Jobs at Harvard Business School

Develop and maintain data cleaning, processing, management, and analytic pipelines for complex health, environmental, and administrative datasets. The role uses R, Python, SQL, GitHub, UNIX, HPC clusters, workflow tools, containers, and JSON metadata. Responsibilities include database maintenance, software development, debugging, data exploration, dataset creation, code refactoring, dashboard and data product deployment, documentation, and collaboration with research and infrastructure teams.

Manages sponsored research administration across the grant lifecycle, including proposal review, award monitoring, financial reporting, compliance, risk management, audits, and closeout. Serves as a liaison among faculty, research centers, and university offices; prepares activity reports and expenditure projections; provides policy guidance and training; coordinates sensitive communications; and represents the school on administrative committees.

Oversees the Academic Flourishing Initiative’s strategy, growth, recruitment, member engagement, revenue development, communications, research reporting, administration, staffing, budgeting, invoicing, and financial compliance. The role collaborates with Harvard leaders, colleges and universities, researchers, finance teams, legal offices, and communications staff to expand the data collaborative and deliver institutional reports and findings.

Oversees the Christianity & The Common Good initiative’s daily operations, staffing, finances, communications, courses, scholarly engagement, and events. Responsibilities include developing administrative and financial systems, managing budgets and transactions, coordinating faculty and researchers, maintaining communications channels, planning conferences and seminars, engaging donors and external partners, and ensuring compliance with Harvard policies. The role is hybrid, requires approximately 10% travel, and is a one-year term appointment with possible extension.

Supports Executive Education finance operations by answering participant and corporate finance inquiries, facilitating payments and vendor setup, processing participant transfers, invoices, credit notes, and refunds in Salesforce, and preparing payment and prepaid accounting reports and journal entries. Provides backup invoicing support, coordinates tax documentation and compliance requests, delivers high-quality customer service, and recommends process improvements while collaborating with Finance and Program Delivery teams.

Leads engagement, alumni relations, donor stewardship, development support, and fundraising activities for the Center for Public Leadership. Designs alumni and donor programs, plans events, manages councils and external relationships, supports senior leaders, evaluates engagement data, oversees communications resources, manages budgets and vendors, and leads a team. The role requires collaboration with university development and communications teams, along with occasional evenings, weekends, and travel.

Leads Harvard’s donor impact reporting and stewardship program, establishing standards, workflows, quality controls, and reporting strategies for endowed funds, gifts, grants, campaigns, and capital projects. Oversees donor-centered reports that combine financial data, institutional outcomes, and compelling stories. Manages and develops the reporting team, coordinates with advancement and academic stakeholders, supports donor cultivation and retention, and advises leadership on impact communications and stewardship strategy.

Leads donor and alumni engagement activities involving Harvard academic leaders. Develops engagement plans, prioritizes leadership time, manages portfolios, oversees travel and event logistics, coordinates prospect meetings, reviews briefing materials, and maintains data management practices. Supervises assistant directors and a coordinator while partnering with development leadership, academic offices, fundraisers, donors, and prospects. The role also supports process improvement, reporting, strategic planning, and relationship management within a complex university environment.

Manages Harvard Library HR functions including position classification, compensation analysis, position management, HRIS reporting, compliance, performance management, and leadership development programs. Oversees HR processes from intake through communication, advises leadership on organizational changes, supports data integrity, and coordinates annual performance and compensation activities. The role is hybrid and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Leads data and technology strategy for Harvard Business School’s Alumni Engagement and Development organization. Directs digital transformation, AI and analytics initiatives, data governance, technology implementations, incident response, vendor coordination, and alignment with enterprise IT. Oversees Business Intelligence and Alumni Records teams, manages the technology project portfolio, advises senior leadership, and drives cross-functional innovation and responsible use of alumni data.

Manages workforce training and career pathway programs for diverse adult learners. Develops curricula, delivers professional and technical training, provides participant case management, monitors workforce trends, and builds partnerships with employers, training providers, nonprofits, and community organizations. Oversees outreach, referrals, marketing, program scheduling, credentialing opportunities, and stakeholder communication across industries including life sciences, healthcare, technology, construction, and climate-related fields.

Provides administrative and financial support to Office of General Counsel attorneys, including calendar management, travel, legal document processing, file and docket management, invoice and payment processing, spending reports, reception coverage, and office projects. Coordinates with outside law firm billing departments and the Insurance Office, prepares staff training, and leads fiscal-year-end and accrual processes.

Coordinates an interdisciplinary research initiative spanning thermal materials, intelligent building systems, and urban energy management. Organizes cross-team meetings, tracks progress, facilitates stakeholder and industry collaboration, prepares technical and non-technical reports, and coordinates extramural funding proposals. Supports integration and implementation of energy-efficient, climate-focused innovations across research and real-world settings.

Provides strategic and operational HR partnership to Harvard Law School research and technology centers. Advises leaders on organizational design, talent acquisition, employee relations, performance, compensation, change management, engagement, and workforce planning while aligning practices with university policies and supporting diverse, multidisciplinary teams.

Manages Faculty Support Services staff, centralized event planning, vendor coordination, logistics, budgets, financial transactions, and departmental administrative workflows. Oversees event execution, registration, marketing, post-event reconciliation, Concur expenses, and Buy2Pay payments while developing procedures and providing interim administrative coverage across Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Serves as a strategic HR advisor to managers, faculty, staff, and bargaining unit representatives. Provides guidance on employee and labor relations, performance management, compensation, staffing, retention, career development, organizational design, policy compliance, and change management. Partners with Talent Acquisition and other HR teams, leads HR projects, improves service delivery, and ensures accurate HR and payroll transactions while handling confidential information.

Administer and maintain Linux, Windows, VMware, networking, hardware, software, and system configurations. Implement infrastructure, security, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions. Monitor performance, manage accounts and access, apply patches, install packages, perform backups, and troubleshoot user and server issues. Provide project assistance, documentation, and customer support in a hybrid research computing environment.

Provides confidential administrative and front-office support for Harvard’s SHARE team. Responsibilities include reception, scheduling, records management, invoices, travel, events, vendors, supplies, web updates, database training, reporting, process documentation, and coordination with IT and facilities. The role requires discretion when handling sensitive information, supports urgent requests, and includes completion of sexual assault counselor training within six months.

Administer and optimize Harvard Business School’s AI services, platforms, integrations, and applications. Responsibilities include access management, connector and MCP server validation, service monitoring, incident coordination, rollouts, documentation, security reviews, licensing support, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement. The role serves as an operational subject matter expert, collaborating with IT teams and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, governed, and supportable AI services.

Provides administrative and coordination support to principal and major gift fundraisers. Responsibilities include calendar and travel management, donor prospect tracking, database maintenance, report generation, prospect research, briefing preparation, meeting and event support, and coordination with university stakeholders, donors, alumni, faculty, and research centers. The role requires discretion, strong organization, customer service, communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development office.