventures, which examines the development, commercialization and financing of cutting-edge science and technology. Josh has a BA in economics and government from Cornell University. He received his PhD at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a recipient of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, and a National Bureau of Economics Research Predoctoral Fellow in the International Network on the Value of Medical Research. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked in economic and litigation consulting at Cornerstone Research in Boston
Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). His innovation-related research is centered around his role as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and as the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory. Karim is known for his original scholarship on open source communities and innovation contests and has pioneered the use of field experiments to help solve innovation-related challenges while simultaneously generating rigorous research in partnership with organizations like NASA, Harvard Medical School, The Broad Institute, TopCoder, The Linux Foundation and various private organizations. His digital transformation research investigates the role of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping business and operating models. This research is complemented through his leadership as co-founder and chair of the The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard and as co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program, a university-wide online program transforming mid-career executives into data-savvy leaders. Karim has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in leading management, economics and natural science journals, executive-oriented articles in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business School case studies. He is the co-editor of two books from MIT Press on open and distributed innovation models including Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities and Open Innovation (2016) and Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (2005). He is the co-author of Competing in the Age of AI (2020) a book published by the Harvard Business Review Press. His research has been featured in BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc., MarketWatch, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Science, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WBUR, WGBH, and Wired. Karim has taught extensively in Harvard Business School’s MBA, executive, doctoral and online programs. He has co-developed new courses on Digital Innovation & Transformation, Digital Strategy and Innovation, and Laboratory to Market. He co-chairs the HBS executive program on Competing with Big Data and Business Analytics, various custom executive education offerings and developed the HarvardX online course on Technology Entrepreneurship. Karim was awarded his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds an SM degree in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University in Canada. He was a recipient of the Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship and a doctoral fellowship from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Prior to coming to HBS he served as a Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Karim has also worked in sales, marketing and new product development roles at GE Healthcare and was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business, Government and the International Economy; Comparative Government Business Relations; Human Resources Management; Leadership, Values and Decisio Making; and Business History in HBS executive programs, and has also taught Human Resource Management; Leadership, Values, and Decision Making; and Business History. In Executive Program he taught BGIE, and Ideology and Business. After service in the U.S. Navy (1945-'46), he graduated from Harvard College cum laude in 1950, and became a political reporter and columnist on the Boston Herald. In 1954 he joined the United States Department of Labor as Director of Information, and four years later was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs by President Eisenhower; he was reappointed by President Kennedy in 1961. He was the United States Delegate to the International Labor Organization and was elected chairman of the organization's Governing Body in 1960. At the end of his government service in 1961 Lodge was named one of the ten outstanding young men in the United States by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. He also received the Arthur S. Fleming Award as one of the ten most outstanding young men in the federal government and the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of Labor. He wrote of his government experiences in Spearheads of Democracy: The Role of Labor in Developing Countries (Harper and Row, 1962). In 1961 he was appointed lecturer at Harvard Business School. He left the following year to become the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. He returned to the School in 1963. During the 1960s Lodge played a major role in the establishment of the Central American Institute of Business Administration (Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas-INCAE). His research during those years took him to Veraguas Province, Panama, where he studied the introduction of political and economic change. This work resulted in several articles in Foreign Affairs and a book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America. These in turn led in 1970 to the establishment by Congress of a new government agency, The Inter-American Foundation, of which Lodge was vice chairman for seven years. He was named associate professor of business administration at Harvard in 1968 and received tenure in 1972. He played a leading role in the design and development of several courses relating to the global political and economic environment of business, comparative business-government relations, and comparative ideology. He has published more than 40 articles-12 in the Harvard Business Review, two of which received the McKinsey award for the best article of the year-and a number of books besides the two mentioned above: The New American Ideology (1975) and The American Disease (1984), published by Alfred Knopf; U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy (1984) ed. with Bruce R. Scott and Ideology and National Competitiveness : An Analysis of Nine Countries (1987) ed. with Ezra F. Vogel, published by Harvard Business School Press; Comparative Business-Government Relations (1990) published by Prentice Hall; Perestroika for America: Restructuring Business-Government Relations for World Competitiveness (1990), published by Harvard Business School Press; Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence (1995) published by Pfeiffer & Co.; and published in 2006, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, with Craig Wilson, by Princeton University Press. In 1991 Lodge was named Lee Kuan Yew Fellow by the Government of Singapore, and in 1994 received an honorary doctorate from INCAE. In 1995 The New American Ideology received the annual book award of the Academy of Management. From 1997 to 2007 he was a director of Nordic American Tanker Shipping. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1960. He has taught executives in a number of companies including IBM, AT&T, and the World Bank. Lodge was married to the former Nancy Kunhardt from 1949 until she died in 1997. They had six children. In 1997, he married Susan Alexander Powers whose husband had died a few years earlier. She has three children.
Shirley Lu is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Lu conducts research in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure, with a focus on topics related to climate change and gender diversity. Her research aims to evaluate firm’s CSR performance, understand CSR measurements and ratings, and investigate institutional frameworks that facilitate CSR disclosures. Some of her works examine the bonding mechanisms of green bonds, and the credibility of CSR disclosures and ESG scores. Professor Lu earned a PhD in accounting and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She earned a BS in accounting and finance, and a MS in accounting, both from New York University.
Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, McGee has coauthored numerous cases on the media and cultural industries. He co-designed and teaches the courses Business of the Arts and Scaling Minority Businesses and is a member of the school’s Social Enterprise Initiative. He serves as faculty co-advisor for both the Entertainment and Media Club and the African American Student Union and is a two-time recipient of the Robert F. Greenhill Award for service to the HBS community. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and a former director of the Pew Research Center. McGee is chair of the Governance, Public Policy, and Corporate Responsibility Committee of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a broadcast and digital media company that is the largest station affiliate group of the NBC television network. From 2004 to 2024, he served as a director of Cencora (NYSE: COR), one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical services company and number ten on the Fortune 500 list of the biggest corporations in America. In 2018 the National Association of Corporate Directors named McGee to the Directorship 100, the organization’s annual recognition of the country’s most influential boardroom members. McGee joined HBO immediately after graduating from HBS in 1979. During the course of his 34-year career with the company, he held posts in a wide range of areas including family programming, film acquisition and international coproduction. Named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995, McGee received numerous industry awards for his pioneering use of Internet-based marketing and early adoption of the high-definition format for the company’s DVD releases. Named one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in the entertainment business by Black Enterprise magazine, McGee oversaw the digital and DVD release of numerous blockbusters including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Game of Thrones. McGee also served as a director of the Digital Entertainment Group, the trade association of entertainment and electronics manufacturers focused on fostering new technologies. In 2008 he was inducted into the Video Hall of Fame, the home entertainment industry’s most prestigious honor. McGee has a strong interest in the governance of nonprofit organizations and has been especially involved in the arts. He has served as president of both the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He has also been a board member of the Sundance Institute, The Public Theater, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the New 42nd Street, the organization overseeing the revitalization and management of seven historic theaters in Times Square. Currently he is a member of the executive committee of the Black Filmmaker Foundation and a director of the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. After graduating from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1974, McGee worked as a reporter for Newsweek magazine in its New York and Washington bureaus. He covered stories in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, education, and entertainment.
Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and co-curricular programs in the MBA program. For the last decade she taught "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a popular advanced finance elective that analyzes how economic stress and restructuring creates challenges and opportunities for businesses and their stakeholders. She has also taught Venture Capital and Private Equity, and the FIELD Global Immersion. Kristin received the HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award multiple times, the Charles M. Williams Award for teaching excellence, the Robert F. Greenhill Award, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Kristin retired in 2013 as a Managing Director and partner at Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative investment firms, after nearly 20 years as a private equity and credit investor. During that time she held a number of senior leadership roles and became the first female partner in the firm's history. Kristin helped start Bain Capital Credit (founded as Sankaty Advisors), and prior to her retirement was responsible for the oversight of their high yield investments and a senior member of Bain Capital Credit's management team and investment committee. Bain Capital Credit is one of the leading corporate and distressed debt managers, managing over $40 billion in offices around the world. Kristin began her career at the Walt Disney Company, where she worked in corporate strategic planning and the consumer products division. She graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar and holds an AB with honors from Harvard College.
Seth Neel is an Assistant Professor housed in the Department of Technology and Operations Management (TOM) at HBS, and a Faculty Afficilate in Computer Science at SEAS. He is Principal Investigator of the Trustworthy AI Lab in Harvard's new D^3 Institute.Professor Neel's primary academic interest is in responsible A.I., with a focus on red-teaming models to uncover practical privacy risks, developing efficient algorithms to remove the influence of user data on trained models, and training models that are consistent with notions like fairness or interpretability. His best known work develops fair algorithms that can accomodate very flexible definitions of protected subgroups while maintaining accuracy, and have been adopted and incorporated into the open source efforts of companies like IBM AI Research. He has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, Axios, and CNBC. Outside of research, he is also a co-founder of the energy data company Welligence for which he was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019.For more information about Professor Neel's work, see his personal website.
Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Norton was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions. He is also the co-author - with Elizabeth Dunn - of the book, Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. His research has been the answer to Final Jeopardy and has been parodied by the Onion. In 2012, he was selected for Wired Magazine’s Smart List as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World.” His TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed more than 4.5 million times.
Jason Pananos is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Department. Jason currently teaches and was the co-creator of a second-year field course titled “Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms”. Jason is also an active collaborator and guest lecturer in the courses “Financial Management of Smaller Firms” and “Entrepreneurship through Acquisition”. These courses focus on how to acquire, finance, and operate small and medium privately held companies. Jason is a co-founder of The Nashton Company. Nashton is a holding company focused on making long-term investments in private companies. Prior to Nashton, Jason acquired and ran a small firm that provided vector-borne disease prevention programs and lake management services. Under Jason's leadership, the company made 14 acquisitions and yielded a 43% compounded annual growth rate over seven years before selling to a public company. Jason graduated from Harvard Business School in 2008 and received a Bachelor in Business Administration from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002.
John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a Guggenheim fellowship, Pratt has been at Harvard for his entire professional career. Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1965 to 1970, he is a fellow of five professional societies and has chaired National Academy of Sciences committees on environmental monitoring, census methodology, and the future of statistics. His recent research has been on risk aversion, risk sharing incentives, and the nature and discovery of stochastic laws, statistical relationships that describe the effects of decisions. He is co-author of a book entitled: Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory, published by MIT Press, 1995.
Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves on the faculty of several executive education programs, including Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation and Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. Professor Raffaelli's research focuses on organizational reinvention and leading change. His work introduces the concept of "technology reemergence," a process whereby organizations and industries faced with technological change reinvent themselves. He also studies how leaders infuse values and meaning into institutions during periods of instability. Professor Raffaelli’s research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Annals, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, as well as in a number of edited handbooks on innovation and management. He serves on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly and is a faculty associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. His work has been covered by such media as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Washington Post, NPR, Fortune, CNBC, Fast Company, and Rolling Stone. Professor Raffaelli's research has received several awards, including the inaugural "Best Research Methods Paper" from the Strategic Management Society, and "Best Paper" and "Giarratani Rising Star" distinctions from the Industry Studies Association. His doctoral thesis won multiple "Best Dissertation" awards from the academic community, including the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), and the INFORMS Technology Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Division. In recognition of his research at the intersection of leadership, strategy, and technology studies, he was awared the Richard Hodgson Fellowship at Harvard Business School.Professor Raffaelli earned his undergraduate degree in business administration from Georgetown University and studied corporate strategy at Oxford University. He holds master’s degrees in business and government relations (MPP) and in organizational ethics (MTS) from Harvard University. He received a PhD in management and an MS in organization studies from Boston College. Before his academic career, Professor Raffaelli was an executive in Accenture’s strategy management consulting practice, advising Fortune 500 firms, global nonprofits, and various U.S. government agencies. He also served briefly as a White House liaison to NASA.
Professor Ramarajan is the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.She teaches the second-year MBA course, Power and Influence, as well as the PhD seminar on Micro-topics in Organizational Behavior. She also teaches in various executive education programs. She previously taught the second-year MBA course, Authentic Leader Development and the first-year MBA course in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). Profesor Ramarjan's research examines how people can work fruitfully across social divides, with a particular emphasis on identities and group boundaries. Her research addresses two broad questions: 1) How does the work environment shape people’s experiences as members of particular groups and of their multiple identities? 2) What are the consequences of multiple identities and group differences in organizations? She investigates professional and work identities alongside other identities that are important to people, such as ethnicity, community and family. She examines consequences such as employee engagement and commitment to work, career success and satisfaction, quality of interpersonal and intergroup relations, and performance. In recent work, using experiments, surveys and interviews, she has examined how individuals’ manage their organizational, cultural and personal identities, and how these identities interact to influence engagement and performance. Professor Ramarajan's research has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Annals, and the Academy of Management Review, among others. Professor Ramarajan earned her B.A. (Honors) in International Relations from Wellesley College, her M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her PhD in Management from The Wharton School of Business. She was awarded the State Farm Foundation Dissertation Proposal Award in 2008. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010. Prior to her academic career, Professor Ramarajan worked in international development, managing conflict resolution programs in West Africa with a focus on gender and workforce development. She was also a professional dancer for several years.
Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship. Professor Reinert studies the global histories of business, capitalism, and political economy from the Middle Ages to today’s emerging markets, focusing particularly on questions of international competition and the role played by governments in both economic development and decline. In addition to various research projects including indigenous entrepreneurship in the Arctic and the relationship between capitalism and slavery, he is currently writing books on Renaissance Economics, on Viking Nazis, and on the globalization of Vermouth. Professor Reinert earned his Ph.D. in history at the University for Cambridge, together with an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history. As an undergraduate, he studied history at Cornell University. Before joining Harvard, he was a Carl Schurz Fellow at the Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the University of Erfurt, Germany, a fellow of the Einaudi Foundation in Turin, Italy, and a research fellow and an affiliated lecturer in history at Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and Europe. Professor Rettl’s research centers on how broad societal changes shape mass attitudes and behavior. For example, in some of her work, she examines how voters’ responses to globalization varies depending on whether they rely on the state or religious organizations for support during difficult economic times. In other work, she investigates how natural disasters shape voting behavior and the role played by economic interest in this context. Professor Rettl earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Bocconi University in 2023. She also holds a M.A. in European Affairs from Science Po Paris and a B.Sc. in Geography from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).
George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and Operations Management) and LCA (Leadership and Corporate Accountability), each for several years in the RC. He was a co-founder to build an Impact Investment Fund Class at HBS now taught in the EC. Lastly, he also teaches a range of courses in various Exec Ed program, mostly around Professional Services Firms. He returned to HBS after 30 years having graduated in 1987 following a 16 year career at McKinsey and Company, both in North America and Asia serving clients in the Telecom, Media and Technology industrries. He followed that with 14 year career in various C-suite roles in technology, including multiple CEO stints. He has served on fourteen public or private company boards and currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Infinera (INFN) in Sunnyvale, CA., Chairman of the Board of Juvare in Atlanta, GA. as well as the lead indepedent director at Bridgeway Benefits Technology in Baltimore, MD and an independent director at Markforged (MKFG) in Waltham, MA. He is also a LP (Limited Partner) in several growth equity and venture funds. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1980 with a BS (with Distinction) in Mechanical Engineering he spent the next five years working as a Petroleum Engineer for Exxon Co USA in their production department in Houston, prior to coming back to HBS. He's been married for 41 years, has 4 adult children and two grandchildren.
Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on two topics: business strategy and U.S. competitiveness. Business strategy. Rivkin’s business strategy work examines 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's scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Research Policy. Much of this work uses simulations of complex adaptive systems to examine the theoretical implications of cross-cutting interactions. His empirical work on the topic employs a mix of large-scale statistical studies, field research, and case studies. Rivkin has taught business strategy in the Advanced Management Program, in the first year of the MBA program, and in a second-year MBA elective that he developed, Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise. The elective course aims to improve students’ ability to integrate across the parts of the companies they will manage. A comprehensive description of Advanced Competitive Strategy is available to fellow educators via Harvard Business Publishing. In support of his strategy teaching and research, Rivkin has completed case studies on Airborne Express, BMG Entertainment, Dell, Delta Air Lines, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Husky Injection Molding Systems, LEGO, Lycos, Microsoft, Ryanair, Whirlpool Corporation, and Yahoo, among others. U.S. competitiveness. Rivkin also co-chairs HBS's project on the competitiveness of the United States. In that role, he has worked with a faculty team to explore steps that leaders--especially business leaders--can take to improve the ability of firms in the U.S. to win in the global marketplace and support American living standards. His work in this domain focuses on (a) how managers choose to locate business activities in the United States or elsewhere and (b) how business leaders can best work with policymakers, nonprofit leaders, educators, and others to bring shared prosperity to America’s cities. In support of his U.S. competitiveness work, Rivkin has developed case studies on Barry-Wehmiller, the Columbus Partnership, the city of Detroit, and Southwire Corporation. Rivkin received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard. Earlier, he studied chemical engineering and public policy at Princeton and obtained a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics on a Marshall Scholarship. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Rivkin led case teams and managed client relationships at Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mark Roberge is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing in the second-year MBA program in the Fall term and The Entrepreneurial Manager and Startup Bootcamp in the first-year MBA program in the Spring and Winter terms. Prior to HBS, Mark served as SVP of Global Sales and Services at HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) where he scaled annualized revenue from $0 to $100 million and expanded his team from 1 to 450 employees. Mark was ranked #19 in Forbes' Top 30 Social Sellers in the World. He was also awarded the 2010 Salesperson of the Year at the MIT Sales Conference. Mark is active with a number of startups as a board of director’s member, advisory board member, and investor. Mark received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Boston Globe, TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, and other major publications for his entrepreneurial ventures. Mark is the author of the bestselling book The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million.
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He has recently been involved in the reorganization of the market for Gastroenterology fellows, which started using a clearinghouse in 2006 for positions beginning in 2007. He helped design the high school matching system used in New York City to match approximately ninety thousand students to high schools each year, starting with students entering high school in the Fall of 2004. He helped redesign the matching system used in Boston Public Schools, adopted for students starting school in September 2006. He is one of the founders and designers of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange, for incompatible patient-donor pairs. He is the chair of the American Economic Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, which has designed a number of recent changes in the market for new Ph.D. economists. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim and Sloan fellow. He received his Ph.D at Stanford University, and came to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics. For further information, please go to Al Roth's Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Market Design Page.
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially on corporate-control transactions and valuation. His course development work parallels his research interests. He has taught a variety of corporate finance courses throughout his career. Over the last few years, he and Royce Yudkoff have been developing and teaching a new second year case course titled “The Financial Management of Smaller Firms” and a field course called “Entrepreneurship through Acquisition”. Recently, Ruback and Yudkoff published their book, HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Published by Harvard Business Review Press, the book is a practical roadmap through the steps required to find, evaluate, negotiate and finance the acquisition of a smaller firm. Ruback earned his Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Rochester in 1980 and taught at MIT's Sloan School before joining the HBS faculty as a visiting professor in 1987. He was appointed associate professor in 1988 and full professor in 1989. Ruback has served as an editor for the Journal of Financial Economics and is the author of numerous articles on corporate finance and valuation. Ruback has served as a consultant to corporations on corporate finance issues and has acted as an independent advisor to outside directors. He also served as an expert witness on valuation and security issues.
Amy W. Schulman is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures. Ms. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014. In 2014, Ms. Schulman also joined Polaris Partner’s Boston office, simultaneously assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arsia Therapeutics, a Polaris-backed company which was acquired by Eagle Pharmaceuticals in 2016. In 2015, Ms. Schulman cofounded Lyndra, where she is CEO. She became CEO and Executive Chair of Olivo Laboratories in 2017, and also serves as Executive Chair of SQZ Biotech. Previously, Ms. Schulman led Pfizer Inc.’s $4 billion Consumer Healthcare business, which operates in 90 countries and includes well-known brands such as Advil, Centrum, and Chapstick. She also served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Pfizer Inc. Ms. Schulman originally joined Pfizer in 2008 as General Counsel and saw the company through its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth, the largest pharmaceutical acquisition in history. In 2009, she spearheaded an innovative approach to engaging outside counsel and became recognized as a leading voice for transforming the billable-hour model and for redefining the value of legal services. Before joining Pfizer, Ms. Schulman was a partner at DLA Piper, where she was a member of the Board and Executive Policy Committees, and built and led the international law firm’s mass tort and class-action practice handling some of the most complex legal, scientific and regulatory challenges facing the world’s largest and most reputable companies, including Kraft, Altria, Cisco, GE Healthcare, and Pfizer. She began her career in litigation with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Ms. Schulman's accomplishments have earned her accolades from leading publications and organizations. The American Bar Association honored her with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement award in 2012. In 2013 Fortune magazine named her one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.” That same year, The American Lawyer named her one of the “Top 50 Innovators,” and The National Law Journal named her one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” She was also included in Fierce Biotech’s 2014 "Top 15 Women in Biotech" and Scientific American’s 2015 "Worldview 100 List." A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University, Ms. Schulman earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. She serves on the Board of Directors of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Blue Buffalo, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and the Whitehead Institute.
Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum. Professor Seegars explores how intergroup inequality is both reproduced and contested within organizations. He specifically focuses on racial, gender, and class inequality and their intersections. Across various contexts, he has two streams of work that examine (1) how individuals contest (and reproduce) intergroup inequality within work organizations and (2) how individuals psychologically respond to organizational efforts that challenge intergroup inequality. He received the Best Conference Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management. Professor Seegars earned an A.B. in Social Studies and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a high school math and special education teacher, actor and singer, field organizer for a presidential campaign, and minister.
Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2023/24, he is teaching a second-year MBA course titled “Changing the World” which analyzes the life choices of influential leaders. He also co-chairs (with Professor Robert Kaplan) "Driving Corporate Performance," an executive education program for general managers and financial executives. For anyone interested in learning more about his work on strategy execution, Simons has developed a multimedia course on Strategy Execution for Harvard Business School Online. This course—open to the general public—consists of 40 hours of material delivered over an eight-week period. Participants can complete the coursework on their own time. Simons has also published a 15-module series for classroom teaching on Strategy Execution available through Harvard Business School Publishing. In addition, an online app, Job Design Optimization Tool, is available free-of-charge from Harvard Business School Publishing. This tool can be used to design, or test the design of, any job in any organization. In 2021, The Case Centre (U.K.) named Simons the number two best-selling business case author in the world. Simons’ books include Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution (2010) and Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment (2005). In addition, he has written Levers of Control (1995) that describes how effective top managers balance innovation and control. This book won the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature award. In addition to his books, Simons' ongoing research into the relationship between business strategy, organization design, and management control systems has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Capitalism and Society, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting Literature. His most recent academic paper co-authored with Professor Antonio Dávila, “How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change,” was published in the European Accounting Review in 2021. A Canadian CPA, Simons earned his Ph.D. from McGill University. Simons has served as a consultant to many companies on topics related to strategy execution, organization design, performance measurement, and strategic control. He has testified as an expert witness in U.S. Federal Court and before State Public Utility Commissions.
Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between technological change and broader social structures. Spar tackles some of these issues in her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Spar served as the President of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 2017 to 2018. During her tenure at Barnard, Spar led initiatives to highlight women’s leadership and advancement, including the creation of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies and the development of Barnard’s Global Symposium series. Before joining Barnard, Spar spent 17 years on the HBS faculty as the Spangler Family Professor as well as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. A prolific writer, Spar’s books include Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet (2001), The Baby Business (2006), and Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (2013). Spar is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as a director of Value Retail LLC and Thermo Fisher Scientific, as well as a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bentley University. She has also served on the boards of Goldman Sachs and the Wallace and Markle Foundations. Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and her B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She and her husband, Miltos Catomeris, are the parents of three grown children.
Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA elective, Managing the Future of Work, explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding artificial intelligence, robotics, digital labor markets, and training for the modern workforce. In addition to his position at HBS, Professor Stanton is a Faculty Research Fellow with The National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow with CESifo in Germany, and a Fellow with the Center for Economic Policy Research in the UK. According to ChatGPT, Professor Stanton's research contributions are notable for their empirical rigor and relevance to contemporary economic theory and practice. His early work provided data-driven techniques for evaluating managerial effectiveness. His recent work examines practices for improving knowledge sharing in organizations and measuring the returns to training programs in light of spillover benefits to coworkers and managers. Additional work has focused on how technology changes and shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic shape labor markets, business ecosystems, and contracts between firms and workers. Professor Stanton's research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, Management Science, the Journal of Labor Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Finance among other outlets and it has been covered by major media outlets including The Economist, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg. Before joining HBS, Professor Stanton was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Utah and an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics. He earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Emory University.
Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and technology development, customer experience design, operational improvement, organizational change, and innovation strategy. Professor Thomke is a frequent conference speaker and advisor to global business leaders. He has taught and chaired executive education programs on innovation, R&D management, product & service development, and operations, both at Harvard Business School and in company programs around the world. He chairs the General Management Program (GMP) at HBS and has been a core faculty member of many executive education programs, including the Advanced Management Program (AMP), and the global Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) in Dubai, Mumbai, and Shanghai. He also chairs the Managing Innovation executive education program, which helps business leaders revamp their innovation systems for greater competitive advantage. He was faculty chair of HBS executive education and research in South Asia and has served on advisory and supervisory boards of start-up and established companies. Previously, Thomke was faculty chair of the MBA Required Curriculum and faculty co-chair of the doctoral program in Science, Technology and Management. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching at HBS, a finalist for the Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award, and author of the bestselling article in MIT Sloan Management Review. His research and writings have focused primarily on the process, economics, and management of business experimentation. He is a widely published author with more than one hundred articles, cases and notes published in books and leading journals, such as: California Management Review, European Business Review, Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Research Policy, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Scientific American. He is also author of the books Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Managing Product and Service Development (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006), and Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). Professor Thomke holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, Master’s degrees in Operations Research and Management (MBA equivalent), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was awarded a Lemelson-MIT doctoral fellowship for invention and innovation research. He has also received honorary degrees in Economics (Doctorate from the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management), Sciences (Doctorate from the Technical University Graz) and Arts (Master’s from Harvard University). Contact information: Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Morgan Hall 489, Boston, MA 02163 (U.S.A.); E-mail: sthomke@hbs.edu. For a very detailed biography, see Curriculum Vitae (Additional Information section).
Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply chains. He co-founded and hosts the HBS Climate Rising podcast, which covers a range of business and climate change topics, and co-created the HBS Working Conditions in Supply Chains microsite to summarize evidence-based academic research on that topic. He serves as the Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, is a co-Principle Investigator of the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab of the Digitial, Data, and Design (D3) Institute at Harvard, co-chairs Harvard's Presidential Committee on Sustainability, leads the Climate Change Deep Dive for the Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) program, serves on the Harvard Committee on Climate Education, and teaches the HBS Technology & Operations Management core MBA course. His work ranges from academic articles based on econometric analyses of large datasets to case studies of individual companies. His research on occupational health and safety has been profiled by the head of U.S. OSHA and featured in the national press including US News & World Report and Scientific American. His research has been published in many top scholarly journals including Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science, in practitioners journals including Sloan Management Review and California Management Review, and in mainstream outlets including The Atlantic Monthly and Newsweek/DailyBeast. Prof. Toffel is co-editing the Management Science Special Issue on Business and Climate Change, and recently co-edited the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM) Special Issue on Responsible Research in Operations Managements. He serves as an Associate Editor at MSOM, and is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. He is on the Working Board of the Responsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM) network and a co-founder and steering committee member of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), which organize leading annual academic conferences to foster high-quality research on practically relevant (RRBM) and corporate sustainability topics (ARCS). His co-authors include Yanhua Zhou Bird, Aaron (Ronnie) Chatterji, Magali Delmas, Anil Doshi, Glen Dowell, Kira Fabrizio, Caroline Flammer, Andrea Hugill, Maria Ibanez, Chonnikarn (Fern) Jira, Matthew Johnson, Shirley Lu, Andrew King, David Levine, Julian Marshall, Chris Marquis, Melissa Ouellet, Ashley Palmarozzo, Lamar Pierce, Erin Reid, George Serafeim, Tim Simcoe, Sara Singer, Jodi Short, Kala Viswanathan, and David Vogel. He recommends the HBS Business & Environment Initiative, Environmental Leader, Grist, Ethical Corporation, and SustainableBusiness.com to keep up on corporate environmental news, and Popular Info to track corporate lobbying Toffel has organized several conferences, including on climate change risks and opportunities at HBS (2020), effective government inspection and compliance in Washington DC (2015), corporate sustainability at HBS (2010), the role of information disclosure in corporate transparency and accountability at the National Press Club in Washington DC (2009), business and human rights in operations and supply chains at HBS (2008), and industry self-regulation at HBS (2007). Professor Toffel received a Ph.D. from the Haas School of Business' Business and Public Policy department at the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Master’s in Environmental Management (Industrial Environmental Management) from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and a BA in Government from Lehigh University. He has worked as the Director of Environment, Health and Safety at the Jebsen & Jessen (South East Asia) Group of Companies, based in Singapore. He has also worked as an environmental management consultant for Arthur Andersen, Arthur D. Little, and Xerox Corporation. He started his career as an operations management analyst at J.P. Morgan. Professor Toffel is a Town Meeting Member for the Town of Brookline.
Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri at Columbia. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A. in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975). He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History, and the Newcomen Award in Business History. Professor Vietor's research on business and government policy has been published in numerous journals and books. His books include Energy Policy in America Since 1945 (1984), Strategic Management in the Regulated Environment (1989), Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America (1994), Business Management and the Natural Environment (1996), Globalization and Growth: Case Studies in National Economic Strategies (2004), Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (ed. with Bruce Hay and Robert Stavins; 2007), How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy (2007), and The Class Moves the World: How Business Elites Decipher the World Economy (available in Japanese only, 2010). For his courses in business-government relations and environmental management, Professor Vietor has published more than one hundred and eighty case studies on energy policy, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power and hazardous wastes; on strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services; and on the national development strategies of a dozen countries. He has been a consultant to the Energy Research and Development Administration, serves on the Advisory Boards of IPADE (in Mexico), IESE (in Spain), and INALDE (in Colombia), and IEEM (Uruguay), and is a panel member of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia International Advisory Panel, the Advisory Council of the Australia China Business Council, and the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands. He has consulted to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, and currently advised several firms. Professor Vietor and his wife Cindy have three adult children -- Nicholas, Christopher, and Meredith – and six grandchildren.
Bill Vrattos is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of York Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager founded in 1991. During his 20+ years at York, he has started and run equity and credit businesses in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining York, Bill was a portfolio manager and analyst at Georgica Advisors, an alternative asset manager based in New York. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in New York where he worked in the corporate finance, capital markets, and real estate divisions. Bill has served on numerous boards of both public and private companies in a variety of industries as well as on many ad hoc creditor committees of companies undergoing restructurings. Current board assignments include NextDecade Corporation (Ticker: NEXT), an LNG export and carbon capture solutions company where Bill serves as lead independent director, Generate Advisors LLC, a multi-billion dollar CLO manager, Saddle Butte Partners III, a pipeline company in the Powder River Basin, India 2020 Limited and India 2020 Fund II Limited, private equity funds focused on local Indian consumer brands, and Catalio Structured Opportunities Fund, a biotech-focused venture credit fund. Bill is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the City of New York, a trustee of the Groton School, a former board president and Honorary Trustee of the Buckley School, and a former member of the Investment Committee of the Dartmouth Endowment. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.
Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation Mastery course, has now been taken by leaders, managers, and students from more than 160 countries around the world. Over the years, Mike served as faculty chair of the MBA first-year program and headed the required Negotiation course. He has also taught The Moral Leader, as well as Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. In 2001 he was appointed MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice. In 2004 Mike received the Greenhill Award for his contributions to HBS’s mission. He also has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2015 he was named Editor Emeritus of the Negotiation Journal, having been its Editor for twenty years. Mike’s current research centers on negotiation dynamics, ethics, and the growing impact—for better or worse—of AI and other technology is having on negotiation. He cheerfully admits that over the years he’s become something of a contrarian. Specifically, he’s skeptical about popular one-size-fits-all approaches, whether they’re of the “win-win” or “take no prisoners” variety. Instead, his view is that great negotiators are also great improvisors. They are agile strategically and quick on their feet moment-to-moment. After all, the people we deal with have their own hands on the steering wheel, too. We can’t dictate where they want to go and how best to get there, any more than we’d let them dominate us. From start to finish, real-time learning and adapting are essential for negotiation success. Mike’s framework is laid out in his book The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. It is now available in a dozen different languages. His other negotiation books include What’s Fair? Ethics for Negotiators (with Carrie Menkel-Meadow), Business Fundamentals in Negotiation, and On Teaching Negotiation. His text, Environmental Dispute Resolution (with Lawrence Bacow) won the CPR-ADR’s annual award as best book on negotiation. Mike has written numerous articles in both scholarly journals, among them the Yale Journal of Regulation, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and The Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He has also written articles for the Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. He has created scores of teaching cases, exercises, and videos, for Harvard Business Publishing. Here is a full list of his publications. In recent years, Mike has moved beyond print to share his work in a variety of other forms, including a newsletter, The Jazz of Negotiation. He also developed a self-assessment/best practice app—Negotiation 360—available on both Apple and Android devices. And there is a web-based version for classroom use, distributed by Harvard Business Publishing. Mike also has short audio books on the Scrbd platform which cover topics from preparation to when the time is right for saying yes to a deal. LinkedIn Learning hosts his micro video course, Negotiating with Agility, accessible in several languages. As a LinkedIn Influencer, he has more than 230,000 followers. Working with HBS’s Baker Library, Mike created Negotiate 1-2-3, an online, multi-media resource that spans openings, critical moments, and closing in negotiation. It is available to the public at no cost. Collaborating with Professor Chis Dede and others at Harvard’s School of Education, Wheeler’s current priority is developing an online negotiation course for disadvantaged and marginalized people. Mike holds degrees from Amherst College, Boston University, and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Massachusetts bar, as well. He has been a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, served as a mediator in a variety of business and regulatory disputes. He also chaired the board of the Consensus Building Institute. He has advised corporate clients, not-for-profits, trade organizations, and government agencies on negotiation issues in the United States and abroad.
Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as President of BYU-Hawaii. (The three BYU campuses are owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) From 2015 to 2018 Dr. Wheelwright and his wife Margaret, served as President and Matron of the Boston Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this assignment they followed the service of Professor Emeritus, H. Kent Bowen, and his wife Kathy. Since his retirement from full-time volunteer service in 2018, Dr. Wheelwright has continued to serve on several Boards, including O.C. Tanner (Salt Lake City, UT), Guestbook (Las Vegas, NV), Caresyntax (Larkspur, CA), Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT), and the Wheelwright Family Foundation (Oakley, UT). From 2003-2006, Professor Wheelwright was a Baker Foundation Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Director of HBS Publication Activities. In that role, he oversaw the HBS Publishing Company (including HBR, HBS Press books, HBS cases, e-Learning products, and newsletters/conferences). He also oversaw the major on-campus construction projects. From 2000-2003, after retiring from the faculty, he and his wife fulfilled a full-time voluntary assignment presiding over the London, England Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From 1995-1999, Professor Wheelwright served as Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program. He then served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Hiring and Planning and had oversight responsibility for distance learning. Professor Wheelwright last taught the required first-year course in Technology and Operations Management and in several HBS Executive Education Programs. Professor Wheelwright first taught at Harvard from 1971-1979 and was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor from 1985-1986. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 1988. In his years away from Harvard, he was the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers Professor of Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In his position at Stanford, he directed the strategic management program and was instrumental in initiating the manufacturing strategy program. In his research, Professor Wheelwright has examined product and process development and their connection with competitive advantage and operations excellence. His most recent book, developed with HBS colleague Clayton Christensen and Stanford colleague, Robert Burgelman, is Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2004). Along with Harvard colleagues Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano and Dave Upton, Professor Wheelwright published Operations, Strategy and Technology - Pursing the Competitive Edge (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2004), a complementary volume to the highly regarded books, Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization (New York: Free Press, 1988) and Restoring Our Competitive Advantage-Competing Through Manufacturing (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980). He has also co-authored several works with Harvard Business School colleague Kim Clark, including Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise (Free Press, 1995). Professor Wheelwright is also the author or co-author of more than a dozen other books. Professor Wheelwright has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. In addition to his Harvard and Stanford positions, Professor Wheelwright served on the faculty of INSEAD (European Institute of Management) in Fontainebleau, France. He was Vice President of Sales in a family-owned printing company and has consulted in the areas of business/operations strategy and improving product development capabilities. He and his wife, Margaret, have five children, twenty grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Royce Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at the Harvard Business School and a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC in Boston, MA. Alongside Professor Richard Ruback, Royce currently co-teaches a second year case course titled “The Financial Management of Smaller Firms” and a field course called “Entrepreneurship through Acquisition”. These courses focus on how to acquire, finance and operate your own smaller firm. Recently, Ruback and Yudkoff published their book, HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Published by Harvard Business Review Press, the book is a practical roadmap through the steps required to find, evaluate, negotiate and finance the acquisition of a smaller firm. In 1989, Royce co-founded ABRY Partners, a private equity firm focused on the media, communications and business and information services markets. Since 1989 the firm has completed over $27 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity investments involving approximately 450 properties. Over this period Royce has also served on numerous private and public corporate boards. Royce graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1980 as a Baker Scholar and is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College.
Yuan Zou is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. She teaches Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zou conducts theoretically-motivated empirical studies aimed at furthering the understanding of capital markets, with an emphasis on issues of practical relevance to practitioners and regulators. She is especially interested in understanding the economic link between passive investing, price efficiency, and firm behavior. Her research in this area has been cited in one SEC commissioner speech and one SEC proposed rule. Professor Zou also examines the interaction between different types of disclosures. Her work has been published in Journal of Accounting and Economics and Management Science. Professor Zou earned a Ph.D. in Accounting from Columbia Business School, an M.S. in Finance from Syracuse University, and a B.S. in Finance from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU).
Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School's MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA and a DBA. In recent years, Professor Badaracco served as Chair of the MBA Program and as Housemaster of Currier House in Harvard College. He has also been chairman of the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and has served on the boards of two public companies. Badaracco has taught in executive programs in the United States, Japan, and many other countries and has spoken to a wide variety of organizations on issues of leadership, values, and ethics. He is also the faculty chair of the Nomura School of Advanced Management in Tokyo. Badaracco's most recent book is Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments. His previous book, published in 2020, was Step Back. It provides guidance on how men and women facing in demanding, high-pressure jobs can find time to reflect on professional and personal issues. Badaracco has written several books on leadership, decision-making, and responsibility. These include Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right, Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing, Questions of Character, and The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World. These books have been translated into ten languages. Badaracco has three children and lives with his wife, Patricia O'Brien, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.Professor Baik studies how information, financial reporting, and corporate taxes matter for PE/VC investors or startup firms. Some of his works have focused on the role of financial statement disclosure for PE/VC investments, and whether and how private equity fund managers inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values) during fundraising periods. Professor Baik earned a PhD in management (accounting) and a Master of Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he worked for the Singaporean private equity firm Houghton Street Partners.
Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and the Harvard Data Science Initiative. His research focuses on developing novel statistical methodologies to make business experimentation more rigorous, safer, and efficient, specifically homing in on the application of experimentation to the operationalization of artificial intelligence (AI), the process by which AI products are developed and integrated into real-world applications. His work has been published in top academic journals such as Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrika, The Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Management Science, and Science, and has been cited in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reuters, among other outlets. More broadly, as one of the few scholars who work at the intersection of data science and business, he was the first author to have spotlight featured articles in both the Harvard Business Review and the Harvard Data Science Review. Professor Bojinov is also the co-creator of the first-year required MBA course “Data Science for Managers” and has previously taught the “Competing in the Age of AI” and “Technology and Operations Management” courses. Before joining Harvard Business School, Professor Bojinov worked as a data scientist leading the causal inference effort within the Applied Research Group at LinkedIn. He holds a Ph.D. and an MA in Statistics from Harvard and an MSci in Mathematics from King’s College London.
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on Strategy and Game Theory. He also teaches in several HBS Executive Education programs including the Owner/President Management Program (OPM), and Strategy—Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage.Casadesus-Masanell received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his BA in Economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.Casadesus-Masanell’s fields of specialization are management strategy, managerial economics, and industrial organization. Casadesus-Masanell studies strategic interaction between organizations that operate different business models. He is also interested in the limits to contracting and the role of trust for management strategy. He has published in Management Science, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Long Range Planning, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the USC Interdisciplinary Law Journal, ABANTE Studies in Business Management, and the Harvard Business Review, among others.Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), Casadesus-Masanell edits the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business School, where Miranda Jelicie (jems@hbs.edu) serves as the editorial assistant.
Frank Cespedes is Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, M.S. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. At Harvard, he has developed and taught a variety of MBA and executive courses, led the Strategic Marketing Management program for senior executives, and was co-lead of the Sustainable Market Leadership program for CEOs and their leadership teams. He currently teaches the elective Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM) course in the MBA program as well as modules in the Owner President Management (OPM) executive program and he heads the executive program on "Aligning Strategy and Sales." Before joining the faculty, he was a Research Associate at Harvard and worked at Bain & Company, an international strategy consulting firm. From 1995 to 2007, he was Managing Partner at the Center for Executive Development (CED), a firm that won awards in the United States and Europe for its work with companies worldwide. He has consulted to companies in many industries, is affiliated with private-equity investors, and has been a Board member of Evenflo, HALO Industries, start-up firms, and the Education for Employment Foundation (EEF), which provides career training in skills linked directly to job placement with companies in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author or co-author of six books, including Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014), Concurrent Marketing: Integrating Product, Sales and Service(Harvard Business School Press) and Going to Market: Distribution Systems for Industrial Products (Harvard Business School Press); as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Strategy and Business, Business Horizons, California Management Review, International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Marketing Encyclopedia, Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, and Strategy & Business. He has also written more than 40 case studies about companies and numerous technical notes on various business topics.
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work. In particular, he studies the productivity effects of geographic mobility of workers, causes of geographic immobility and productivity effects of remote work practices such as ‘Work from anywhere’ and ‘All-remote’. He is an Associate Editor at Management Science and was included in the 2023 Forbes Future of Work-50 list. His research has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Harvard Business Review, and has been cited in Freakonomics, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, PBS, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR All Things Considered, Forbes, WIRED, Inc., Times of India, Globe and Mail, El Pais, and India Today Television among other outlets. He earned his Doctorate from Harvard, and has Degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Microsoft and IBM
Kim B. Clark joined the Harvard faculty in 1978 and served as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005. He received the B.A. (1974), M.A. (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard University. Professor Clark's research has focused on modularity in design and the integration of technology and competition in industry evolution, with a particular focus on the computer industry. He and Carliss Baldwin are co-authors of a book on the topic entitled Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (MIT Press, 2000). Earlier research focused on the areas of technology, productivity, product development, and operations strategy; publications on these topics include Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise (with S.C. Wheelwright, Free Press, 1995); The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal through Successful Product and Process Development (co-edited with H.K. Bowen, C. Holloway, and S.C. Wheelwright, Oxford University Press, 1994) and Revolutionizing Product Development (with S.C. Wheelwright, The Free Press, 1992). A comprehensive study on product development in the world auto industry (with T. Fujimoto), Product Development Performance, was published in 1991 by HBS Press. Other books include Dynamic Manufacturing (with R.H. Hayes and S.C. Wheelwright, Free Press, 1988) and Industrial Renaissance (with W.J. Abernathy and A.M. Kantrow, Basic Books, 1983). Additional publications include 'Managing in an Age of Modularity' (with C.Y. Baldwin, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1997),'Development Projects: The Engine of Renewal' (with H.K. Bowen, C.A. Holloway, and S.C. Wheelwright, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1994), 'Organizing and Leading 'Heavyweight' Development Teams' (with S.C. Wheelwright, California Management Review, Spring 1992), 'Capabilities and Capital Investment: New Perspectives on Capital Budgeting' (with C.Y. Baldwin, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 1991), and 'The Power of Product Integrity' (with T. Fujimoto, Harvard Business Review, November-December 1990).
Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School as an associate professor of accounting since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faculty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. During the 2016–2017 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was involved in several policy initiatives. Aiyesha earned her bachelor's degree with honors in Mathematics in 1996, for which she received the National Scholar Award from the government of India for her performance. In 1999 she graduated with an MBA in Accounting and Finance. She continued her graduate studies at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and graduated in 2005 with a PhD in Accounting. She conducts research in the areas of corporate governance, behavioral finance and financial reporting and disclosures. She serves on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research, and is a reviewer for several leading journals.
John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a multi-family office focused on alternative investments. He currently teaches “Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems,” a highly rated elective course that partners students with leading private equity firms on value-added projects, and an eleven-session lecture series on the private equity ecosystems. Mr. Dionne has also taught in the “Venture Capital and Private Equity,” “Starting Your own Private Equity Firm” SIP, and Executive Education programs. Mr. Dionne is also on the Boards of Directors of Cengage Learning, Clear Channel Outdoors, and Pelmorex. He previously served as a member of the Boards of Directors of Caesars Entertainment, Cineworld Group, Momentive Performance Materials, Sequential Brands, and several other companies and not-for-profit organizations. Until he retired as a Senior Managing Director from Blackstone, John was most recently its Global Head of the Private Equity Business Development and Investor Relations Groups. He served as a member of its Global Private Equity Investment and Valuation Committees and GSO (credit) Investment Committee. During his tenure in this position, Mr. Dionne led global fundraising efforts of over $17 billion for Blackstone’s flagship Private Equity fund immediately following the financial crisis. He later helped establish Blackstone's Tactical Opportunities and Energy investment funds, which have grown to assets under management of over $50 billion. He also assisted in the formation and scaling of the firm's retail investor platform. Mr. Dionne joined Blackstone in 2004 as the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Blackstone Distressed Securities Fund, the firm's initial entry into the single-manager hedge fund business, with peak assets under management of over $2 billion. During this period, he also served on the Investment Committees of several of its alternative investment funds. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Dionne was a Partner and Portfolio Manager for Bennett Restructuring Funds, a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund specializing in financially troubled companies. Previously, Mr. Dionne was a Partner at Saugatuck Capital, where he invested in middle-market buyouts and restructured troubled portfolio companies. From 1991 through 1996, he was Director of Corporate Development for a predecessor of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Mr. Dionne began his career at Price Waterhouse as a public accountant. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant (inactive). A native of New Hampshire, John received academic honors while earning an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Scranton, where he is a past Chair of its Board of Trustees.
Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after and longest-running elective courses in the School’s curriculum, and chairs a short executive education program, also named "The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports." She further chairs a semester-long mentoring program, "Crossover Into Business," that is specifically designed for professional athletes. In partnership with Mercedes Formula One team principal Toto Wolff, she has developed a short course for MBA students on "High Performance Management: Leading a Formula One Team." She has received teaching awards on multiple occasions from both the Harvard Business School and its students, including the Charles M. Williams Award for excellence in teaching, "Best of EC Year" honors (for top faculty teaching in the Elective Curriculum), and the Faculty Teaching Award. She has also won the "Outstanding Case Teacher" award in The Case Centre's worldwide competition, also known as "business education's Oscars." In her research, Professor Elberse primarily aims to understand what drives the success of products in the entertainment, media, sports, and other creative industries, and how firms can effectively manage products and talent in such sectors. She is acclaimed for her work on digital-media strategies, the power of superstar talent, and leadership and team management, and she frequently uses econometric modeling techniques to examine media-industry problems. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, and several other journals. She was named a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, and served on the editorial board of Marketing Science. Professor Elberse has conducted case studies on dozens of entertainment companies, personalities, and other entities. These include record label A&M/Octone Records, cable operator Comcast, book publisher Grand Central Publishing, Broadway show Hamilton, online video provider Hulu, music streaming service Spotify, the campaign for Jay-Z's book Decoded by advertising agency Droga5, entertainment companies Live Nation, Marvel Enterprises, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Studios, nightlife business Marquee, the Metropolitan Opera, sports leagues MLB and the NFL, MRC's television series House of Cards, Shonda Rhimes' production company ShondaLand, Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions and Ava DuVernay's Array, soccer clubs AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona, Boca Juniors, Paris Saint Germain and Real Madrid, NBA team the Milwaukee Bucks, the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, World Wrestling Entertainment, soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson and Formula One team principal Toto Wolff, Vogue magazine, fashion house Burberry, sports apparel brand Nike, and superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo, David Beckham, Beyoncé, BTS, Roger Federer, Lady Gaga, Chip and Joanna Gaines, LeBron James, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, MrBeast, Francis Ngannou, Ninja, Mohamed Salah, Maria Sharapova, Dwyane Wade, and Pharrell Williams. Several of these case studies are described in her bestselling first book, Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, which Amazon named one of its Best Books of 2013. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, professor Elberse was a Visiting Fellow at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD from London Business School, an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and an MA in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam (cum laude). A native of The Netherlands but now an American citizen, she was awarded a Netherland-America Foundation/Fulbright Fellowship. Professor Elberse is one of the youngest female professors to have been promoted to full professor with tenure in Harvard Business School's history.Looking to get in touch with professor Elberse? Feel free to do so via this form.
Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms; the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance; and how organizational narratives about gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her papers have received numerous awards and are published in academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review, and, for practitioners, in Harvard Business Review. Professor Ely is presently conducting research on organizational culture change aimed at reducing workplace inequality, strategies for women leaders to navigate gender stereotypes, HBS alumni career and life decisions, and unconscious racial dynamics that contribute to racial inequality’s persistence in U.S. organizations. She is founder and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative, whose mission is to catalyze and translate cutting-edge research to transform practice; enable leaders to drive change; and eradicate gender, race, and other forms of inequality in business and society. She teaches MBA courses in leadership as well as doctoral courses in field research methods and executive education courses designed specifically for women leaders. She served for six years as HBS’s senior associate dean for culture and community. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Professor Ely taught at Columbia University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.
Natalia received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2021 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Italy. Her primary research interests are in comparative politics and the political economy of development, with a focus on corruption, public goods provision, and accountability in Latin America. She also studies the formation of citizens' and ex-combatants' attitudes towards peace agreements and their role in stabilizing peace in post-conflict settings. She holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Los Andes (Colombia). Prior to her Ph.D., she worked at the World Bank, the Democracy Observatory, and the Colombian National Planning Department.
Hise Gibson graduated from West Point, where he was a member of the Division-1A Army football team. Following graduation, he commissioned in the US Army as an Aviation Officer in the UH60 Blackhawk Helicopter. He served with distinction in various command and staff positions for over 25 years with his most recent operational assignment being Battalion Commander in the historic 82nd Airborne Division. During his military service, he received the Bronze Star Medal for exceptional leadership in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a UH-60 Blackhawk Commander in Iraq, he significantly contributed to the Medical Evacuation Support in Afghanistan and oversaw the development of an airbase for the country's helicopter training school. Among other military decorations, he received the Legion of Merit, Master Aviator badge, Parchutist badge, and the Air Assault badge. He earned the rank of Colonel before retiring in 2021. Professor Gibson has an MS in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Masters in Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College, and a Doctorate in Business Administration in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard Business School. Until July of 2021, Colonel Gibson served as an Academy Professor in the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy. He also established and directed the Systems Decisions and Analysis Center, directed the department’s core engineering sequence and engaged in strategic outreach as a Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His research and consulting activities have been in the areas of technology integrations, operational effectiveness, leadership, leader development, human capital development, change management, and leading teams through crisis. He currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife Nicole and two daughters
Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit. His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies use to revitalize their business, improve performance, and create value when facing significant financial and operating challenges. He is an expert on corporate restructuring, valuation, business bankruptcy, credit analysis, and financial strategy. Professor Gilson’s research has been published by leading academic and practitioner journals and has been cited by the national news media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, The Economist, and Bloomberg. His work has received numerous honors, including the prestigious Graham and Dodd Award for his article on investment strategies used by hedge funds to acquire control of distressed companies. He has also written more than sixty HBS case studies that are used in business schools around the world. His best-selling book, Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups (John-Wiley), is now in its second edition. He is the recipient of the Charles M. Williams award in recognition of outstanding teaching in executive education at Harvard Business School. He currently teaches in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and various other executive programs including YPO/WPO and Finance For Senior Executives. For twenty years he taught one of the most popular MBA courses at HBS, Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring. Professor Gilson consults for a variety of companies and organizations. He is a director of Advanced Alloy Processing LLC, and served on the advisory boards of the Turnaround Management Association and several investment funds. He provides expert testimony in corporate litigation, and is an academic affiliate of Cornerstone Research, a leading economic consulting firm. He also teaches Finance in custom executive training programs that he designs for individual client companies.
A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952. Together with John H. Davis he developed the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School in 1955. From 1970 to 1997 he was the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business and head of the Agribusiness Program. Since July 1, 1997, as emeritus professor, he has chaired the Agribusiness Senior Management Seminars at Harvard Business School and taught a course on Food Policy and Agribusiness at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and also taught a junior tutorial seminar on Climate and Its Impact on the Global Food System at Harvard College. He is also an Honorary Professor and a member of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England. He is coordinator of the Joint Business, Scientific, Public Policy, Consumer Policy Technology Committee of the U.S. Food System (PAPSAC) which meets annually at Harvard University.He received the Distinguished Service Award from Harvard Business School in June 2001. Dr. Goldberg is the author, co-author and or editor of 23 books and over 110 articles on positioning firms and institutions in the global value added food system. He also has authored and supervised the development of hundreds of case studies on various private, public, and farm cooperative firms and institutions in the global food system. His most recent publications involve developing strategies for private, public, and cooperative managers as they position their firms, institutions, and government agencies in a rapidly changing global food system. He is also conducting research on the major biological, logistical, packaging and informational revolutions that affect global agribusiness managers as they attempt to cope with the volatile restructuring of major commodity systems. Dr. Goldberg has served on over 40 Boards of Directors of major agribusiness firms, farm cooperatives, and technology firms. He has advised financial institutions on their agribusiness investments such as Rabobank, John Hancock and Agriculture Technology Partners. He is one of the founders and first President of the International Agribusiness Management Association and is a lifetime board advisor and consultant to numerous government agencies and private firms. He is an Overseer Emeritus of the Beth Israel Medical Center. He served as a member of the Science Advisory Board of the IFT/FDA Research Contract, and was Chairman of the Advisory Panel for a World Bank Guide to developing Agricultural Markets and Agro-Enterprises. He was Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Social Development in a Global Context of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council. He was Chairman of the Task Force to Utilize Tobacco Funds for Economic Development for the State of Kentucky. He was Co-Director of the European Food and Agribusiness Seminar that took place in Rome, Italy October 2015. Dr. Goldberg was a member of the Presidential Mission to Poland in December of 1989. He was a member and speaker at the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2020 Vision: Beyond Reorganization Senior Policy Retreat in May of 1994. He is Chairman of the Russian Food Management Program Research Project and Seminar sponsored by the international Agribusiness Management Association. He most recent articles are entitled the 'Business of Agriceuticals' published in Nature Biotechnology, Volume 17 Supplement 1999; 'Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution,' co-authored with Juan Enriquez and published in the Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000; and 'Food Wars: A Potential Peace' published in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Supplement to Volume 28 No. 4 Selected Proceedings of 'Genes and Society: Impact of New Technologies on Law, Medicine, and Policy, May 10-12, 2000' pages 39-45 Winter 2000:and Biotechnology and the Agricultural Industry of the Future published in the Conference Proceedings of the Eight Annual Conference of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research(ECSSR) Abu Dhabi U.A.E. August 2003. He is currently working on a history of the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School. He was made a Fellow of the International Agribusiness Management Association in 2004. In July of 2005 he became a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economic Association. His wife Thelma Englander died on March 14, 2015 and he has three children and six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the Harvard Economics Department. Brian received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and holds an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University. He served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economics Advisers (CEA) in 1990-91. Brian also served as Executive Vice President and later, Acting CEO, of Alghanim Industries, one of the largest multi-business companies in the Middle East. He served as the founding faculty chair of the HBS Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He is the recipient of HBS’s Robert F. Greenhill award. Brian teaches, researches, and consults in the area of organizational strategy and behavioral economics, with a focus on performance management and how companies design, build and implement compensation and incentive systems. He has taught various courses on organizational strategy, compensation, incentive design, negotiations and behavioral economics in the MBA, PhD, and executive education programs. He currently teaches a course on Behavioral Economics and Incentive Design in the Advanced Management Program (AMP), the HBS program for the most senior executives. The course is focused on how managers and boards build effective motivation and incentive systems within their organizations. Professor Hall also teaches in the Behavioral Economics executive education program at HBS. Professor Hall’s research has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals, and he has written over 50 case studies in the area of organizational strategy, performance management, and compensation and incentives. His research is frequently in the national and international financial press and he has been the featured speaker at numerous conferences and symposia. He has provided expert testimony on executive pay before the U.S. Senate and appeared on CNBC and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and many other news stations. Professor Hall is currently writing a book on how to design, build, and implement successful compensation and incentive systems within organizations. He has served as a consultant and board advisor to leading global companies in a variety of sectors, including Intel, CITI, Textron, L.L. Bean, Pratt & Whitney, Duracell, P&G and J. P. Morgan and many others. Brian’s research, consulting, and board advisory work has a special focus on the design of executive and equity-based pay plans. Brian and his wife, Theresa, have two grown children and they live in Manchester MA with their golden retriever, Gilley. Brian enjoys boating, hiking, travel and almost any outdoor sport.
Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1 in the MBA required curriculum and Ph.D. courses in Corporate Finance and Empirical Methods. Professor Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics and Philosophy from Tufts University. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers and as an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. During 2009 Hanson worked at the U.S. Treasury Department where he served as a Special Assistant and Liaison to the White House National Economic Council. Professor Hanson’s research interests lie in asset pricing, behavioral finance, corporate finance, and financial intermediation. Hanson’s research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. His research explores how investors’ behavioral biases and institutional factors affect the pricing of broad financial asset classes, with a particular emphasis on debt markets. He also studies how changes in the behavior of financial institutions have affected the stability of the financial system in recent decades and how the government might design policies to better safeguard the system’s stability.
Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. She teaches Avoiding Startup Failure, Launching Technology Ventures, and Startup Bootcamp. Lindsay also serves as the HBS Faculty co-chair of the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program, a new collaborative endeavor between Harvard Business School and the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences designed to bring together outstanding Harvard College students building at the intersection of technology and business. Additionally, Lindsay is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Moderne Ventures, a $200M venture capital fund focused on the real estate sector. She advises portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, customer acquisition, and B2B sales. Prior to her time at Moderne, Lindsay founded and led start-ups in the real estate and education spaces, leading her to be named one of Goldman Sachs's “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.” She co-founded Baroo, a venture backed services-as-amenities platform used by the largest Class A multifamily owners and operators. She served as the Executive Director of Wildflower Schools Massachusetts, an early education start-up incubated in the MIT Media Lab launching Montessori microschools across the state. Lindsay began her career founding an international not-for-profit mentoring organization, Strong Women, Strong Girls, that has impacted the lives of over 10,000 women and girls globally. In addition to her work with early stage companies, Lindsay is a Director at Monro (NASDAQ: MNRO), where she serves on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Responsibility committees. She also serves on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility for Harvard University. Lindsay earned her AB, magna cum laude, in Sociology and the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality from Harvard College and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies the experience, antecedents, and consequences of passion. His work reveals that scholars and the broader public often fundamentally misunderstand passion. In line with the popular adage, “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,” many participants in his studies believe that it is easy to pursue their passion, but his research shows it is actually difficult to do so. In fact, the German word for passion, Leidenschaft, translates to “the ability to endure hardship,” hinting at its demanding nature. Prior literature also commonly assumes that when it comes to passion, “you either have it or you don’t,” but his research shows that passion fluctuates day-to-day, or even within each day. And perhaps most importantly, scholars often position passion as a resource that can address countless challenges, from motivating employees to tackling social issues, but his research shows that sustaining passion over the long term is its own challenge, and requires proactive effort from individuals, managers, and organizations.His research suggests that these misconceptions can create a vicious cycle that impedes people from realizing the benefits of pursuing passion. His research leverages both theory and data to offer practical pathways for people and organizations to overcome these pitfalls and unlock the true potential of passion. To capture the dynamic nature of passion, he predominantly uses experience sampling or daily diary methods within organizations, in which people respond to short surveys multiple times per day over the course of several weeks. He also leverages surveys, laboratory and field experiments, interviews, and archival data to complement this approach. Jon received a Ph.D. from Columbia Business School, M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews. He was listed as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, a Poets & Quants 40 under 40 honoree, a Forbes 30 under 30, and on the Thinkers 50 Radar List. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and others.
Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies issues of identity, inequality, and diversity at work. She has worked with numerous fast-growth technology companies on their DEI initiatives to uncover policies and practices that support building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. Her research has been recognized with the INFORMS Best Dissertation Award, as the runner up for the Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation Award, and has appeared in scholarly and news outlets such as Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIT News and Harvard Business Review. She is on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science. Professor Jackson is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was recognized as a Presidential Fellow and Graduate Woman of Excellence. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, where her service was recognized with a Meritorious Honor Award and the Fleet Seminar Fellowship at the Naval War College. Professor Jackson is married to Luke Tarbi, a senior marketing executive, angel investor, and former Navy officer. They have one son and live in the Moss Hill neighborhood of Boston. Their family spends their free time hiking and skiing the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Archie Jones is Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School with an appointment in both the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. In addition to teaching required curriculum courses in both units, Archie is a co-founder and course head for an elective field course: Scaling Minority Businesses and co-teaches an elective field course: The HBS Impact Fund. In recognition of his positive impact on the Harvard Business School community, he was awarded the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. He is a Managing Director of Six Pillars Partners, and has held executive positions with both public and private companies including Merrill Lynch, Parthenon Capital, Kenexa and IBM and NOW Corporation. With his focus on strategy, private equity and corporate M&A transactions, Archie has led investments across a variety of industries and sectors in the US, Asia and Europe. Archie continues to serve on the Board of Directors of several corporations and non-profit organizations. In 2021, Archie was recognized by Savoy Magazine as one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors. He currently serves as a Director of Fleetcor Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FLT) and Jobvite, Inc.; Board Chair for Project Evident; and serves on the board of Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Foundation. He also serves as an Investor in Residence at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs and as an Executive in Residence at New Profit, Inc. Archie is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard Business School.
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and an honorary PhD from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He taught previously at the London School of Economics, and Cambridge and Reading Universities in the UK, and at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He has held Visiting Professorships at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, and Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, and is an Affiliate Professor of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Elsewhere at Harvard, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for African Studies, the Faculty Committee of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and on the Policy Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Professor Jones researches the evolution, impact and responsibility of global business. He has published on the history of global business, specializing both in consumer products, including beauty and fashion, and services such as banking, reinsurance and commodity trading. He has written extensively on the business history of emerging markets, especially in Latin America, South Asia and Turkey, and launched and co-ordinates the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project at the Harvard Business School. Professor Jones developed and teaches the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course, which explores the role of entrepreneurship in the globalization cycles of the last two hundred years, in the second year of the MBA program. He is an International Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2022 he was the recipient of the European Business History Association's first Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Jones's books include Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (Oxford University Press, 2005), Renewing Unilever. Transformation and Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2005). and Beauty Imagined (Oxford University Press, 2010), which provides the first history of the global beauty industry from a business perspective. His more recent research has focussed on the ecological and social impact and responsibility of business. Recent books include Profits and Sustainability: A Global History of Green Entrepreneurship (Oxford University Press, 2017), which provides a global history of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century until the present day, Varieties of Green Business (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), which explores variations in the nature of green business between industries and nations, and over time. and (co-authored with Tarun Khanna) is Leadership to Last (Penguin Random House, 2022) which examines the nature of business leadership in India. His most recent book, Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership is published by Harvard University Press. It looks historically and globally how a small number of business leaders have sought to combine profits and social purpose in their businesses. The book shows what socially and ecologically responsible businesses have really looked like, and asks whether they can work, what trade-offs have to be made, and whether they are even desirable.
Hyunjin Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Her research explores how the increased availability of information in the digital economy shapes firm strategy and the nature of market competition. In her research, she has collaborated closely with Fortune 100 companies as well as small tech startups. Her work has been written about in a variety of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TIME, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and Vox. Hyunjin earned her A.B. in Social Studies at Harvard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. She also received a M.Sc in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford and a M.Sc in Economics and Management at the London School of Economics. Prior to her graduate studies, Hyunjin co-founded and directed the Emerge Venture Lab, an early-stage venture capital fund for technology startups working on social and environmental issues. She has also worked at McKinsey & Company and Knewton.
John J-H Kim is a Senior Lecturer and part of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the course Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship—leaders and entrepreneurs who are improving the trajectories of our nation’s youth and striving to create a more equitable society. John Co-Chairs the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint venture of HBS and HGSE—strengthening the management and leadership capabilities of urban school district leaders. Professor Kim is also the founder and CEO of District Management Group which helps school districts to implement system-wide efforts that lead to higher performance. Prior to joining HBS in 2011, Professor Kim had an extensive background as a social entrepreneur including starting and leading a school management company with 20,000+ students. He actively mentors entrepreneurs and is engaged with several organizations working to create educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths.
Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students. He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy, private markets, and financial innovation can help insure those risks. His recent projects have focused on improving our understanding of the economic consequences of health care policy, the consumer bankruptcy system, and financial and insurance technology. His research has been published in journals including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and received coverage from news outlets including The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Economist, and The Washington Post. Ray earned his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Household Finance at NBER before joining HBS. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Economics, Mathematics, and Political Science.
Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium. Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA, Ph.D., and executive programs at Harvard Business School, including, Managerial Economics, Competitive Decision Making, Strategy, and Finance. He is currently teaching the Advanced Microeconomics course in the doctoral program, as well as the elective MBA course Games of Chance and Games of Strategy. Professor Kohlberg serves on the board of directors of Medinol and Digi-Block, Inc. Previously, he served on the boards of Teva Pharmaceuticals and Ormat Technologies. He received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research explores how we can help more entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators succeed. His work on entrepreneurship and innovation spans industries and regions, from Indian tech ventures to small business owners in Kenya to women’s and mental health startups in the US. Building on this work, he is the co-director and co-founder of the Tech for All lab at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, where he leads a group of interdisciplinary researchers studying how entrepreneurs can accelerate and shift the rate and direction of science, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit all of humanity. A pioneer in the use of field experiments to study entrepreneurial strategy and innovation, Rem co-leads the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS), is an associate editor for Management Science, and is an invited researcher at J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI). He has received generous research funding from the Kauffman and Sloan Foundations.Rem teaches a new semester-length second-year elective course at HBS, Strategy for Entrepreneurs (SFE), that blends case discussion and hands-on exercises to help students discover and test startup ideas that the market has missed.Rem earned degrees in mathematics and statistics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He teaches entrepreneurship, strategy, and general management to executives, MBA students, and scientists. His work has been published in Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, Organization Science, and the American Sociological Review. It has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, STAT News, Nature, Vox, and the New York Times.
Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership and ethics. He has taught courses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Authentic Leadership Development, and Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). Professor Margolis’ research focuses on leading in complex situations involving tradeoffs. In particular, he focuses on the distinctive ethical challenges that arise in organizations and how managers can navigate these challenges with practical effectiveness and moral integrity, especially in perform-or-else settings. Professor Margolis has published his work in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Business Ethics Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and along with James P. Walsh, he authored the book, People and Profits: the Search for a Link between a Company’s Social and Financial Performance. Professor Margolis is currently engaged in research on how companies and individuals defy countervailing forces to make a significant impact and how professionals in a variety of settings navigate moral adversity and address ethical challenges with a combination of ingenuity and integrity. Professor Margolis received his B.A. from Yale University and his A.M. (Sociology) and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, where he was also a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions. Joshua joined the HBS faculty in 2000 after three years on the faculty at the University of Michigan as a Fellow in the Society of Scholars. He has received the Robert F. Greenhill Award, the Student Association Faculty Award for teaching excellence, the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, and the Academy of Management award for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior.
Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a consultant to major corporations both in the U.S. and in Europe. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1965, except for a year as Associate Dean for Research at INSEAD, France. At Harvard he has held a number of administrative positions, including Chairman of the Admissions Policy Committee and Chairman of the Managerial Economics Area. In recent years, Professor Meyer has been teaching and doing research in Financial Risk Management, Negotiation, and Competitive Strategy. During the Fall of '97 he taught Financial Risk Management in the second year of the MBA program and in the Spring of '98 he taught Negotiation to first year MBA students. His current research and course development focuses on the use of derivatives to hedge financial risk in corporations. Professor Meyer is a fellow of the Operations Research Society of America, a member of the Strategic Management Society, and has published numerous papers in operations research, decision analysis, utility theory, financial economics, and the application of computers in Operations Research, Naval Research, Logistics Quarterly, Information and Control, ASME Transactions, The Journal of Financial Economics, et al. He has lectured extensively on these subjects, and continues active in industrial consulting and research. He has participated in a number of pioneering applications of computers to business problems, including service order handling at Michigan Bell Telephone; the reservations system of American Airlines; and one of the first fully integrated multi-location invoicing, inventory control, and production scheduling systems at DuPont. More recently, Professor Meyer has concentrated on applications in long-term planning under uncertainty and risk management. He was a member of the U.S. Presidentis Space Task Force, which advised the President on U.S. Space policy and is co-author (with R. Bauer) of NASA Planning and Decision Making, Vol. I and II. He has participated in a number of corporate venture analysis and strategic planning projects, has worked on airline fleet planning and on commodity and foreign exchange risk management. In the public sector, he has been a consultant to the United States Railway Association and one of their principal witnesses in the Penn Central Valuation proceedings. Professor Meyer has served on a number of boards, and is currently Chairman of New England Digital Distribution, a telecommunications company, and a director of NV Ahold, one of the world's major retailing firms, represented in the U.S. through five large supermarket chains. In the public sector, he has been a member of the Presidents Space Task Force and the Pennsylvania Pension Fund Commission, and is Vice Chairman of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.
Michael Montelongo is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum that shows how to effectively design, manage, and improve service organizations by focusing on the intersection of leadership, strategy, marketing, and operations. He has an extensive background in service industries ranging from facilities, hospitality, and food services to telecommunications and to aerospace and defense, including government service in the military, the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has previously served as an assistant professor teaching economics and political science at West Point. Montelongo is the founder of GRC Advisory Services, LLC, a private firm specializing in board governance, risk management, and compliance matters. Most recently he was Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President for Sodexo, Inc (Euronext: SW). A sought-after board governance speaker, panelist and thought leader, audit committee financial expert, and National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow, Montelongo serves on corporate and nonprofit boards including Civeo Corporation (NYSE: CVEO), Conduent Inc (NASDAQ: CNDT), and the NACD. He is also on the faculties of the NACD, Thayer Leadership, and the Latino Corporate Director’s Education Foundation’s Board Ready Institute (BRI). Montelongo is a former Bush White House appointee who served as the 19th Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Air Force and the first Latino in that role managing a budget of over $120 billion and financing two major combat operations for the world’s largest military aviation and space force. He concluded his tenure at the Pentagon as acting secretary of the Air Force and later served on the NASA Advisory Council. A national security, geopolitics, and public policy expert, Montelongo is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Bush administration, Montelongo was an executive with a global management consulting firm, a regional telecommunications company, and completed a career in the U.S. Army and a Congressional Fellowship in the U.S. Senate. A native of New York City’s Lower East Side and the first in his extended Mexican and Puerto Rican family to attend college, Montelongo earned his bachelor’s degree in science from West Point and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. Active in civic leadership, Montelongo volunteers for organizations that expand opportunities for young people, support community health and wellness, assist veterans, and promote national service. Besides military awards and the highest decorations for Exceptional Civilian Service in the Air Force and NASA, Montelongo’s positive impact on the directorship and Latino communities has been widely recognized in several national Hispanic/Latino publications and board governance journals. Montelongo and his wife, Sedona, reside in Scottsdale, Arizona, and have one daughter and three grandchildren.
Kym Lew Nelson joined the NOM unit of the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Lecturer in January of 2020. In July of 2020, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Negotiations unit. Prior to joining the faculty, Kym was a guest lecturer in the Negotiations class at HBS for over four years. She has spent the last year writing new cases with the focus on diverse protagonists. Twenty years ago, Ms. Nelson started The KLEW Company, a consulting and training firm focusing on strategic sourcing, procurement optimization, negotiations, and supplier diversity. Her customers include Fortune 100 companies, midsize firms, colleges/universities, public entities, as well as minority-owned firms. Prior to the formation of KLEW, Ms. Nelson was with the Procter and Gamble Company where she spent over 18 years. More than ten of those years were spent in the area of Procurement/Purchasing where she was involved in a variety of negotiations and contract development around the globe. She was the first African American women to be promoted to Director/VP in the Procurement organization. She also spent eight years in Brand Management/Marketing in the Health Care business unit. In addition, she spent two years at Bain and Company working on corporate strategy development. Ms. Nelson has managed global organizations, global suppliers and global Brands. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing both business and procurement strategies with successes in growing the business and significantly reducing costs. Additionally she has many years of experience working with minority companies to enhance their ability to become effective suppliers. Kym received her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983. While at HBS, she was president of the African American Student organization (AASU). Her undergraduate degree is from Stanford University where she majored in Economics. While at Stanford she developed and implemented the Stanford - Howard University student exchange program and attended Howard University for a semester. She was also a member of the Stanford women’s basketball team. Ms. Nelson has two daughters. One is the “Black Forager,” a well known social media star and the other is also in the film industry. She currently commutes between Cincinnati and Boston. Additional cases (in progress) Kym Lew Nelson, Kris Ferreira, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Sarah Mehta. “Diversifying P&G’s Supplier Base (B)” Harvard Business School Supplement 622-029, 2021. Kym Lew Nelson, James K. Sebenius and Alex Green. “Career at a Crossroad.” Harvard Business School Case, 2021.
Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An American History), examines the historical roots of the development of the venture capital industry in the United States. He currently teaches a second year elective course: The Coming of Managerial Capitalism, which examines entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and business development in the United States over the past 240 years. He serves on the the Faculty Advisory Council to the Harvard University Library.
Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate performance. His research has been published in the very best, peer-reviewed journals of his profession and profiled by media outlets around the world, including Financial Times, Le Figaro, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Oberholzer-Gee teaches competitive strategy in the HBS MBA program and in executive education courses such as the Harvard General Management Program. He serves as faculty chair of the Senior Executive Leadership Program for China, the Driving Digital Strategy and the Managing Turbulence programs. He has held various leadership roles at HBS, including chair of the MBA program and Senior Associate Dean for the school’s global research centers. He is a cohost of the popular TED podcast After Hours. Among his happiest times are when he is cooking and eating (not necessarily in this order.)
William Poorvu is the Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He taught and was responsible for the real estate courses there for 35 years. He was the school's first adjunct professor, its first adjunct professor with a named chair and the first non-tenured professor at Harvard University to be given Emeritus status. He also was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Design for many years. He is the author of several books on real estate, the two most recent being Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth: The 4 Stages to a Lifetime of Success, 2008 and The Real Estate Game - The Intelligent Guide to Decision-Making and Investment, 1999. As a practitioner he has been the managing partner in a number of private real estate companies. From 1963-1982 he was the co-founder, Vice Chair and Treasurer of Boston Broadcasters, Inc., and in 1982 a co-founder and Chair of The Baupost Group L.L.C., an investment firm where he currently is Co-Chair of its Board of Advisors. For 22 years he was also an independent Trustee of the MFS Group of Mutual Funds. He has also served on the board of a number of public Real Estate Investment Trusts over the years. Among his community activities, he is a Life Trustee and former Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Trustee and Treasurer of the Gardner Museum and Vice Chair of the National Public Radio Foundation. He has chaired or co-chaired all three of their investment committees. He is a member of the Carnegie Corporation Investment Committee and a former member of the Yale University Investment Committee and of the Yale University Council. He has served on various government commissions including the State Department's Overseas Presence Advisory Panel. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1956 and his M.B.A. in 1958 from Harvard Business School.
Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines the role of land politics, urban governments, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her second book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023) examines state-business relations in Malaysia, Suharto's Indonesia, and the People's Republic of China. The book shows how trust or distrust between business and political elites and financial liberalization in authoritarian regimes interact to create different patterns of state-business relations. In the cases of Indonesia and contemporary China, Rithmire shows that distrust and financial liberalization produced mutual endangerment, by which business and political elites impress one another into dangerous and corrupt relationships that can be economically and politically destabilizing. Her work also focuses on China's role in the world, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries, especially the United States. A new project on business geopolitical risk and resilience, for which she is co-chairing an initiative with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, focuses on how firms can and should change their governance practices to deal with geopolitical and especially national security risk. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard, and the Harvard Faculty Committee on Southeast Asia. In 2022, she joined the editorial board of The China Quarterly. In 2015 and 2023, she won the Faculty Teaching Award in the Required Curriculum. She is also a member of the editorial boards for the China Quarterly and the China Journal.
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Roche studies the commercialization of specialized knowledge and the specific role of micro-geography in innovation. Her findings indicate that organizations can unlock significant innovation and performance benefits by leveraging micro-geographic nuances in the sourcing, production, and diffusion of knowledge. Her work, published at Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science and Research Policy, has been featured in The Atlantic, The Economist, The WSJ, and the Handelsblatt. She received best dissertation awards from the Technology and Innovation Management division at the Academy of Management, and from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (EGOS). She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, and Strategy Science. Professor Roche earned her PhD in Management (Strategy and Innovation) at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She earned an MS in Business Administration and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. Professor Roche has lived and worked in five countries gathering professional experience in various industries such as venture capital and film.
Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project. His research focuses on the measurement, disclosure, and management of human capital, with a particular interest in improving engagement of and outcomes for low-wage workers. He has been recognized by the American Accounting Association with the Competitive Manuscript Award, the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal, the Best Dissertation Award, and the Innovation in Accounting Research Award. His research has been published in The Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Management Science, and The Review of Accounting Studies, among others. He serves on the Design Team of the Aspen Institute Economic Mobility Accelerator Program and appears frequently in national and international media outlets. Professor Rouen earned a BA in history and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MS in journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From Columbia Business School, he received an MBA in finance and accounting, an M.Phil. in accounting, and a PhD in accounting.
Marco Sammon is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches FIN2 in the required curriculum. His research is focused on asset pricing. Currently, he is working on several projects regarding the factors that affect the incorporation of information into stock prices, including the rise of passive ownership and financial journalism. Professor Sammon holds a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University. Prior to Kellogg, he worked in Supervision, Regulation and Credit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 1969. Sasser developed the School's first course on the management of service operations in 1972. Professor Sasser has taught a variety of courses in the MBA program including Production and Operations Management, Decision Making and Ethical Values, The Operating Manager, and Service Management. In 1982, Sasser's excellence in the classroom was recognized in an article in Fortune profiling eight professors from business schools throughout the country. Professor Sasser was Chairman of the MBA Program from 1988 to 1991. He was also faculty chair of the Advanced Management Program executive education program from 1992-1995. From 1995-2000 Professor Sasser served as Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education. He served as Chairman of the Board of Harvard Business School Interactive, a not-for-profit corporation, from 2000 to 2003. Sasser is the past faculty chair of executive education's Program for Leadership Development [PLD] -- a program for which he served as the principal architect in 2004. He presently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and serves as faculty chair of several week-long leadership programs. In 1990 he co-authored (with HBS Professor James L. Heskett and former HBS assistant professor Christopher W.L. Hart) Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game. Based upon five years of extensive research in fourteen service industries, it explains how one or two firms in each industry are constantly able to set new standards for quality and value that force competitors to adapt or fail. Sasser has co-authored several other books in the field of service management including Management of Service Operations and The Service Management Course, The Service Profit Chain and The Value Profit Chain (with Professor James L. Heskett and Leonard A. Schlesinger) The Free Press: 2003. Professor Sasser's new book, Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage (with Professor James L. Hesket and Joe Wheeler), was published by the Harvard Business School Press, 2008. Sasser has written or co-written ten articles for Harvard Business Review, including "Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work," "The Profitable Art of Service Recovery," "Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services," "Match Supply and Demand in Service Industries," and "Why Satisfied Customer Defect." Professor Sasser serves as a consultant to a number of companies in North America, Asia and Europe.
Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi is a Berol Corporation Fellow and assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit, where he teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum. He is a faculty affiliate to the Gender Initiative at HBS and the Center for African Studies at Harvard Univerisity. His research is directed at information disclosure, debt contracting, and credit risks associated with firm operations and organizational forms. Professor Sikochi earned his PhD in business administration at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. He previously received an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Before his graduate studies, Professor Sikochi worked at a branch of FTI Consulting and at Charles River Associates.A native of Zimbabwe, Professor Sikochi came to the United States to attend Middlebury College, graduating with majors in economics and Russian. He is active in the EducationUSA United States Student Achievers Program, which helped him prepare for U.S. higher education. He is also engaged in the PhD Project, an organization with a mission to increase the diversity of U.S. business school faculty. He and his wife are parents of four children.
Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively prevent, detect, and respond to reputational and regulatory threats. Professor Soltes teaches graduate-level courses on regulatory environments and risk management, and was the recipient of the Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching. Professor Soltes is the author of the bestselling book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal, which was described by Kirkus Reviews as “a groundbreaking study” on white-collar criminality. Based on years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, the book refutes popular explanations of why seemingly successful managers engage in misconduct by showing that many make decisions on the basis of intuitions and gut feelings. The trouble, Professor Soltes shows, is that these gut feelings are often poorly suited for the modern business world. Professor Soltes is a leader in utilizing data analytics to predict, detect, and mitigate issues related to organizational misconduct. He frequently serves as an advisor and consultant to multinational corporations regarding the design of their compliance programs, and is routinely invited to speak to regulators, including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the United States Treasury. Drawing on his experience with companies and government agencies, Professor Soltes founded Integrity Lab, which creates integrated, data-driven technology to cultivate organizational integrity and strengthen corporate culture. Professor Soltes’ contributions have been widely cited by the media including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, NPR, and The Economist. He is also on the editorial board of Harvard Data Science Review. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, Professor Soltes received his PhD and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his AM in statistics and AB in economics from Harvard University. Professor Soltes lives in Cambridge with his wife, a rheumatologist, and two young children.
Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the Digital Value Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard. He co-leads the HBS MBA program as the chair of the MBA Elective Curriculum. He was previously the head of the Accounting & Management faculty department and the course head for the required HBS MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. Professor Srinivasan’s expertise spans three research domains – data science and artificial intelligence, corporate governance and boards of directors, and financial reporting and risk management. Professor Srinivasan’s research on how artificial intelligence is transforming business at the Digital Value Lab covers topics on digital performance impact, governance of AI, strategies for adoption of AI and gen AI across a range of industries and business functions, with a focus on AI in finance, banking, and capital markets,. He teaches the HBS MBA course Data Science for Managers, created a new MBA elective course Generative AI for Business Leaders, and frequently teaches AI topics in several executive programs. He has published research on AI and data driven decision making at scholarly journals as well as in the Harvard Business Review and has written several case studies on cutting edge phenomenon related to the topics of AI, gen AI, and big data. He frequently works with companies and consulting firms on topics related to AI and digital transformation. Professor Srinivasan is also a widely published expert in corporate governance and boards of directors. He chairs or co-chairs the board governance programs at HBS, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Preparing to be a Corporate Director, Advanced Corporate Director Seminar, and programs for audit committees and compensation committees. He serves on the Board of Directors and as the chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Harvard Business Publishing Corp., a media and publishing business, and is the chair of the advisory board of Newsweek Inc. He also serves on the Harvard University Information Security Risk Oversight Board. He frequently advises boards of directors and audit and compensation committees on board effectiveness, corporate governance polices, board assessment and training, financial reporting and disclosure matters, executive compensation, and internal controls and risk management. Professor Srinivasan has written extensively in the areas of financial reporting, accounting, risk management, and governance challenges in companies. His research examines accounting quality, governance of financial reporting and auditing, the auditing industry, accounting fraud and misconduct, and the role of capital market intermediaries such as sell-side analysts. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review, among others. He is the department editor for accounting at Management Science, a premier scholarly management journal. His case studies are used extensively in business schools and accounting programs around the world. He is currently developing a course for HBS Online titled Strategic Financial Analysis and previously taught Business Analysis and Valuation, an MBA elective course. Professor Srinivasan has also worked extensively on strategy execution and management systems, a topic he teaches in the HBS Owner/President Management program for entrepreneurs and family business owners and in the General Managers Program for senior business executives. He serves as an advisor to CEOs and assists leadership teams in several organizations on strategy formulation and execution. Professor Srinivasan earned a bachelor's degree with honors in electrical and electronics engineering and a master's degree in physics with honors from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences in India prior to earning an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He received a doctorate degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 2004 where he received the George S. Dively Award for outstanding thesis research. At HBS, he has received the Received the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Faculty Service and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Srinivasan was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 2004 – 2008 where he received the Ernest R. Wish Accounting Research prize.
Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop. Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital markets, and the financial system. Two of his papers have won annual prizes for research excellence. "Managerial Decisions and Long-Term Stock Price Performance," written with Mark Mitchell, won the Merton Miller Prize for the paper deemed most significant in the 2000 Journal of Business , and "Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets," written with Mark Mitchell and Todd Pulvino, won the Smith-Breeden Prize for outstanding paper in the Journal of Finance. Erik has an undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.In addition to his work at Harvard, Erik is an occassional advisor to financial firms.
Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an investment analyst, equity research director and portfolio manager in New York, London and Geneva. Before joining Capital, Eva was an investment banking associate for Goldman Sachs in New York and prior to that a project manager for Poland’s Ministry of Finance. In addition to an MBA from Harvard Business School, she has a bachelor’s degree in economics and organizational behavior from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude.
Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in the MBA required curriculum and Ph.D. courses in Corporate Finance and Empirical Methods. Professor Sunderam holds a Ph.D. in business economics and an A.B. in computer science and economics, both from Harvard University. In 2009 and 2010, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department as a special assistant and liaison to the White House National Economic Council. Professor Sunderam's research interests are in corporate finance, asset pricing, and financial intermediation. His work focuses on the organization of financial markets and its effect on asset prices and corporate investment. It has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He serves as an associate editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies.Link to Personal Website Link to CVLink to List of Outside ActivitiesBehavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project
Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and development economics. His research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity. Professor Tamayo examines the market responses to settings in which firms use price discrimination (i.e. subscriptions, or membership fees) for goods and services. His research also focuses on the ways in which managers contribute to the productivity dynamics of their teams. Professor Tamayo earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California. He has a B.A. in economics and an M.S. in applied mathematics from Eafit University in Medellin, Colombia. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, he worked at the Central Bank of Colombia and as an adjunct professor in the department of economics at Eafit University.
Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change and Investing for Impact, and the first-year required courses on the Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) and Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). His research focuses on social entrepreneurship, systems change, impact investing, and the role of business in society. Brian is also a Partner and Board Member at Bridges Fund Management, an impact investing fund that invests in health, education and environmental services business. Prior to Bridges, Brian was the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen, where he oversaw investments in South Asia and Africa. Brian is a founding board member of Impact Capital Managers, a national membership association of impact investors in the United States and a founding board member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). Prior to Acumen, Brian worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, was a lead environmental staff person at the Corporation for National Service. He has been involved in a range of non-profit and for-profit start ups. Brian serves on the boards of Candid, the Global Development Incubator and Digitals Commons and is both a Kauffman Fellow of the Center for Venture Education and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Brian has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and an MA in City & Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2012 to 2019, he taught a graduate course in social entrepreneurship at Princeton University’s School for Public and International Affairs.
Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in Numbers explores how even weak groups in society are able to gain economic and political influence. Trumbull has also written books on French innovation policy (Silicon and the State), consumer credit markets (Consumer Lending), and European consumer politics (Consumer Capitalism). His current research and teaching focuses on climate change. He has a book forthcoming at Harvard Business School Press entitled A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change. He has written a range of cases focused on climate entrepreneurs and the regulatory environment in which they operate. In 2022, he launched a new course in the MBA secund year curriculum entitled Global Climate Change. Professor Trumbull earned his AB in History and Literature at Harvard College. After college, he helped to found the NGO Geohazards International. He earned his PhD in Political Science at MIT, and joined HBS in 2001 as a member of the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. Recent honors include the Williams Award for excellence in teaching and the Student Association’s Faculty Award for outstanding teaching.
Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was the Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business from 1989 to 1998. He has also been a visiting professor at MIT (1982, 1996) and INSEAD (1995-1998, 2011). Tushman was awarded the Academy of Management’s Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management (2013) and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (2008). Tushman received distinguished scholar awards in the Technology and Innovation Management (1999), Organization Management and Theory (2003), and Organization Development and Change (2016) Divisions of the Academy of Management. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Management (1996). Tushman received the distinguished scholar award at INFORMS’ Technology Management Section (2010) and was recognized as a Foundational Scholar in the Knowledge and Innovation Group of the Strategic Management Society (2014). He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Training and Development (2013). Tushman received the Career Achievement Award for Major Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Technology Management from the Tusher Center for Management of Intellectual Capital, University of California, Berkeley, (2017). Tushman received The Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour & Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School (2011); HBS’s Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching (2013); and was named Lecturer of the Year at CHAMPS, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden, 2005). Professor Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological change, executive leadership and organization adaptation. His work centers on the role of senior teams in building organizations that host incremental as well as discontinuous innovation as well as leading those organizational changes associated with innovation streams. His work on ambidextrous organizational designs focuses on organizational and senior team characteristics that enable firms to exploit current capabilities as well explore into new spaces. He is working on the impact of distributed innovation on incumbent firms and the role of organizational identity in shaping a firm’s ability to handle paradoxical strategic requirements. Tushman has published numerous articles and books including Corporate Explorer (with A. Binns and C. O’Reilly), Wiley, 2022; Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma(with C. O'Reilly), Stanford University Press, 2016, 2nd Edition 2021; Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Renewal and Change (with C. O'Reilly), Harvard Business School Press, 1997; Leading Sustainable Change (with R. Henderson and R. Gulati), Oxford University Press, 2015; Navigating Change: How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation (with D. Hambrick and D. Nadler), Harvard Business School Press, 1998; Competing by Design: A Blueprint for Organizational Architectures (with D. Nadler), Oxford University Press, 1998; and Managing Strategic Innovation: A Collection of Readings (with P. Anderson), Oxford University Press, 1997, 2004. He and Mary Benner won the Academy of Management Review’s Best Paper Award (2004) and its Decade Award (2013). His papers with Charles O'Reilly won the Accenture Award from the California Management Review in 1997 and 2010. Tushman teaches courses on leading innovation and organization effectiveness and on leading strategic innovation and change. At Columbia, he won the first W. H. Newman Award for excellence and innovation in the classroom. At Harvard, Tushman is involved in comprehensive and focused executive education programs, the MBA program, as well as its doctoral programs. Tushman is the faculty chair of the Advanced Management Program as well as co-chair of the Management track of the DBA program and co-faculty chair of Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (LCOR). He was previously the faculty chair of the Program for Leadership Development (PLD). He has supervised many doctoral students, several who have won national awards for their dissertation research. Professor Tushman has served on the boards of many scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Dynamics, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served as chairperson of the Organization and Management Theory and the Technology and Innovation Management Divisions of the Academy of Management. Tushman is a consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs around the world. Tushman was senior advisor to the Delta Consulting Group and past trustee of IBM Credit Corporation. Tushman is a founding director of Change Logic.
Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise” in the second year), and he is the faculty lead for the Executive Education course entitled “Disruptive Innovation.” For the past three years, he has collaborated with faculty leads from Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard School of Public Health to create and deliver the January Term Short Intensive Program "The Spiritual Lives of Leaders," which brings