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.
Core Faculty
Clayton M. Christensen,
Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration. Member of the General Management Unit.
Amy J.C. Cuddy,
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit.
Amy C. Edmondson,
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. Cohead of the Technology and Operations Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Leading High-Performance Health Care Organizations."
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.
John P. Kotter,
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus.
David A. Moss,
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit.
W. Earl Sasser,
Baker Foundation Professor. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; faculty chair of "Leadership Best Practices," and "Leadership for Senior Executives"; and faculty cochair of "Achieving Breakthrough Service."
"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