Meet the Program Faculty
Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, the Agribusiness Seminar is developed and taught by a core faculty of HBS professors. Our faculty are widely recognized for being skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors.
Through publishing, consulting, and teaching, they leverage their business expertise and field-based research to create new knowledge and enduring concepts that shape the practice of management. The result is a teaching team that exposes participants to multiple perspectives, challenging their thinking and encouraging new practices that result in superior business leadership.
José B. Alvarez,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Marketing Unit; and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover.
David E. Bell,
George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business. Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Planning and Recruiting; and member of the Marketing Unit. Faculty chair of the "Agribusiness Seminar."
Ray A. Goldberg,
George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus.
Boris Groysberg,
Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; faculty chair of "Driving Performance Through Talent Management"; and faculty cochair of "Leadership in Financial Organizations."
Mary L. Shelman,
Director, Agribusiness Program. President of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) and former chairman of the board of RiceTec, Inc.
"The Agribusiness Seminar provides a wonderful opportunity to rethink the day-to-day way of doing business. From the faculty and my peers, I learned about different viewpoints in the value chain and new strategies for approaching issues. As a result, I can better meet my customers' needs. The relationships that I formed have been invaluable professionally and personally."
Vonnie Estes [New Venture Manager, Biofuels], DuPont Biofuels, U.S.