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Business Studies—Chairs and Directors

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

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies

Eva Ascarza, Professor (Business School)
Shai B. Bernstein, MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Katherine Coffman, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Chiara Farronato, Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Samuel Hanson, William L. White Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Jonas Heese, Professor (Business School)
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor (Business School)
Rakesh Khurana, Professor of Sociology
Robin S. Lee, Professor of Economics
Jeffrey A. Miron, Senior Lecturer on Economics
Toni Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Michael I. Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
David Pedulla, Professor of Sociology (on leave 2025-2026)
Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School)
Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Jesse M. Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration
Aditya Sunderam, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance (Business School)
Charles C. Wang, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Shunyuan Zhang, Associate Professor (Business School)
Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Tiona W. Zuzul, Associate Professor (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)
Eva Ascarza, Professor (Business School)
Jonas Heese, Professor (Business School)
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor (Business School)
Rakesh Khurana, Professor of Sociology
Toni Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Charles Chang-Yi Wang, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Shunyuan Zhang, Associate Professor (Business School)
Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Tiona White Zuzul, Associate Professor (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 Bernstein, MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Katherine Coffman, Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Chiara Farronato, Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Samuel Hanson, William L. White Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Robin S. Lee, Professor of Economics
Jeffrey Miron, Director of Graduate Studies for Economics (ex officio)
Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics
Jesse M. Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration
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

Jeffrey Polzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management (Business School) (Chair)
Michael Irwin Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
David Pedulla, Professor of Sociology (ex officio)
Lakshmi Ramarajan, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Dennis Yao, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of Doctoral Programs (Business School) (ex officio)

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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