Bio myra hart

MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.

Myra Hart”s research and teaching focus on high potential entrepreneurship with an emphasis on the development of critical resources and relationships. She is a member of the Diana Group, a research team of five professors who collaborate in the investigation of the unique challenges and opportunities of female entrepreneurs. She and her colleagues have co-authored Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses, Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled, and Gatekeepers of Venture Growth: A Diana Project Report on the Role and Participation of Women in the Venture Capital Industry, as well as numerous journal articles, reports, and two edited books. She has developed more than 60 HBS cases and teaching notes.

Hart has taught The Entrepreneurial Manager, Starting New Ventures, Women Building Business, Building Business in the Context of a Life, Social Enterprise, and Foundations of Modern Capitalism. She has created two executive education courses The Entrepreneurs” Tool Kit and Women Leading Business: Innovation and Success and two alumni programs Charting Your Course and New Path, both of which address the changing career needs of professional women. Her administrative responsibilites have included co-chairing the entrepreneurship unit, leading major case writing initiatives, and co-chairing the HBS Models of Success program. She has also served on the Harvard University Task Force on Women Faculty, Advisory Council on Shareholder Responsibillity and the Children”s Health Initiative and is currently an advisory board member of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, Hart worked in the retail industry. In 1985, she joined Tom Stemberg as one of the four founding officers of Staples, the Office Superstore. Prior to that she was Director of Marketing for Star Market, a division of Jewel Companies.

She is director of the Center for Women”s Business Research, a trustee of Cornell University, a member of the President”s Council of Cornell Women. She is a director of several public and private companies including Royal Ahold, eCornell, Office Depot, and Nina McLemore, Inc. Harvard Business School has recognized Professor Hart with the Apgar Award for innovation in teaching and the Greenhill Award for faculty leadership. She has been named to the Hall of Fame by Enterprising Women, CEO (Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization) and New England Business and Technology Association.
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