Faculty and Research

Boris Groysberg is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches the Managing Human Capital course in the second year elective course of the MBA program and in several Executive Education programs.

Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related papers, he examines how firms develop, hire, retain, and utilize star knowledge workers. By focusing on the performance of these highly skilled professionals, his research contributes to the human capital theory, the theory of allocation of talent, the theory of labor market competition, and human research management studies. Boris Groysberg has won, for two consecutive years, the Strategic Management Society PhD Fellowship (Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS fellow) for his research on talent management. In 2001, he was also named runner up for the Best Conference Paper Prize.

Professor Groysberg holds a DBA in Business Policy from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in accounting from New York University. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked at IBM.

Professor Groysberg has taught executive education and has advised professional service firms. He lives in Brookline, with his wife Liliya and his children.