Faculty

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He previously served as co-chair of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, co-chair of the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit, chairman of the board for Harvard Business School Publishing, and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. He is a widely published author of numerous articles and two textbooks, and has published more than 200 case studies on entrepreneurial ventures.

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Forest Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the head of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and serves as faculty chair of the School’s Asia-Pacific Research Center and chair of HBS Executive Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Reinhardt is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, which analyzes problems of environmental and natural resource management.

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Bharat Anand is the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration for Harvard Business School and Harvard University’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning. He is an expert in digital and corporate strategy, and has studied how new technologies affect what we watch, read, and hear—which you can learn more about in his book, The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change. He is a two-time recipient of Harvard Business School’s “Best Teacher” award.

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Anthony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He served as director of the School’s Leadership Initiative for 16 years and was previously the course head for FIELD, a required experiential, field-based course in the first year of the MBA program. He is co-editor of the volume Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, which is scheduled for release in 2019.

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V.G. Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair of the MBA program’s second-year elective curriculum. He has served as the course head for the first-year required accounting course for MBA students, Financial Reporting and Control, and chairs several executive education programs. His research in management accounting focuses on understanding how firms can use incentives and feedback to improve performance.

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Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on disruption, innovation, and growth strategy. He has twice been named the world’s most influential business thinker and is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Innovator’s Dilemma, which lays out his theory of disruption, and How Will You Measure Your Life? focused on achieving happiness in your personal life. His newest book, The Prosperity Paradox, will be released in January 2019.

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Prof. Michael Wheeler has taught Negotiation in Harvard Business School’s MBA program since 1993, and has served as faculty chair of the required first-year MBA program. He is the author of 11 books, the most recent of which is The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. He has long been an innovator in using the latest technology to teach negotiation and recently launched a self-assessment app, called Negotiation360.

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Joshua Margolis is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Unit Head of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. He is co-author of the book People and Profits: The Search for a Link between a Company’s Social and Financial Performance, and has won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Greenhill Award and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

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David Garvin was the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration and an influential and prolific scholar whose distinguished career at Harvard Business School spanned nearly four decades. His research focused on business and management processes, the principles of organizational learning, and the design and leadership of large, complex organizations. He authored or co-authored 10 books and 37 articles over the course of his career.

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Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the Harvard Business School initiative Managing the Future of Work. He was a founder and first employee of the global consulting firm Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. He is currently researching the evolution of the roles of CEOs and the C-suite in public companies.

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Janice Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community at Harvard Business School. She currently teaches Supply Chain Management in the MBA program and is program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s Leadership Programs. Her research focuses on speed and flexibility in manufacturing and logistics systems to respond to changing customer demand.

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Mihir Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is an award-winning teacher and leading scholar of corporate finance and tax policy. He has published more than 25 case studies, a casebook, and has testified before the US Congress on policy issues.

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