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Harvard Business School Online's annual Connext conference will be held virtually on Friday, May 7, 2021. This year’s event will feature a full day of programming surrounding the theme “Navigating the Digital Frontier.”
Attendees will have a chance to participate in faculty-led sessions, hear from HBS Online leadership, and network with fellow learners!
Debora Spar is the Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School Online and the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where she teaches the first-year Strategy course. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between technological change and broader social structures. Spar tackles some of these issues in her forthcoming book, "Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny."
Srikant Datar
Harvard Business School
Srikant M. Datar became the 11th dean of Harvard Business School on January 1, 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.
Panelists
Nancy Koehn
Harvard Business School
James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration
Nancy Koehn is a historian and the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Koehn’s research focuses on courageous leadership and how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Her latest book, "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times," spotlights how five of history’s greatest leaders managed crises and what you can learn from their experience.
Tsedal Neeley
Harvard Business School
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile. Her forthcoming book, "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere," provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations.
Forest Reinhardt
Harvard Business School
Forest Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and teaches HBS Online's Global Business course. He's the head of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and serves as faculty chair of the School’s Asia-Pacific Research Center and chair of HBS Executive Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Reinhardt is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, which analyzes problems of environmental and natural resource management.
Rebecca Henderson
Harvard University
Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as co-chair of the Harvard University Climate Change Task Force, as well as on the board of several public companies. She teaches HBS Online's Sustainable Business Strategy course, and her Reimagining Capitalism course is one of the most popular electives in the Harvard Business School MBA Program.
Michael Wheeler
Harvard Business School
Michael Wheeler has taught Negotiation in Harvard Business School’s MBA program since 1993 and served as faculty chair of the required first-year MBA program. He teaches HBS Online's Negotiation Mastery course and is the author of 11 books, the most recent of which is The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. He has long been an innovator in using the latest technology to teach negotiation and recently launched a self-assessment app, called Negotiation360.
Yael Grushka-Cockayne
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Yael Grushka-Cockayne is the Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair in Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and was formerly a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Business Administration. She teaches HBS Online's Data Science for Business course. Her research and teaching activities focus on data science, forecasting, project management, and behavioral decision-making. Her research is published in numerous academic and professional journals, and she is a regular speaker at international conferences in the areas of decision analysis, project management, and management science. In 2014, Grushka-Cockayne was named one of "21 Thought-Leader Professors" in Data Science.
Sunil Gupta
Harvard Business School
Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the executive program on Driving Digital Strategy at Harvard Business School. He served as the head of the Marketing Unit from 2008-2013 and was the Chair of the General Management Program from 2013-2019. Gupta's current research is in the area of digital technology and its impact on consumer behavior and firm strategy. The primary goal of his research is to understand how digital technology is disrupting existing industries and how incumbents should transform their businesses in this new environment. His book on this topic, "Driving Digital Strategy," was published by Harvard Business Review Press in August 2018.
Jessica Altieri
Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts
Jessica Altieri is a Certified Wine and Water Sommelier and the Brand Ambassador-Director of Beverage, Americas for Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts. Jessica has been featured in Travel+Leisure, Barron’s-Penta, Bustle, Wine Enthusiast and has appeared on CNBC, ABC, WGN, and ESPN Radio. Jessica has educated audiences around the world with a journey to discover the fascinating history and sensory elements of the world’s finest wines and mineral waters—allowing you to explore the creative experience of drinking the right mineral water, in the context of food, wine, occasion, and wellness. Jessica is uniquely positioned to lay out and inspire people to experience the worlds’ best mineral water in the same way wine enthusiasts savor great wine.
Tina Guo
Grammy- and Brit-nominated musician Tina Guo has established an international career as a virtuoso acoustic/electric cellist, composer, and entrepreneur. One of the most recorded solo cellists of all time, she can be heard on hundreds of blockbuster films, television, and game soundtracks. Tina recently completed work on the films "Dune" and "Top Gun: Maverick," and has just finished a tour with composer Hans Zimmer.
Patrick Mullane is the Executive Director of Harvard Business School Online. He brings over 20 years of management experience across several industries to the position. As Executive Director, he's responsible for managing HBS Online's growth, expansion in global markets, and long-term success. HBS Online leverages Harvard Business School's reputation for excellence and impact in business education and the broader business community, as well as the vast intellectual property, academic pedagogy, and faculty talent of the School to be the premier provider of high-quality digital business education.
