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Debora L. Spar
Monday, July 14, 2008
Newly appointed as Barnard College's
next president, Debora L. Spar is the Spangler Family Professor
at Harvard Business School, where she teaches courses on the
politics of international business, comparative capitalism, and
economic development. She is also the faculty chair of "Making
Markets Work," an executive education program devoted to
public and private sector leaders in Africa, and teaches and
consults for a number of multinational corporations, government
agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Spar's current
research focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment, examining
how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies
shape and constrain their options. She is particularly interested
in information-based industries such as media, entertainment,
and biotechnology. Her current research examines the politics
of reproductive science, analyzing how the "baby business"
has developed and how commerce, politics and technology are likely
to interact in and affect this market. Dr. Spar is the author
of numerous articles that have been published in academic and
public policy journals such as the Harvard Business Review, Foreign
Affairs, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest
book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive
the Commerce of Conception, was published by Harvard Business
School Press in 2006. |
