Peter Olson
Peter Olson
MBA Class of 1953 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
| Unit | Strategy |
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Peter Olson is Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1972 (magna cum laude in History), Harvard Law School in 1976 (cum laude), and Harvard Business School in 1976. He worked as an attorney for three years, in commercial and investment banking for nine years, and for the international media group Bertelsmann for twenty years; from 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann; from 1998 to 2008 he was the Chairman and CEO of Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher. From 2000 to 2001 he was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Vienna.