Dr. Anthony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches FIELD (Field Immersion and Experiential Leadership Development), a new required experiential, field-based course in the first year of the MBA Program. Previously, he co-created and taught the course "Great Business Leaders: The Importance of Contextual Intelligence". Dr. Mayo also teaches extensively in leadership-based executive education programs. He co-authored In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, which has been translated into five languages and two corresponding books in the series that profile business leaders. These books are derived from the development of the Great American Business Leaders database that co-authors Dr. Nohria and Dr. Mayo created. Dr. Mayo also serves as the director of the HBS Leadership Initiative, an interdisciplinary center that serves as a catalyst for cutting-edge research and course development on leaders and leadership. As director, Dr. Mayo oversees comprehensive research projects on emerging, global, and legacy leadership and manages a number of executive education programs on leadership development. He co-created the High Potentials Leadership Development and the Leadership Best Practices programs and has been a principal contributor to a number of custom leadership development programs. He designed and currently oversees the executive coaching component of Harvard Business School�s Program for Leadership
Development.Dr. Mayo completed his MBA from Harvard Business School and received his bachelor�s degree, summa cum laude, from Boston College. He lives in Needham, MA with his wife, Denise, and their three children, Hannah, Alex, and Jacob.
