Meet the Program Faculty
Private Equity and Venture Capital is developed and taught by a core faculty of Harvard Business School professors who are widely recognized as authorities in their fields, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors.
Through publishing, consulting, and teaching, HBS faculty leverage their industry expertise and field-based research to create new knowledge and enduring concepts that shape the practices of finance and investing—and are often taught at other leading business schools worldwide. The result is a teaching team that exposes participants to multiple perspectives on private equity and venture capital, challenging their thinking and encouraging new practices that result in superior business leadership. For more detailed biographies, click on each faculty name.
Paul A. Gompers,
Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units.
G. Felda Hardymon,
MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.
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."
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf,
Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.