Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the Digital Value Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard. He co-leads the HBS MBA program as the chair of the MBA Elective Curriculum. He was previously the head of the Accounting & Management faculty department and the course head for the required HBS MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. Professor Srinivasan’s expertise spans three research domains – data science and artificial intelligence, corporate governance and boards of directors, and financial reporting and risk management.
Professor Srinivasan’s research on how artificial intelligence is transforming business at the Digital Value Lab covers topics on digital performance impact, governance of AI, strategies for adoption of AI and gen AI across a range of industries and business functions, with a focus on AI in finance, banking, and capital markets,. He teaches the HBS MBA course Data Science for Managers, created a new MBA elective course Generative AI for Business Leaders, and frequently teaches AI topics in several executive programs. He has published research on AI and data driven decision making at scholarly journals as well as in the Harvard Business Review and has written several case studies on cutting edge phenomenon related to the topics of AI, gen AI, and big data. He frequently works with companies and consulting firms on topics related to AI and digital transformation.
Professor Srinivasan is also a widely published expert in corporate governance and boards of directors. He chairs or co-chairs the board governance programs at HBS, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Preparing to be a Corporate Director, Advanced Corporate Director Seminar, and programs for audit committees and compensation committees. He serves on the Board of Directors and as the chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Harvard Business Publishing Corp., a media and publishing business, and is the chair of the advisory board of Newsweek Inc. He also serves on the Harvard University Information Security Risk Oversight Board. He frequently advises boards of directors and audit and compensation committees on board effectiveness, corporate governance polices, board assessment and training, financial reporting and disclosure matters, executive compensation, and internal controls and risk management.
Professor Srinivasan has written extensively in the areas of financial reporting, accounting, risk management, and governance challenges in companies. His research examines accounting quality, governance of financial reporting and auditing, the auditing industry, accounting fraud and misconduct, and the role of capital market intermediaries such as sell-side analysts. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review, among others. He is the department editor for accounting at Management Science, a premier scholarly management journal. His case studies are used extensively in business schools and accounting programs around the world. He is currently developing a course for HBS Online titled Strategic Financial Analysis and previously taught Business Analysis and Valuation, an MBA elective course.
Professor Srinivasan has also worked extensively on strategy execution and management systems, a topic he teaches in the HBS Owner/President Management program for entrepreneurs and family business owners and in the General Managers Program for senior business executives. He serves as an advisor to CEOs and assists leadership teams in several organizations on strategy formulation and execution.
Professor Srinivasan earned a bachelor's degree with honors in electrical and electronics engineering and a master's degree in physics with honors from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences in India prior to earning an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He received a doctorate degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 2004 where he received the George S. Dively Award for outstanding thesis research. At HBS, he has received the Received the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Faculty Service and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Srinivasan was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 2004 – 2008 where he received the Ernest R. Wish Accounting Research prize.