Meet the Program Faculty
Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, Leadership Best Practices 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 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.
Thomas J. DeLong,
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; course head for the required MBA course on Leadership and Organizational Behavior; and faculty chair of "Managing and Transforming Professional Service Firms—India."
Rebecca M. Henderson,
John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Member of the General Management and Strategy Units; and faculty chair of the Business and Environment Initiative.
Linda A. Hill,
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration. Faculty cochair of the HBS Leadership Initiative; member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; and faculty chair of the "High Potentials Leadership Program" and "Leading with Impact: Staying on the Fast Track."
John P. Kotter,
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus.
Felix Oberholzer-Gee,
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Strategy Unit; faculty chair of "Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage" and faculty cochair of "Intellectual Property and Business Strategy," "Senior Executive Program for China," and "Effective Strategies for Media Companies."
Leslie A. Perlow,
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit.
W. Earl Sasser,
Baker Foundation Professor. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; faculty chair of "Leadership Best Practices," "Leadership for Senior Executives," and the "Program for Leadership Development."
"The faculty was a brilliantly selected group of academics and executives with real-world experience. In some segments, they took us on emotional, personal journeys—we didn't expect this and were affected profoundly by the faculty's authenticity and their courage in daring to go there."
David Robertson [Sector Leader], IBM, Australia