Meet the Program Faculty
Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, OPM 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.
John A. Davis,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; and faculty chair of "Families in Business: From Generation to Generation."
Rohit Deshpandé,
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing. Member of the Marketing Unit; faculty chair of the "Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning" and "Leadership and Corporate Accountability—India."
Robert Steven Kaplan,
Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Organizational Behavior 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."
Josh Lerner,
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Member of the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units; faculty chair of "Owner/President Management" and "Private Equity and Venture Capital."
Deepak Malhotra,
Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit.
Forest L. Reinhardt,
John D. Black Professor of Business Administration. Faculty chair of the European Research Initiative; member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit; faculty cochair of the "Global Energy Seminar"; and faculty chair of the "Agribusiness Seminar: An Asian Offering."
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."
Scott A. Snook,
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit.
David B. Yoffie,
Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration. Senior Associate Dean; Chair, Executive Education; and member of the Strategy Unit.
"One of the most energizing parts of the program is the amazing group of people that I have become friends with from all over the world. Since I graduated from OPM, our globe has become much smaller. I can call on any one of my fellow graduates in over 20 countries, and they will be there for me—as I would be for them."
Julie Levi [President], Progressive Promotions, Inc., U.S.