Jan Rivkin is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School. His research, course development, and teaching efforts examine the interactions across functional and product boundaries within a firm. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, Professor Rivkin also co-chairs HBS’s project on the competitiveness of the United States.
Professor Rivkin received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard. Earlier, he studied chemical engineering and public policy at Princeton and obtained a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics on a Marshall Scholarship. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Rivkin led case teams and managed client relationships at Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.