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.
Core Faculty
Rawi Abdelal,
Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration. Chair, MBA Required Curriculum; 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; and faculty cochair of "Business Innovations in Global Health Care."
Tarun Khanna,
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor. Member of the Strategy Unit; and faculty chair of "Building a Global Enterprise in India."
Aldo Musacchio,
Assoicate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit (BGIE) and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Krishna G. Palepu,
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, Senior Advisor to Harvard's President on Global Strategy. Member of the Accounting and Management and the General Management Units; faculty chair of the "Global CEO Program for China" and "Building Businesses in Emerging Markets"; and faculty cochair of "Leading a Global Enterprise."
V. Kasturi Rangan,
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing; cochair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative; member of the Marketing Unit; faculty chair of "Business-to-Business Marketing Strategies" and "Corporate Social Responsibility"; and faculty cochair of "Building Businesses in Emerging Markets." He is the author of "Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy: Three Disciplines of Channel Management."