Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration
Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management units, his course development efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of Invention. His Harvard degrees include an AB in biology and a Ph.D. (1993) in business economics.

Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration
Forest Reinhardt, an authority on the use of natural resources, serves as course head for the required Strategy course and also teaches the MBA elective Business and the Environment. His research focuses on the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, particularly in the energy industry and in the food and agribusiness sector. He is interested in the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of environmental protection. Reinhardt’s most recent book is Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management. A native of Missoula, Montana, he holds three Harvard degrees: an AB, an MBA (1987), and a Ph.D. (1990) in business economics.

Debora L. Spar, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
An expert in business-government relations and the politics of international commerce, Debora Spar joined the HBS faculty in 1991 and presently chairs the Business, Government and International Economy (BGIE) unit. Her research focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment — examining how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape and constrain their options. Having spent several years examining information-based industries, such as media and entertainment, her latest research project looks at the politics of life science and at the particular politics that surround the commercialization of reproductive technologies. Her recent publications include a book of cases on managing international trade and investment and Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet. She received her MA and Ph.D. (1990) in government from Harvard.

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