Ray Weaver, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School is joining us as Guest Speaker. Ray teaches the first-year MBA course in marketing at Harvard. His research focus on social learning: the ways and extent to which people determine their wants and needs using information from the social environment. In addition to his academic career, Ray has held several positions at consulting and information technology firms, concentrating on the marketing of new technologies.
Most recently, Ray worked for Akamai, a Cambridge-based Internet infrastructure services company. As Akamai’s first marketing employee, he played a key role in shaping the company’s brand and marketing strategy during its rapid growth from no revenue to over $90M in its first full year of operations.
Ray received his Ph.D. in management science from MIT. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar; and B.S. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, at which he was a Woodward Fellow.
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston , Massachusetts, Unites States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive education programs. It owns Harvard Business School Publishing, which publishes business books, online management tools and corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review.
