Meet the Program Faculty
Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, Managing Healthcare Delivery 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-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.
Richard M.J. Bohmer,
Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit; member of the Healthcare Initiative; faculty chair of "Managing Healthcare Delivery" and faculty cochair of "Leading High-Performance Healthcare Organizations."
James J. Dowd, Jr.,
Senior Fellow, Managing Director, Executive Education.
Amy C. Edmondson,
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. Cohead of the Technology and Operations Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Leading High-Performance Healthcare Organizations."
Frances X. Frei,
UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Chair, MBA required curriculum; member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Achieving Breakthrough Service."
William W. George,
Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; and faculty chair of "Authentic Leadership Development."
Richard G. Hamermesh,
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice. Faculty cochair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative; and member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
Regina E. Herzlinger,
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Member of the General Management Unit.
Robert F. Higgins,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
Robert S. Huckman,
Associate Professor of Business Administration. Faculty cochair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative; and member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit.
V.G. Narayanan,
Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration. Head of the Accounting and Management Unit; and faculty chair of "Compensation Committees: New Challenges, New Solutions."
Michael E. Porter,
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Member of the Strategy Unit; and director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Faculty cochair of "Value Measurement for Health Care."
V. Kasturi Rangan,
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. Cochair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative; member of the Marketing Unit; faculty chair of "Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value" and faculty cochair of "Building Businesses in Emerging Markets."
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."
Willy C. Shih,
Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Managing Breakthroughs: From Science to Enterprise."
Robert L. Simons,
Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Accounting and Management Unit; and faculty cochair of "Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy."
Anita L. Tucker,
Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit.
Michael A. Wheeler,
MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit; and faculty cochair of "Strategic Negotiations: Dealmaking for the Long Term."
Guest Faculty Has Included:
Robert D. Austin, Professor, Copenhagen Business School. Faculty cochair of "Delivering Information Services."
Susan M. Grant, MS, RN, CNAA, BC, Interim Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer of Emory Healthcare.
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), Chief Executive Officer of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing emergency physician.
Gary B. Kaplan, MD, Director, Mental Health Service of VA Boston Healthcare System; Chief, Psychiatry Service of VA Boston Healthcare System; and Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Psychology at Boston University School of Medicine.
Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSC, Network President of Partners Healthcare System; Chief Executive Officer of Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.; and a practicing internist and cardiologist.
Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSC, Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and a practicing physician.
Luciano Ravera, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning at Humanitas Mirasole SpA.
Peter L. Slavin, MD, President of Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
"I would highly recommend this program to all senior-level executives of care delivery organizations for the opportunities it provides in connecting with other leaders of care delivery—and for the breadth and depth of knowledge it imparts through effective classroom and group-based learning methods. No other executive program provides better value in understanding health care delivery management."
Dr. Mohanraj Dhanagopal [Health Data Analyst], Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar