Faculty and Research

Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Reinhardt teaches an elective MBA course on energy, which examines the strategies of firms that produce oil and gas, generate and distribute electricity, or play other important roles in the delivery of energy services. He also teaches an elective MBA course on Business and the Environment. He teaches regularly in the HBS Agribusiness Seminar and other executive education programs at the School. In addition, he recently served as course head for the required MBA course, Strategy, which covers topics in industry analysis, competitive advantage, and corporate strategy.

Reinhardt currently serves as the faculty chair of Harvard Business School's European Research Initiative.

Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. He has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, used at Harvard and many other schools in MBA curricula and in executive programs.

Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College.