Building Businesses in Emerging Markets

The information below is based on the program offered in 2012, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for the 2013 course.

Meet the Program Faculty

Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, Building Businesses in Emerging Markets is developed and taught by a core faculty of HBS professors. Our faculty members are widely recognized as 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. For more detailed biographies, click on each faculty name.

Rawi Abdelal, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration. Faculty associate of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit; member of the executive committee of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; and faculty cochair of the "Global Energy Seminar."

Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the General Management Unit.

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor. Member of the Strategy Unit; chair of HBS India activities; and faculty chair of "Building a Global Enterprise in India.”

Aldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of Business Administration and Marvin Bower Fellow. Member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit.

Krishna G. Palepu, Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration. Senior Associate Dean for International Development; member of the Accounting and Management Unit and the General Management Unit; faculty chair of "Global CEO Program for China"; and faculty cochair of "Building Businesses in Emerging Markets."

V. Kasturi Rangan, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. Cochair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative; member of the Marketing Unit; faculty chair of "Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value" and faculty cochair of "Building Businesses in Emerging Markets."