April 8, 2020

People

At its core, the Digital Initiative is a community of talented and dedicated people invested in understanding and shaping digital transformation. Get to know the DI and join the conversation!

Team

  1. David Homa

    David Homa

    DI director, tech and business world bridge-builder, pursuer of Nordic skiing and Scottish fiddle music.

  2. Tanya Flint

    Tanya Flint

    DI associate director of technology, agile certified, finder of application shortcuts, always interested in a good tech meet-up.

  3. Elizabeth Sarley

    Elizabeth Sarley

    DI assistant director of communications, loves a good story, fueled by social impact work, knows New England is what she wants, but California is who she is.

  4. Jamie Thomas

    Jamie Thomas

    DI community manager, teacher, rock-star mom, searches for the humanity in technology.

Faculty

  1. Karim Lakhani

    Karim Lakhani

    Karim is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty co-founder of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, as well as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.

  2. Shane Greenstein

    Shane Greenstein

    Shane is the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and co-chair of the HBS Digital Initiative.

  3. Marco Iansiti

    Marco Iansiti

    Marco is the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School.

  4. Eva Ascarza

    Eva Ascarza

    Eva is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School.

  5. Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

  6. Dan Nocera

    Dan Nocera

    Dan is a leading researcher in renewable energy and professor at Harvard University.

  7. Mike Toffel

    Mike Toffel

    Mike is a professor of environmental management and faculty chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative.

  8. Francesca Dominici

    Francesca Dominici

    Francesca is a data scientist whose pioneering scientific contributions have advanced public health research around the globe.

  9. Rebecca Henderson

    Rebecca Henderson

    Rebecca concentrates on leadership, sustainability, innovation, and systemic change as a professor at Harvard Business School.

  10. Hanspeter Pfister

    Hanspeter Pfister

    Hanspeter is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, researching visual computing.

  11. Tsedal Neeley

    Tsedal Neeley

    Tsedal is a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.

  12. Yael Grushka-Cockayne

    Yael Grushka-Cockayne

    Yael is a visiting associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.

  13. Shunyuan Zhang

    Shunyuan Zhang

    Shunyuan Zhang is assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.

  14. Amit Goldenberg

    Amit Goldenberg

    Amit is an assistant professor in the negotiation, organizations & markets (NOM) unit at Harvard Business School and a psychologist by training.

  15. Lauren Cohen

    Lauren Cohen

    Lauren is the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the finance and entrepreneurial management units and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

  16. Luis Viceira

    Luis Viceira

    Luis is the George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School.

  17. Amy Edmondson

    Amy Edmondson

    Amy is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.

  18. Matthew Weinzierl

    Matthew Weinzierl

    Matt is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the business, government, and international economy unit at Harvard Business School.

  19. Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle

    Frank is an assistant professor in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School.

  20. Ethan Bernstein

    Ethan Bernstein

    Ethan is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. He also teaches the Developing Yourself as a Leader course at HBS Online.

  21. Ariel Dora Stern

    Ariel Dora Stern

    Ariel is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, focused on the management of innovation in health care.

  22. Ramana Nanda

    Ramana Nanda

    Ramana is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches Entrepreneurial Finance in the MBA program and in executive education offerings.

  23. Jill Avery

    Jill Avery

    Jill is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School and branding expert.

  24. John Macomber

    John Macomber

    John is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School.

  25. Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute (SAI).

  26. Kathleen McGinn

    Kathleen McGinn

    Kathleen is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  27. Janice Hammond

    Janice Hammond

    Jan is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture at Community at Harvard Business School.

  28. Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  29. Michael Luca

    Michael Luca

    Michael is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  30. Michael Norton

    Michael Norton

    Michael is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group.

  31. Kris Ferreira

    Kris Ferreira

    Kris is an assistant professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

  32. Thomas Eisenmann

    Thomas Eisenmann

    Thomas is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

  33. David Yoffie

    David Yoffie

    David is the Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  34. Bharat Anand

    Bharat Anand

    Bharat is a professor in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School, senior associate dean and faculty chair of the HBS Online, and serves on the HarvardX Faculty Committee.

  35. Jeffrey Rayport

    Jeffrey Rayport

    Jeffrey is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management unit.

  36. Chiara Farronato

    Chiara Farronato

    Chiara is an assistant professor of business administration in the technology and operations management unit at Harvard Business School.

  37. Jeff Bussgang

    Jeff Bussgang

    Jeff is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a general partner at Flybridge Capital.

  38. Jeffrey Polzer

    Jeffrey Polzer

    Jeff is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the organizational behavior unit at Harvard Business School.

  39. Christopher Malloy

    Christopher Malloy

    Christopher is a Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

  40. Andy Wu

    Andy Wu

    Andy is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School.

  41. Mitch Weiss

    Mitch Weiss

    Mitch is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

  42. Michael Tushman

    Michael Tushman

    Michael is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and chair of the program for leadership development at Harvard Business School.

  43. Scott Duke Kominers

    Scott Duke Kominers

    Scott is an MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics.

  44. Mark Roberge

    Mark Roberge

    Mark is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.

  45. Ryan Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli

    Ryan is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit and the Richard Hodgson Strategy & Technology Fellow at the Harvard Business School.

  46. Felix Oberholzer-Gee

    Felix Oberholzer-Gee

    Felix is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the strategy unit.

  47. Henry McGee

    Henry McGee

    Henry is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School.

  48. Warren McFarlan

    Warren McFarlan

    Warren is the Baker Foundation Professor and Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

  49. Alan MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack

    Alan is the MBA class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  50. Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School.

  51. Paul Gompers

    Paul Gompers

    Paul is the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  52. John Jong-Hyun Kim

    John Jong-Hyun Kim

    John J-H is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the CEO of The District Management Council.

  53. Ayelet Israeli

    Ayelet Israeli

    Ayelet is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School.

  54. Linda Hill

    Linda Hill

    Linda is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative.

  55. Bob Higgins

    Bob Higgins

    Bob is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

  56. Regina Herzlinger

    Regina Herzlinger

    Regina is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

  57. Sunil Gupta

    Sunil Gupta

    Sunil is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

  58. Anita Elberse

    Anita Elberse

    Anita is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  59. John Deighton

    John Deighton

    John is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  60. Srikant Datar

    Srikant Datar

    Srikant is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and serves as the Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Labs.

  61. James Cash

    James Cash

    James is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School.

  62. Carliss Baldwin

    Carliss Baldwin

    Carliss is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

  63. Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School and teaches FIELD Foundations and FIELD Global Immersion in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program.

  64. Daniel P. Gross

    Daniel P. Gross

    Dan is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School and prior to that he was a postdoctoral fellow at HBS and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

  65. Robin Ely

    Robin Ely

    Robin is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative.

  66. Boris Groysberg

    Boris Groysberg

    Boris is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and founded the Women on Boards Executive Education course.

  67. Julia Austin

    Julia Austin

    Julia is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.

  68. Lynda Applegate

    Lynda Applegate

    Lynda is the Baker Foundation Professor and Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita at Harvard Business School.

  69. Allison Mnookin

    Allison Mnookin

    Allison is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School and currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum

  70. Bill Sahlman

    Bill Sahlman

    Bill is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  71. Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. He teaches The Founders’ Journey and the Entrepreneurial Manager as well as the HBS Online course Scaling Technology Ventures.

  72. Hong Luo

    Hong Luo

    Hong is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School.

  73. Joshua Lev Krieger

    Joshua Lev Krieger

    Josh is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business and is teaching The Entrepreneurial Manager to first-year MBA students.

  74. Christopher Stanton

    Christopher Stanton

    Christopher is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School and is also affiliated with The Center for Economic Policy Research and The National Bureau of Economic Research.

  75. Antonio Moreno

    Antonio Moreno

    Toni is the Sicupira Family Associate Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, teaching empirical technology and operations management at Harvard Business School.

  76. Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and is currently the course-head for the HBS required course Financial Reporting and Control.

Student Advisory Board

  1. Hyunjin Kim

    Hyunjin Kim

    Hyunjin is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School.

  2. Nataliya Langburd Wright

    Nataliya Langburd Wright

    Nataliya is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School.

  3. Miguel Diaz Moreno

    Miguel Diaz Moreno

    Miguel (MBA ’19) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  4. Tyler Simpson

    Tyler Simpson

    Tyler (MBA ’20) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Board.

  5. Sakshi Agarwal

    Sakshi Agarwal

    Sakshi (MBA ’19) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  6. Phoebe Caldwell

    Phoebe Caldwell

    Phoebe (MBA ’19) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  7. Chloe Cao

    Chloe Cao

    Chloe (MBA ’19) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  8. Pamela Chan

    Pamela Chan

    Pamela (MBA ’20) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  9. John Bracaglia

    John Bracaglia

    John (MBA ’20) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  10. Ayse Baybars

    Ayse Baybars

    Ayse (MBA ’18) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  11. Nikolas Iubel

    Nikolas Iubel

    Nikolas (MBA ’18) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  12. Emma Radford

    Emma Radford

    Emma Radford (MBA ’18) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  13. Elizabeth Haviland

    Elizabeth Haviland

    Elizabeth Haviland (MBA ’18) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  14. Andrea Coravos

    Andrea Coravos

    Andrea (MBA ’17) is CEO of Elektra Labs.

  15. Alice Yen

    Alice Yen

    Alice (MBA ’17) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  16. Libby Leffler Hoaglin

    Libby Leffler Hoaglin

    Libby (MBA ’17) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board. 

  17. Clay Cook

    Clay Cook

    Clay (MBA ’19) was a member of the Digital Initiative Student Advisory Board.

  18. Anshul Bhagi

    Anshul Bhagi

    Anshul (MBA ’17) is the co-founder of Proffer, and is the co-founder of Code@HBS.

Advisors

  1. David Parkes

    David Parkes

    David is the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, leading research at the intersection of economics and computer science.

  2. Catherine Tucker

    Catherine Tucker

    Catherine is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and a professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

  3. James Mickens

    James Mickens

    James is a computer scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  4. Latanya Sweeney

    Latanya Sweeney

    Latanya is a Professor of Government and Technology in Residence at Harvard University, she is a computer scientist working with world-renowned government scholars.

  5. Christopher Bavitz

    Christopher Bavitz

    Chris is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, managing director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center. 

  6. Doug Grissom

    Doug Grissom

    Doug is a Managing Director and Head of Madison Dearborn Partners’ Business & Government Software and Services team.

  7. Trey Herr

    Trey Herr

    Trey is a postdoctoral fellow with the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  8. Susan Athey

    Susan Athey

    Susan a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  9. David Eaves

    David Eaves

    David is a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and faculty director of digital HKS.

  10. Lauren Lockwood

    Lauren Lockwood

    Lauren (MBA ’14) is the founder and principal at Bloom Government Digital Services

  11. Jason Preston

    Jason Preston

    Jason is co-Founder of Dent the Future and was an Affiliate at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

  12. Albert Yu-Min Lin

    Albert Yu-Min Lin

    Albert is a research scientist at the UC San Diego, an Explorer of the National Geographic Society, and co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at STEAM Engine Inc.

  13. Michelle Zatlyn

    Michelle Zatlyn

    Michelle is the co-founder of CloudFlare and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.

  14. Nicole Wong

    Nicole Wong

    Nicole is the former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, focusing on internet, privacy and innovation policy.

  15. John Winsor

    John Winsor

    John is he executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and CEO of Open Assembly.

  16. David Weinberger

    David Weinberger

    David is a senior researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and an advisor at the Digital Initiative.

  17. Ryan Servatius

    Ryan Servatius

    Ryan is currently Vice President of Business Operations and Strategy at salesforce.com.

  18. Greg Richards

    Greg Richards

    Greg is the CEO of Keystone, a strategy and economics consulting firm.

  19. Harper Reed

    Harper Reed

    Harper is an hacker/engineer who builds paradigm-shifting tech and leads others to do the same and is the CTO at Threadless.com.

  20. Dele Olojede

    Dele Olojede

    Dele is a writer, publisher, digital media enthusiast and investor.

  21. Dave Munichiello

    Dave Munichiello

    Dave is a Partner at Google Ventures, where he invests in rockstar teams who dream big and leverage new technologies to make the world better.

  22. Hilary Mason

    Hilary Mason

    Hilary is general manager of machine learning at Cloudera.

  23. Michael Maness

    Michael Maness

    Michael is the co-founder of Subculture, and was the first Innovator in Residence for the HBS Digital Initiative. .

  24. Colin Maclay

    Colin Maclay

    Colin is a professor and executive director USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and was the founding director of the HBS Digital Initiative.

  25. Julia LeStage

    Julia LeStage

    Julia is the Founder and CEO of Weathermob, Inc., a global crowdsourced weather company.

  26. Tom Hulme

    Tom Hulme

    Tom is presently General Partner at Google Ventures, Senior Advisor to IDEO and Director and Founder of OpenIDEO and OIEngine.

  27. Mina Hsiang

    Mina Hsiang

    Mina is Executive Director for Digital Service at the Department of Health and Human Services.

  28. Perry Hewitt

    Perry Hewitt

    Perry works at the intersection of marketing and digital strategy, and is passionate about leading high-performing teams to drive sustainable change and impact.

  29. Kate Crawford

    Kate Crawford

    Kate is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute, and an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales.

  30. Robin Chase

    Robin Chase

    Robin is a transportation entrepreneur, and is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar.

  31. Janet Balis

    Janet Balis

    Janet is a Partner, Global Advisory Leader for Media & Entertainment at Betaworks, a studio of digital companies in New York City.

  32. Andrei Hagiu

    Andrei Hagiu

    Andrei is a visiting associate professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

  33. Theresa Diederich

    Theresa Diederich

    Theresa is a content strategist, digital storyteller, and expert in travel influencers and destination effects.

  34. Sarah Figge Hussain

    Sarah Figge Hussain

    Sarah works at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

  35. Adrienne Debigare

    Adrienne Debigare

    Adrienne specializes in the development and maintenance of online communities. She now serves as a consult for Linear Synergy Designs.

  36. Caroline Fay

    Caroline Fay

    Caroline is the co-founder of Skillist.

  37. Matt Tucker

    Matt Tucker

    Matt is the product/platform designer for Skillist, a startup that aims to connect untapped talent to in-demand jobs.