Recipient of the 2022 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class's HBS experience.
Emily R. McComb
Sokoloff Family Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Sokoloff Family Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, also serving as a Section Chair and is 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.
Finance
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.
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- McComb, Emily R., ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Apax Partners: Sustainability & Impact Metrics." Harvard Business School Case 225-081, February 2025. View Details
- McComb, Emily, Marco Sammon, and James Barnett. "Big Media's Game of Thrones." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 225-060, January 2025. View Details
- McComb, Emily R. "Due Diligence of Small Companies." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 225-068, January 2025. View Details
- McComb, Emily R. "Overview Principles of Financial Modeling for Small Companies in Investing for Impact." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 225-069, January 2025. View Details
- Fleiss, Sara, Emily R. McComb, and Josh Radman. "Planning for the Brown Family." Harvard Business School Case 225-048, November 2024. View Details
- McComb, Emily, and Marco Sammon. "Big Media's Game of Thrones." Harvard Business School Case 224-045, November 2023. View Details
- Fleiss, Sara L., and Emily R. McComb. "Choose Your Own Adventure: Your Financial Health (B): 5 Years Later, What Now?" Harvard Business School Exercise 223-044, December 2022. (Revised December 2024.) View Details
- Fleiss, Sara, and Emily R. McComb. "Choose Your Own Adventure: Your Financial Health (A): Congratulations, HBS Grad! Now, What?" Harvard Business School Exercise 223-043, November 2022. (Revised December 2022.) View Details
- McComb, Emily R. "Bond Analysis: Yield to Maturity." Harvard Business School Technical Note 223-077, February 2023. View Details
- McComb, Emily R., and Ruth Page. "Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 223-701, April 2023. (Click here to access this case.) View Details
- Berk, Ted, Emily R. McComb, and Julia Kelley. "Rentokil: The Terminix Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 223-061, January 2023. View Details
- McComb, Emily R., and Sara L. Fleiss. "The Economics of Growing the Cartwright Family." Harvard Business School Case 223-051, December 2022. View Details
- McComb, Emily R., and Sara Fleiss. "The Cartwrights’ Next Home: To Rent or To Buy?" Harvard Business School Case 223-050, November 2022. View Details
- McComb, Emily R., Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 223-702, August 2022. View Details
- McComb, Emily R., Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise." Harvard Business School Case 223-004, August 2022. (Revised November 2024.) View Details
- McComb, Emily R., Amy Klopfenstein, and Mel Martin. "Boston Impact Initiative: Investing in Local Change." Harvard Business School Case 323-012, August 2022. (Revised November 2024.) View Details
- Baker, Malcolm, and Emily R. McComb. "Celgene." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 218-743, April 2018. View Details
- Baker, Malcolm, and Emily McComb. "Celgene (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 218-099, March 2018. (Revised May 2018.) View Details
- Baker, Malcolm, and Emily McComb. "Celgene." Harvard Business School Case 218-094, March 2018. (Revised May 2018.) View Details
- Kester, W. Carl, and Emily R. McComb. "Capital Allocation at HCA." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 218-716, January 2018. (Revised January 2019.) View Details
- Viceira, Luis M., Emily R. McComb, and Sarah Mehta. "Brown Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 222-002, September 2021. View Details
- Viceira, Luis M., Emily R. McComb, and Dean Xu. "Modern Endowment Management: Paula Volent and the Bowdoin Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 221-101, June 2021. View Details
- McComb, Emily R. "Launching Casabe: Matching a Founder's Vision with Growth Capital." Harvard Business School Case 222-031, August 2021. (Revised August 2023.) View Details
- McComb, Emily R., and Erik Stafford. "Carnival Corp: Cruising In the Time of Covid." Harvard Business School Case 221-085, March 2021. (Revised November 2022.) View Details
- Siriwardane, Emil N., Emily R. McComb, and Eren Kuzucu. "Investing at Pivotal Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 221-033, October 2020. (Revised December 2020.) View Details
- McComb, Emily, and Emily Williams. "Growing Skoah." Harvard Business School Case 220-062, February 2020. (Revised February 2021.) View Details
- McComb, Emily. "The Bankruptcy of Cumulus Media." Harvard Business School Case 219-093, February 2019. (Revised December 2019.) View Details
- Kester, W. Carl, and Emily R. McComb. "Capital Allocation at HCA." Harvard Business School Case 218-039, January 2018. (Revised April 2021.) View Details
- Awards & Honors
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Received the 2022 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.
- Areas of Interest