Nabil N. El-Hage
Nabil N. El-Hage
Adjunct Professor
Associate Dean for External Relations
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Nabil N. El-Hage serves as Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the General Management area, and is also Associate Dean for External Relations. He first joined the HBS faculty in 1984, immediately after obtaining his MBA from the School, and taught the required MBA finance course in 1984-85. For the past several years, Professor El-Hage has taught the required Corporate Finance course, Fin 2, and the elective Private Equity Finance course, the development of which he spearheaded. Currently, he teaches the elective course, Active Investing - Management and Governance, and the required course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability.
Prior to returning to HBS in 2003, El-Hage gained experience in private equity and venture capital with TA Associates and Advent International, as well as on the operating side, as CFO of Back Bay Restaurant Group. He also served as Chairman and CEO of Jeepers! Inc., a private equity-financed national chain of indoor theme parks for nearly ten years.
El-Hage also has experience with McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he was a Research Consultant before business school.
El-Hage has served on a dozen boards of private and public companies, ranging from start-ups to several billion dollars in revenues. He served as president of the Yale Club of Boston from 2005 until June 2007. He is currently the independent Chairman of the MassMutual Premier Funds, a $10 billion mutual fund complex.
El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
El-Hage lives in Weston with his wife, Lucy, who is also a member of the HBS Class of 1984. They have two children, Nelson, a graduate of MIT, and Bea, an undergraduate at Harvard College.