Governing for Nonprofit Excellence Critical Issues for Board Leadership

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.

Faculty for the program will be drawn from the following group:

Core Faculty

    Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor of Business Administration. Faculty chair of "Governing for Nonprofit Excellence."

    Allen S. Grossman, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice. Member of the General Management Unit; faculty cochair of the "Public Education Leadership Program" and "Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations."

    Robert Steven Kaplan, Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. Senior Associate Dean for External Relations; and member of the Organizational Behavior Unit.

    Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management Teaching Programs, Harvard Kennedy School. Member of the General Management Unit; cochair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative; and faculty chair of "Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management."

    F. Warren McFarlan, Baker Foundation Professor; Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. Member of the General Management Unit.

    Kathleen L. McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration. Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Development; Chair of the Doctoral Programs; and member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit.

    William Ryan, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. Research Fellow for the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School.

    Howard H. Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.

    "For a decade I dreamed of studying at Harvard—and it was an amazing, eye-opening opportunity that exceeded my expectations. During this one-week session I learned and applied principles that would have taken me much longer to acquire, understand, and implement while volunteering, working, or during my formal schooling. I now feel more confident and competent to effectively address my duties as the newly appointed chair of a rapidly growing multimillion-dollar facility."
    David F. Pack, Ph.D. [Chairperson, Board of Trustees], The Living Planet Aquarium, U.S.

    "There is a huge level of energy around the people who are doing absolutely amazing things and allocating huge amounts of resources. These professionals are living out their passion to change the world, and you have the opportunity to interact with them on a very intimate level. I would encourage anyone to take the time, find the money, and meet the people who are actually making things happen."
    Sig Hutchinson [Vice Chair & Chair-Elect], Triangle Land Conservancy, U.S.