Launching New Ventures Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

The information below is based on the program offered in 2012, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for the 2013 course.
Thank you for your interest in this program. The April 2011 session is filled to capacity, and additional applications will not be accepted. You may wish to consider applying to the February 2012 session.

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.

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.