Owner/President Management Program

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.

Lynda M. Applegate, Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, member of the General Management Unit; faculty chair of "Owner/President Management," "Building Businesses in Turbulent Times: Leading Privately Held Companies," "Key Executives Program," and "Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners."

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 and Henry B. Arthur Fellow for Business Ethics. Member of the Marketing Unit.

Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Member of the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units; faculty chair of "Private Equity and Venture Capital" and faculty cochair of "Private Equity and Venture Capital – Asia."

Deepak Malhotra, Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit.

Cynthia A. Montgomery, Timken Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Strategy Unit.

V.G. Narayanan, Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Accounting and Management Unit; and faculty chair of "Compensation Committees: New Challenges, New Solutions."

Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration. Chair of the European Research Initiative; member of the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit; and faculty cochair of the "Global Energy Seminar."