Meet the Program Faculty
Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, Launching New Ventures is developed and taught by a core faculty of HBS professors. Our faculty are widely recognized for being 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
Shikhar Ghosh,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and Mel Turkman Faculty Fellow. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
William R. Kerr,
Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; and faculty chair of "Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners."
Ramana Nanda,
Assistant Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
James M. Sharpe,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
Noam T. Wasserman,
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Tukman Faculty Fellow. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.