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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)
Shai Bernstein, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Alison W. Brooks, O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration
Katherine Coffman, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration; Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow (Business School)
Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management (Business School)
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics
Samuel Hanson, William L. White Professor of Business Administration
Jonas Heese, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration
Rakesh Khurana, Professor of Sociology and Danoff Dean of Harvard College
Robin S. Lee, Professor of Economics
Peter Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Miron, Director of Graduate Studies for Economics
Toni Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing (Business School)
David Pedulla, Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School)
Ryan L. Raffaelli, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Jesse M. Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration (FAS and Business School)
Aditya Sunderam, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance (Business School)
Charles C. Y. Wang, Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Ashley Whillans, Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Andy Wu, Associate Professor of Business Administration
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, MBA Class of 1958 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)
Jonas Heese, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration
Rakesh Khurana, Professor of Sociology and Danoff Dean of Harvard College
Toni Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing (Business School)
Charles C. Y. Wang, Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Andy Wu, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 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)
Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Katherine Coffman, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics (ex officio)
Samuel Hanson, William L. White Professor of Business Administration
Robin S. Lee, Professor of Economics
Jeffrey Miron, Director of Graduate Studies for Economics (ex officio)
Jesse M. Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration (FAS and 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)
Alison Wood Brooks, O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration
Peter Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology
David Pedulla, Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School)
Ryan Raffaelli, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Ashley Victoria Whillans, Associate 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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