Families in Business From Generation to Generation

Meet the Program Faculty

Harvard Business School Executive Education programs are developed and taught by a core faculty of HBS professors who are skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Faculty 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 on many levels. For more detailed biographies, click on each faculty name.

Joining the faculty for this program are several highly experienced family business facilitators who work privately with family teams throughout the week. The result is a multifaceted teaching team that exposes participants to uniquely different perspectives and challenges their thinking on multiple levels.

Core Faculty

    David L. Ager, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

    John A. Davis, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; and faculty chair of "Families in Business: From Generation to Generation" and "Managing Family Businesses for Generational Success—India."

    Deepak Malhotra, Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit.

    Dante Roscini, Senior Lecturer, L. E. Simmons Faculty Fellow. Member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit; and faculty chair of "Navigating the New Global Economy."

    "The FIB program reassured us that our problems, which we considered unique, were not insurmountable. We learned that families have disparate goals and many families face issues of family history, trust, governance, and communication, irrespective of industry, culture, or generation. Most importantly, I learned that constructively addressing our issues was critical to the success of the family and the business, despite the tremendous pressure to ignore them in the name of family harmony."
    Michelle Dorion [Senior Advisor, Kristel, S.A.], Guatemala