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March 7, 2021
Harvard Business School Announces Spring 2021 Cohort of Executive Fellows.
• The program engages practitioners to enhance teaching and learning.
BOSTON, March 6, 2021 — Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni. They all partner with an HBS faculty member to bring their business experience into the MBA program and the School.
The fellows contribute to the School by working with faculty and MBA students on curricular and co-curricular activities, including co-teaching course sessions in the elective curriculum, offering career counseling and development coaching, co-leading Short Intensive Programs, and delivering workshop sessions. They also collaborate with faculty on HBS Online and Executive Education and case development and other research projects. Fellow appointments range from a few months to one year.
“Our inaugural cohort of Executive Fellows provided tremendous insights to our students and shared learnings gained through years of extensive business practice,” says Len Schlesinger, chair of the Executive Fellows Program. “This cohort is equally as impressive and committed to contributing to the HBS community and the School’s mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world.”
The Spring 2021 cohort of Executive Fellows includes:
• Rob Biederman (MBA 2014)
Biederman is the co-founder and chairman of Catalant Technologies. Catalant Technologies enables companies to get from strategy to execution faster. He is also co-author of Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a Flexible Workforce, which lays out a vision and path for a new relationship between global companies and talent.
Biederman is an Executive Fellow in the Entrepreneurial Management unit, co-teaching with Professor Jeffrey Rayport the Scaling Technology Ventures course on funding and accelerating disruptive internet companies’ growth.
• Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992)
Chertavian serves on the board of advisors for HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) and is a former member of the World Economic Forum’s Youth Unemployment Council.
As an Executive Fellow with HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), Chertavian works with several students and faculty members on various projects.
• Ãlvaro RodrÃguez Arregui (MBA 1995)
Arregui is the co-founder and managing partner of IGNIA. He is the former chairman of the board of Compartamos Banco (Gentera), Latin America’s largest microfinance institution, and formerly served as chairman of the board of ACCION International. Ãlvaro also served as CFO of Vitro; CEO of Farmacias Benavides and CFO of Grupo Elektra. Ãlvaro is a board member of Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
As an Executive Fellow, Arregui is working with HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) as a panelist this spring in Financial Inclusion and Systems Change sessions.
• Daniel Kahn and Leo Tsao
Kahn is the chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ), criminal division, fraud section. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Tsao is the principal deputy chief of the money laundering and asset recovery section of the criminal division at the Department of Justice.
As Executive Fellows, Kahn and Tsao are working with Professor Eugene Soltes on the MBA Program Elective Curriculum course, Managing Risk and Uncertainty.
• Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992)
Jacimovic is a seasoned investor with over 25 years of venture, private equity, and public investing and operating experience. He is the founder of Continuum Capital Partners, specializing in a crossover investment strategy, targeting both venture investments in startups and public companies’ assets. Since beginning his venture career in 1996, he has invested in and helped build more than 30 technology companies. In addition to serving on many public and private boards, Vladimir served on Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, and McKinsey & Company.
As an Executive Fellow, Jacimovic is working with Professor Karim Lakhani on AI-first businesses’ issues. He will also engage with students and other HBS faculty members on various projects related to digital transformation.
• Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
El Kaliouby’s life work is about humanizing technology before it dehumanizes us. She is a scientist, entrepreneur, author, and AI (Artificial intelligence) thought leader on a mission to bring emotional intelligence to the digital world. She is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spinoff credited with creating artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI (Artificial intelligence). Her memoir, Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, follows her journey, growing up in the Middle East and moving to the US to become an entrepreneur.
As an Executive Fellow, el Kaliouby works with Professor Lakhani on various AI (Artificial intelligence) and analytics projects. She will engage with both MBA and Doctoral students.
Source: Harvard Business School
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