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Business Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies: Dennis Yao

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies

Juan Alcacer, James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Malcolm Baker, Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Katherine Coffman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management (Business School)
Alexandra Feldberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics
Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Scott Kominers, MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Hong Luo, James G. Dinan and Elizabeth R. Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Peter Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Miron, Director of Graduate Studies for Economics
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing (Business School)
Ariel Pakes, Thomas Professor of Economics
Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School)
Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics
Ryan Raffaelli, Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Aditya Sunderam, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Charles Chang-Yi Wang, Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Dennis Yao, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of Doctoral Programs (Business School)
Letian Zhang, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Feng Zhu, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)

The Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies is a joint committee consisting of members from both the Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Committee, chaired by Professor Dennis Yao, is composed of the following subcommittees:

Sub Committee Members


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration

Dennis Yao, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of Doctoral Programs (Business School) (Chair)
Juan Alcacer, James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management (Business School)
Hong Luo, James G. Dinan and Elizabeth R. Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing (Business School)
Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Charles Chang-Yi Wang, Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Feng Zhu, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Economics

Aditya Sunderam, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance (Business School) (Chair)
Malcolm Baker, Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Shai Bernstein, Marvin Bower Associate Professor (Business School)
Katherine Coffman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics (ex officio)
Scott Kominers, MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Jeffrey Miron, Director of Graduate Studies for Economics (ex officio)
Ariel Pakes, Thomas Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics
Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Dennis Yao, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of Doctoral Programs (Business School) (ex officio)


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Behavior

Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management (Business School) (Chair)
Alexandra Feldberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Peter Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School)
Ryan Raffaelli, Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Dennis Yao, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of Doctoral Programs (Business School) (ex officio)
Letian Zhang, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)

Additional Information

The Ph.D. programs in Business Administration, Business Economics, and Organizational Behavior are administered by the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies. These programs are intended for students who wish to enter careers in scholarship and advanced research.

For additional information, please visit https://www.hbs.edu/doctoral
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