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03 Mar 2025

Harvard Business School Announces Spring 2025 Cohort of Executive Fellows

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BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced a new cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2025 spring semester. The Executive Fellows program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners—many of whom are alumni—to enhance teaching and learning at the School. Fellows partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business experience to the HBS community.

Fellows contribute to the School by collaborating on both curricular and co-curricular activities. These include, for example, participating in course sessions in the MBA elective curriculum, providing career advice and developmental mentoring to students, and assisting with short format offerings that provide opportunities for students to explore new topics. Fellows also bring their expertise to the School’s HBS Online and Executive Education programs by collaborating with faculty in case development and other research projects. Fellow affiliations range from a few months to one year and may be extended.

“HBS launched the Executive Fellows program in 2020 to provide an avenue by which experienced business leaders and practitioners can contribute to the School’s mission in a variety of meaningful ways,” said Professor Len Schlesinger, chair of the program. “These remarkably insightful and generous Executive Fellows share valuable perspective from their own lived experiences, and these engagements have been enormously beneficial to our faculty and our students. We are grateful for the time and expertise they bring to our community.”

The Spring 2025 Executive Fellows and their HBS faculty collaborators are:

Mike Anello (MBA 2016), Co-Founder & Managing Director, M33 Growth
Anello is collaborating with Lou Shipley on the MBA elective curriculum course Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor.

Mark Aslett (MBA 1997), Former CEO, Mercury Systems
Aslett is collaborating with Arthur Brooks on the MBA elective curriculum course Leadership and Happiness.

Thomas Baker, technical founder, early-stage investor, and AI engineer
Baker is collaborating with Rembrand Koning on the MBA elective curriculum course Strategy for Entrepreneurs.

Edward Boyajian (MBA 1990), Former President & CEO, EDB
Boyajian is collaborating with Shipley on the MBA elective curriculum course B2B Sales and Distribution.

Raj Chinai, Partner, Iron Pillar
Chinai is collaborating with Feng Zhu on projects related to globalization in the digital age.

Mark Diker (MBA 1996), CEO and Managing General Partner, Diker Management LLC
Diker is collaborating with Shai Bernstein and Reza Satchu on the MBA elective curriculum course Founder Launch.

Lisa Edwards (MBA 1994), Former Executive Chair, Diligent Institute
Edwards is collaborating with Lynn Paine and Suraj Srinivasan on projects related to corporate governance.

Peter Fasolo, Former Chief Human Resources Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Fasolo is collaborating with Joe Fuller and Chris Stanton on projects related to workforce reskilling.

Tina Fernandez, Founder & CEO, Day Six Leadership
Fernandez is collaborating with Nien-hê Hsieh and Derek van Bever on the MBA elective curriculum course The Spiritual Lives of Leaders.

Florian Hillen, Founder & CEO, VideaHealth, Inc.
Hillen is collaborating with Tsedal Neeley on projects related to artificial intelligence.

Alan Hippe, Chief Financial and Information Officer, Roche
Hippe is collaborating with George Serafeim on projects related to competitiveness in Europe.

David Kemp (MBA 2014), CEO, Village Gourmet
Kemp is collaborating with Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff on the MBA elective curriculum field course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition.

Dianne Ledingham (MBA 1990), Partner and Director, Bain & Company
Ledingham is collaborating with Shipley on the MBA elective curriculum course B2B Sales and Distribution.

Bobbi Mahlab, Founder & Chair, Mahlab and Co-Founder, Mentor Walks
Mahlab is collaborating with Kathleen McGinn on projects related to intergenerational mentoring and problem-solving.

Amanda McEwen, Senior VP, Clinical Development at Salubris Biotherapeutics, Inc
McEwen is collaborating with Satish Tadikonda on projects related to entrepreneurship in the life sciences.

Charles Moldow (MBA 1993), General Partner, Foundation Capital
Moldow is collaborating with faculty in the Entrepreneurial Management unit on a number of MBA elective curriculum courses, specifically with Jeff Bussgang on Launching Tech Ventures, Jeffrey Rayport on Scaling Technology Ventures, and Shai Bernstein and Ray Kluender on Entrepreneurial Finance.
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