This is a list of notable alumni of Harvard Business School, the business school of Harvard University.
MBA
- Bill Ackman, 1992 â hedge fund manager
- Geeta Aiyer, 1985 â Indian founder and president of Boston Common Asset Management
- Paul V. Applegarth, 1974 â first CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and executive with World Bank, Bank of America, and American Express
- Adam Aron, chairman and CEO of AMC Theatres
- Gerry Ashworth â Olympic gold medalist sprinter
- Joseph L. Badaracco â senior associate dean, chair, and professor of business ethics, HBS MBA program; author
- Rahul Bajaj, 1964 â Indian CEO of Bajaj Auto
- Raymond W. Baker, 1960 â director of Global Financial Integrity
- Jim Balsillie, 1989 â billionaire co-CEO of Research In Motion
- Steve Bannon â former White House advisor and former chairman of Breitbart News Network
- Alex Behring â co-founder and managing partner of 3G Capital
- Tarek Ben Halim â investment banker and founder of Alfanar, a venture philanthropy organization
- Guy Berruyer â French CEO of Sage Group
- Ernesto Bertarelli - Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
- Paul Bilzerian (born 1950), financier convicted of securities fraud
- Len Blavatnik, 1989 â Ukrainian-American businessman
- Michael Bloomberg, 1966 â former mayor of New York City
- Dan Bricklin, 1979 â inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
- Tracy Britt Cool, 2009 â entrepreneur; former director of Berkshire Hathaway and subsidiaries
- Charles Bunch, 1979 â CEO of PPG Industries
- Jean Burelle (born 1938/39) â French billionaire chairman and CEO of Burelle
- Steve Burke â NBCUniversal CEO; Comcast executive vice president
- George W. Bush, 1975 â 43rd President of the United States and former Governor of Texas
- Liam Byrne, 2010 â politician, British Labour Party Member of parliament
- Philip Caldwell, 1942 â chairman and CEO of the Ford Motor Company
- Chase Carey, 1980 â president of News Corporation
- Cynthia Carroll, 1989 â former CEO of Anglo American PLC
- Donald J. Carty, 1971 â chairman and CEO of American Airlines
- Elaine Chao, 1979 â U.S. Secretary of Transportation and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- P. Chidambaram, 1968 â former Union Minister of Finance in India
- Teresa Clarke â former managing director of Goldman Sachs (2004âÂÂ2010) and CEO and founder of Africa.com
- Vittorio Colao, 1990 â CEO of Vodafone Group
- Scott Cook, 1976 â Co-founder of Intuit
- Sherry Coutu, 1993 â former CEO and angel investor
- Stephen Covey, 1957 â self-help author
- Zoe Cruz, 1982 â banker; former co-president of Morgan Stanley
- Philip Hart Cullom, 1988 â U.S. Navy Vice Admiral
- John D'Agostino, 2002 â managing director of Alkeon Capital and subject of best-selling book Rigged: The True Story of a Wall Street Novice who Changed the World of Oil Forever
- Daniel A. D'Aniello, 1974 â co-founder of The Carlyle Group
- Ray Dalio, 1973 â founded Bridgewater Associates
- Jeffrey Deitch, 1978 â art dealer and gallerist
- Elisabeth DeMarse, 1980 â CEO of Newser
- Anne Dias-Griffin, 1997 â hedge fund manager for Aragon Global Management
- Betty Jane Diener, 1964 (and DBA, 1974) â Virginia Secretary of Commerce (1982âÂÂ1986)
- Jamie Dimon, 1982 â CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase
- James Dinan, 1985 â founder of hedge fund York Capital Management
- Tim Draper, 1984 â venture capital investor
- Colin Drummond â CEO of Viridor and joint CEO of Pennon Group
- Donna Dubinsky, 1981 â CEO of Palm, Inc.
- Axel Dumas, 2010 â CEO of Hermès
- Erik Engstrom, 2015 â CEO of Reed Elsevier
- Mary Callahan Erdoes, 1993 â CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Mark Ein, 1992 â venture caplaitlist and owner of sports teams
- Sheldon Erikson, 1970 â chairman, president and CEO of Cameron International Corporation
- Diana Farrell 1991 â president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Institute
- Nicholas Ferguson â chairman of BskyB
- Mark Fields, 1989 â president and CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Randy Fine, 1998 â U.S. Representative and gambling industry executive
- Barbara Hackman Franklin, 1964 â 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Jane Fraser, 1994 â CEO of Citigroup
- Morten Friis, 1979 â Chief Risk Officer of Royal Bank of Canada
- Orit Gadiesh, 1977- Israeli-American chairperson of management consulting firm Bain & Company
- Gregory Gray Garland Jr., 1949 â lawyer and business executive; chairman of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
- William W. George â senior fellow and professor, HBS MBA program; author; former chair and CEO of Medtronic
- Brad Gerstner, 2000 â founder of Altimeter Capital
- Lou Gerstner, 1965 â former CEO of IBM
- Shikhar Ghosh, 1980 â entrepreneur, lecturer at HBS
- Melvin Gordon, 1943 â CEO of Tootsie Roll Industries (1962âÂÂ2015)
- Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis - business executive and spouse of the Prime Minister of Greece
- Allan Gray, 1965 â founder of Allan Gray Investment Management and philanthropist
- Jonathan Grayer, 1990 â CEO of Kaplan, Inc. and Founder and CEO of Imagine Learning
- John Grayken â billionaire founder of Lone Star Funds
- C. Scott Green, 1989 â president of the University of Idaho
- Ranjay Gulati â professor, HBS MBA program, author
- Rajat Gupta, 1973 â former managing director of McKinsey & Company; convicted of insider trading in the 2011 Galleon Group case
- Walter A. Haas Jr., 1939 â CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
- Ken Hakuta, 1977 â entrepreneur and inventor
- Dido Harding - British Conservative Party businesswoman serving as chairwoman of NHS Improvement since 2017
- Josh Harris, 1990 â co-founder of Apollo Global Management and owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL's New Jersey Devils, and the NFL's Washington Commanders
- Fred Hassan, 1972 â CEO of Schering-Plough
- Frances Haugen, 2011 â data engineer and Facebook whistleblower
- Rodney A. Hawes Jr., 1969 â CEO of LifeRe and benefactor of the Hawes Hall classroom building
- Randy Haykin, 1988 â founder of The Intersection Event and The Gratitude Network
- Fritz Henderson, 1984 â former president and CEO of General Motors
- John B. Hess, 1977 â CEO of Hess Corporation
- Angie Hicks, 2000 â Co-founder of Angie's List
- Andy Hill, 1990 â politician, Washington State Senator
- Douglas Hodge, 1984 â CEO of PIMCO, pled guilty to fraud for allegedly participating in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal
- Robert Hoffman, co-founder, National Lampoon, art collector
- Chris Hohn, 1993 â British activist investor, billionaire, philanthropist, founder of The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
- Yoshito Hori, 1991 â founder of Globis University Graduate School of Management
- Darren Huston, 1994 â CEO of Priceline
- Jennifer Hyman, 2009 â Co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway
- Jeff Immelt, 1982 â former chairman and CEO of General Electric
- Andy Jassy, 1997 â CEO, Amazon
- Abigail Johnson, 1988 â chairman of Fidelity Investments
- Ron Johnson, 1984 â former CEO of J. C. Penney
- Henry Juszkiewicz, 1979 â CEO of Gibson Guitars Inc.
- George Kaiser, 1966 â chairman of BOK Financial Corporation
- Steven Kandarian â CEO of Metlife Group
- Judith Kent, business executive and philanthropist
- Salman Khan, 2003 â founder of Khan Academy
- Naina Lal Kidwai, 1982 â Indian Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India
- Seth Klarman â billionaire hedge fund manager; Baupost Group founder
- Jim Koch, 1978 â co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company
- Robert Kraft, 1965 â chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group, owner of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution
- Larry S. Kramer, 1974 â founder and CEO of Marketwatch, president and publisher of USA Today
- A.G. Lafley, 1977 â former CEO and chairman of the board of Procter & Gamble
- Jack Langer (born 1948/1949) â basketball player and investment banker
- Stephen D. Lebovitz, 1988 â CEO of CBL & Associates Properties
- Kewsong Lee, 1990 â CEO of The Carlyle Group.
- William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth â UKIP Member of the European Parliament
- Michael Lynton, 1987 â chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
- William MacDonald, 1940 â Christian preacher and writer in the Plymouth Brethren movement
- Anand Mahindra, 1981 â Indian owner and chairman of Mahindra Group
- Nadiem Makarim, 2011 â co-founder and former CEO of Gojek, Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia
- Stephen Mandel â billionaire hedge fund manager; Lone Pine Capital founder
- Lawrence Marcus, 1940 â Vice-president of Neiman Marcus
- Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein, 1998 â president and CEO of LGT Group
- Tom McGrath â chairman of Broadway Across America, Broadway and film producer
- Depelsha Thomas McGruder, 1998 - COO of the Ford Foundation, founder of Moms of Black Boys (MOBB) United
- Robert McNamara, 1939 â former Secretary of Defense; former president of World Bank
- W. James McNerney Jr., 1975 â CEO of Boeing
- Richard Menschel, 1959 â (retired) senior director of Goldman Sachs; 2015 winner of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
- Christopher Michel, 1998 â founder and former CEO of Military.com, and founder and former CEO Affinity Labs
- Hiroshi Mikitani - founder and CEO of Rakuten
- Karen Mills, 1977 â 23rd Administrator of the Small Business Administration
- Ann S. Moore, 1978 â CEO of Time Inc.
- David Nelms, 1987 â CEO of Discover Financial Services
- Grover Norquist, 1981 â president of Americans for Tax Reform
- Mark Okerstrom, 2004 President/CEO of Expedia Group
- Neil Pasricha, 2007 â author and speaker
- Henry Paulson, 1970 â former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former CEO of Goldman Sachs
- John Paulson â president of hedge fund Paulson & Co.
- Art Peck, 1979 â CEO of GAP, Inc.
- Richard B. Peiser, 1973 â scholar and educator in urban planning and real estate development.
- Joseph R. Perella, 1972 â founder and CEO of Wasserstein Perella & Co. and Perella Weinberg Partners
- Chip Perry, 1980 â former president and CEO of TrueCar; first employee and CEO of AutoTrader.com
- Carl Howard Pforzheimer Jr (1907âÂÂ1996), 1930 â investment banker
- Mark Pincus â CEO of Zynga
- Michael B. Polk â CEO of Newell Brands
- Matthew Prince â Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare
- Ramalinga Raju, 1993 - Indian businessman, convicted of fraud
- Bruce Rauner, 1981 â 42nd Governor of Illinois
- Edwin W. Rawlings, 1939 â U.S. Air Force and president and chairman of General Mills
- James Reed, 1990 â British chairman and chief executive of the Reed group of companies
- John Replogle former CEO of Seventh Generation Inc.
- Gary Rodkin, 1979 â CEO and president of ConAgra Foods
- Mitt Romney, 1975 â 70th Governor of Massachusetts, co-founder of Bain Capital and 2012 presidential nominee of the Republican Party
- Wilbur Ross, 1961 â Secretary of Commerce (2017âÂÂ2021) under the first Trump administration
- Sheryl Sandberg, 1995 â COO of Facebook
- Ann Sarnoff, 1987 â president of BBC America
- Ulf Mark Schneider, 1993 â CEO of Nestlé, and former CEO of Fresenius
- Gerry Schwartz, 1970 - founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation
- Stephen A. Schwarzman, 1972 â founder of Blackstone Group
- Joe Shoen, 1973 â billionaire chairman of AMERCO
- Martin A. Siegel, 1971 â former Kidder, Peabody & Co. investment banker and former Drexel Burnham Lambert managing director; convicted for insider trading in 1987
- Jayant Sinha, 1992 â Union Minister of State for Finance of India
- Chatri Sityodtong, 1999 â chairman and CEO of ONE Championship
- Jeffrey Skilling, 1979 â former CEO of Enron; convicted of securities fraud and insider trading
- Tad Smith â CEO of Sotheby's
- Gunnar Sønsteby, 1947 â Norwegian World War Two resistance fighter, most highly decorated person of Norway
- Guy Spier, 1993 â Swiss-German-Israeli author and investor
- E. Roe Stamps 1974 â founding partner of private equity firm Summit Partners
- Gerald L. Storch â chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us, Inc.
- Sandra Sucher â businesswoman; professor, HBS MBA program
- Anjali Sud, 2011 â CEO of Vimeo
- Anthony Tan, 2011 â co-founder and CEO of Grab
- Tan Hooi Ling, 2011 â Malaysian co-founder and COO of Grab
- John Thain, 1979 â former CEO of Merrill Lynch
- Pamela Thomas-Graham, 1988 â businesswoman Clorox, Credit Suisse, and Liz Claiborne, author
- Whitney Tilson, 1994 â hedge fund manager, philanthropist, author, and Democratic political activist
- Gerald Tremblay, 1972 â mayor of Montreal and former Quebec Minister of Industry, Commerce, Science and Technology
- Melvin T. Tukman, 1966 â co-founder and president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management
- David Viniar, 1980 â CFO and executive vice president of Goldman Sachs
- Rick Wagoner, 1977 â former CEO of General Motors
- Wendell Weeks, 1987 â chairman, CEO and president of Corning Inc.
- John C. Whitehead, 1947 â former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Meg Whitman, 1979 â president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Glenn Youngkin, 1994 â Governor of Virginia; former co-CEO of The Carlyle Group
- Gideon Yu, 1999 â Former CFO of Facebook and YouTube
- Michelle Zatlyn, 2009 â Canadian co-founder, president, and COO of Cloudflare
DBA
- Jay Lorsch, DBA, 1964 â professor, HBS MBA program; contingency theory contributor; author, DBA (1964)
- George Schussel, DBA, 1966 â founder and former chairman of Digital Consulting Institute and founder of Jellicle Investors, Inc.
- Robert B. Stobaugh, DBA, 1968 â Harvard Business School emeritus professor of Business Administration
Executive Education
Advanced Management Program (AMP)
An Advanced Management Program is a non-degree senior executive education program.
- Timothy I. Ahern, 1967 â U.S. Air Force Major General
- Gabi Ashkenazi, AMP, 2004 â Chief of the General Staff of Israel Defense Forces
- Jaime Zobel de Ayala, 1963 â Filipino businessman and chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation
- Julie Bishop, AMP, 1996 â Australian deputy Prime Minister
- Rick Burr, 2013 â Chief of the Australian Army
- Alden W. Clausen, 1966 â World Bank former President
- Christine M. Day, 2002 â Canadian business executive and former CEO of Lululemon
- Y. C. Deveshwar â chairman and CEO of ITC Limited
- Muhammad bin Ibrahim, 2010 â 8th Governor of Central Bank of Malaysia
- Antony Leung, 1999 â financial secretary of Hong Kong
- William Lewis, 2009 â Journalist, British Media Executive
- Minoru Makihara, 1977 â Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation
- Christopher McCormick â president and CEO of L.L. Bean
- David V. Miller â U.S. Air Force Major General
- Michael Mullen, 1991 â Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States armed forces
- A. Sivathanu Pillai, 1991 â honorary distinguished professor of Indian Space Research Organisation
- Matthew Barrett (banker), 1981 â Former Chairman and CEO, Bank of Montreal; chairman and Chief Executive, Barclays Bank
- Ajay Piramal, 1992 â chairman, Piramal Group
- Ratan Tata, 1975 â chairman and CEO Tata Sons
- Lucius Theus, AMP 57 â Major General in the United States Air Force
- Jim Lovell, 1971 â Astronaut, Apollo 13
- Carlos Jaureguizar, CEO of Sanitas and Bupa Europe&LatinAmerica
Other executive education
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