FACULTY

TEACHING TEAM This Executive Education program is developed and taught by faculty from Harvard Business School and partner schools in Latin America who are distinguished academicians, skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, award-winning authors, and entrepreneurs in their respective fields. Representing various disciplines, they remain close to practice through relationships with business and industry leaders and through personal involvement as board members and consultants for top companies around the world. HBS faculty leverage their business expertise and field-based research to create new knowledge and enduring concepts that shape the practice of management. The HBS team is joined by eminent faculty members from the leading business schools and universities in Brazil.

LYNDA M. APPLEGATE is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teaching courses in entrepreneurial management and technology and innovation, and serving as Chair of the school's Entrepreneurial Management unit. Lynda currently chairs HBS' Owner-Managed Executive Programs, which include the Owner-President comprehensive and key executive programs, families in business and launching new ventures.

Lynda's current research and recent publications focus on the challenges of building new ventures and leading radical business innovation in the face of significant market, technological, and regulatory turbulence. Lynda is the recipient of numerous awards for her research and teaching, including Harvard Business School's prestigious Berol Award for Research Excellence, the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, and the Robert Greenhill award for Outstanding Contributions to HBS. In addition, her research on 21st century business models was presented at the "Best Paper" session at the Academy of Management annual meeting and as the keynote presentation at various industry and academic conferences.

She is an advisor and advisory board member for senior executives launching new business initiatives in established companies and for entrepreneurs launching independent ventures. In addition, she is on the board of Trustees of the assachusetts Technology Council, served as a member of the Technology Advisory Board for NASDAQ, and was an advisor on the launch of the World Bank's Global Development Gateway. She also served as a policy advisor on business and technology to the Comptroller General of the U.S., participated on a Blue-Ribbon Panel to define a National Research Agenda on the development of the Network Economy, and was a member of an advisory roundtable to President Clinton's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

ROHIT DESHPANDÉ, is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and Henry B. Arthur Fellow for Business Ethics at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching first year marketing, international marketing, leadership and corporate accountability, and in executive education programs. He is also coordinator for Marketing faculty recruiting and Marketing doctoral program admissions, has been faculty chair of the Strategic Marketing Management flagship executive program from the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program at HBS. Deshpandé’s primary research interest concerns the creation and implementation of customer-centric corporate culture. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research, and has also served on the boards of the Journal of International Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, and the Asian Journal of Marketing. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association and on the Executive Directors Council of the Marketing Science Institute. He is an elected member of Beta Alpha Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa and is listed in Who’s Who in America.

TOM NICHOLAS is an Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Group of the Harvard Business School. He holds a PhD in Economic History from Oxford University. Prior to joining HBS Tom taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the London School of Economics. He was also an economics consultant with the Brattle Group in San Francisco where he performed economic analysis for environmental and antitrust litigation including Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft.

His research focuses on the historical foundations of entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation in Europe, and on the organizational structure and incentives for innovation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, Britain and Japan. In a new stream of research he is studying technology and innovation. His work has been published in a range of journals including the American Economic Review, Business History, Economic History Review, Journal of Economic Geography and the Journal of Economic History.  

Tom's media experience includes the BBC and CNN and his work has been profiled in various outlets such the McKinsey Quarterly, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The New Republic and the Business Growth Summit held by The Economist.