THOMKE - Key Persons
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- Chief of Operations
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief of Operations at the Harvard Business School
- Title Chief of Operations
Andy O'Brien is the Chief of Operations at the Harvard Business School. He is in charge of all non-academic operations on the 40 acre 1.9 million square foot HBS campus. In this role Andy is responsible for fourteen different service groups ranging from capital program delivery to facilities operations & maintenance, food service, events and security. To deliver on these services in support of the School's mission Andy works closely with the School's senior leadership to guide the efforts of the 500 plus staff who work in the Operations group.
Andy has been with HBS since 2005. Prior to joining HBS he was a Sr. Vice President of a regional Construction Management firm and also served for seven years as an officer in the US Air Force. Andy has a BS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland and is a recent graduate of the HBS Advance Management Program (AMP). Andy is a strong supporter of Veterans' causes and is currently the Chairman of the Board of the New England Center and Home for Veterans.
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- Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean for External Relations
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- Executive
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Dean for Administration
- Title Executive Dean for Administration
Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $925M. She oversees the execution of the School's strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the management of areas including diversity & inclusion, external relations, financial, human resources, information technology, library, marketing and communications, operations and others.
Angela has overseen the implementation of innovations from curriculum changes to faculty initiatives and digital transformation. During her tenure, the School has expanded to include 17 global locations; opened 8 new buildings; and launched HBS Online, a groundbreaking online education platform. Angela also served as Chief Planning Officer, directing the creation and development of the campus master plan and she has been active in the School's two capital campaigns, the most recent of which surpassed its $1 billion goal.
Angela has held a succession of roles at HBS including serving on the MBA Admissions Board and directing the offices of Financial Aid, Housing, Registrar, Student Affairs, and Community Relations. She was Secretary of the Academic Performance Committee and a founder of the Community Values Initiative.
Within Harvard University, Angela serves on the University Risk Management Council, Presidential Committee on Sustainability, and Allston Planning groups. She was part of the core team that created the Harvard Innovation Labs, a cross-university initiative to foster entrepreneurship. She has twice served on the Staff Advisory Committee for the Harvard University President search.
Before joining Harvard, Angela led the introduction of new manufacturing practices at Waters Chromatography, a division of Millipore Corporation. Dedicated to leadership in education and nonprofits, she serves on the Boston Symphony Orchestra Trustees, Gettysburg College Board of Trustees, Boston Medical Center's Trust Board, Harvard Business Publishing Board of Directors, and is an evaluator on the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. She has presented various talks to students at HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She holds a BA from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
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- Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management, HBS Online
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- Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing
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- Dean
- Member of the School Leadership Team
"It is this community and its commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve our mission that gives me confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future."
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- Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society
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- Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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- Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing
Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is currently the Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business Publishing. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), and a Ph.D. in Management from Purdue University.
Das previously has been Senior Associate Dean, External Relations, Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education, Chair of the Executive Education Advanced Management Program and the Program for Leadership Development. He has also served as course head of the required First-Year Marketing course in the MBA program. Prior to that, he taught the Business Marketing Elective in the MBA program. Das has twice been selected as the Class Day faculty speaker, and has received the award for teaching excellence from the graduating HBS MBA Class on several occasions. Other awards include The Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community, the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Das has also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IITB and IIMB.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Human Resources Officer / Executive Director, HBS Initiatives
- Chief Human Resources Officer of Harvard Business School
- Title Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Director, HBS Initiatives
Ellen Mahoney is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Harvard Business School and the Executive Director, HBS Initiatives. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the School's human resources function for the 1,200 administrative staff who support the School's mission. As a member of the senior administrative management team, Ellen works closely with the School's leadership on organizational design, human resources strategic initiatives, talent management, recruitment, compensation, professional development, and labor relations. Ellen also oversees seven Initiatives that support cross-School collaboration around key topic areas including Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Leadership, and Business and Environment.
Ellen participates in the senior human resources management team at Harvard University, where she contributes as a member of a variety of committees and task forces. Ellen's previous experience at Harvard University includes running a career and professional development office that served Harvard's 12,000 administrative staff.
Ellen serves on a variety of non-profit boards including the Soldier's Field Park Children's Center Board of Directors, chairing the Belmont Youth Lacrosse program, and the Belmont After School Collaborative. Ellen holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a JD, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean for Administrative and Educational Affairs
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- Professor Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education
- Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education
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- George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking
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- Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure
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- Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School
- Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs
- Title Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs
Jana Pompadur Kierstead is the Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. She brings over 25 years of experience to this role, with more than 20 years dedicated to leadership in business education. In her role as the Executive Director, Jana leads a team of over 120 full-time professionals who manage the student experience from admissions and financial aid, to student life and career services.
In 2013, Jana was selected to lead the School's online learning initiative, Harvard Business School Online (formerly HBX). In that role she collaborated across the school to shape the initiative and lead Harvard Business School's online learning program as the landscape of e-learning continued to evolve. HBS Online aims to establish a standard of excellence in online business education by creating sustained and differentiated value for individuals and organizations that make a difference in the world. HBX advances Harvard Business School's reputation for excellence in business education and the broader business community, as well as the vast intellectual property, academic pedagogy and faculty talent of the School as a premier provider of high quality online business education. Since its inception in January 2013, HBS Online has launched twelve products on two distinct platforms and has reached over 50,000 learners from more than 170 countries.
Just prior to assuming the role of Executive Director of the MBA Program in February 2012, Jana oversaw the MBA Career and Professional Development team at HBS. Under her leadership, the group created a broad portfolio of career development, recruitment programs, and global engagement opportunities for HBS students and maintained strong recruiting relationships with hundreds of global organizations.
Before HBS, Jana worked in the private sector as a director at A. T. Kearney's media and entertainment executive search practice and held management positions with CBS Corporation and RP Companies. Jana earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. She currently serves as a Trustee for the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham and an Overseer for the Museum of Science, Boston.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Director, External Relations
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- Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing / Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community
- Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
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- Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing / Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community
- Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Baker Library
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Managing Director of Business Operations and Strategic Alliances, HBS Online
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business Publishing
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- George E. Bates Professor
- Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online and Executive Education
Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at Harvard Business School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management and capital markets. A member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1998, Professor Viceira has taught an array of Finance courses in the MBA program, Executive Education programs, and the Business Economics Ph.D. program, and has served in several leadership positions. He is currently the instructor for the Investment Management for Professional and Personal Investors course in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program, co-chair of the HBS-CFA Institute Investment Management Program for leaders of asset management firms, and co-chair of the Asset Management Conference for HBS Alums. He also serves as co-chair of the NBER-NBIM Conference on New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management.
Prof. Viceira has developed extensive research and case writing in long-term asset allocation, asset pricing, fixed income markets, household finance, international finance, the management and organization of large institutional investors, and innovation and disruption in the money management industry. He is currently studying the implications of financial globalization for long-term asset management; the impact of monetary policy on bond and equity market risks; the disruptive power of fintech in the asset management industry; the growth in index investing and in activist investing, and the impact of such growth and the interaction between the two on capital markets and corporations.
Professor Viceira is the author of multiple journal articles published in leading academic and practitioner-oriented finance journals, book chapters, Harvard Business School case studies, and the book Strategic Asset Allocation (with John Y. Campbell). His research has received several awards recognizing its contributions to the theory and practice of asset management, including the 2002 TIAA-CREF Paul Samuelson Award, the 2005 Graham and Dodd Award by the CFA Institute, the 2004 Prize for Financial Innovation of the Q-Group, Inquire Europe, and Inquire U.K., and more recently the 2014 Arthur Warga Award by the The Society for Financial Studies.
Professor Viceira holds a bachelor degree from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, and a M.A. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute in New York.
Professor Viceira is currently a member of the Asset Allocation Advisory Board at NBIM, the manager of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Norway, a Governor (Public) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Harvard University Trustee of the Charles E. Cotting Trust, a Trustee at Milton Academy. He is also a past trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation and Belmont Day School, among others. He also serves as director, external consultant, and advisor to asset management firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, international organizations, insurance companies, and not-for-profit organizations.
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- Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program
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- Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Harvard Business School Online and Executive Education
- Executive Director, HBS Online and Executive Education
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Minerva University
- Title Chief Financial Officer
Rick joined HBS in 1992 and has been the Chief Financial Officer since 2003. He has overall responsibility for the School's $925M operating budget that includes the MBA, Doctoral and Executive Education programs as well as HBS Online and the separately incorporated Harvard Business Publishing entity. Rick works directly with the HBS Dean on strategic financial planning including multi-year financial planning, capital budgeting and reserve and endowment forecasting. He manages a staff of 15 including the HBS Controller/Risk Officer and the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. Rick helps to monitor and manage the finances and compliance issues for the School's ten global offices. He is on the audit committee for Harvard Business Publishing.
Rick is also involved in university-wide financial governance. He is on the IT Capital Review Board (chaired by the University CIO) that evaluates the business, technical and financial case for major university administrative technology investments. He sits on several Executive Committees that manage the implementation of university financial systems. Rick has twice served on the university team for contract negotiations with the 5,000 member Harvard University Clerical and Technical Worker's union.
Rick is a member of the Board of Trustees of Minerva University and is a Past President of the Boston Chapter of Financial Executives International. Rick attended Yale College, where he earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lives in Lexington with his wife and has three adult children.
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- George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Managing Director of Technology, HBS Online and Executive Education
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, HBS Online
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- Member of the HBS Online Leadership Team
- Senior Director of Program Services, HBS Online
Srikant M. Datar became the 11th dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021.
During his tenure at the School, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for Executive Education, for Faculty Development, and for Faculty Recruiting.
A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, Datar received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A Chartered Accountant, he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Datar's research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking and innovative problem solving, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has published his work on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives, and performance evaluation in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. He is a co-author of the leading cost accounting textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice-Hall) and of Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press). He has authored more than 30 cases on topics ranging from Data Science at Target to Nippon Steel.
Datar has taught MBA and executive education classes in design thinking, innovation, big data, and strategy implementation. Before joining the HBS faculty he held appointments at both Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, where he received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom and the Distinguished Teaching Award, respectively.
Datar serves on the Board of Directors of ICF International, Novartis AG, Stryker Corporation, and T-Mobile US, and has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. He was honored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as the Public Company Director for 2020. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and presented his research to academic and executives audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
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- Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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- Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration / Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Division of Research and Faculty Development