Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, he teaches the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business.

He also teaches in several executive education programs, including Owner/President Management, Family Office Wealth Management, and Families in Business. He formerly taught MBA courses on Family Business Management and Managing Conflict in Family Business at Columbia Business School.

Josh’s interests are in how to build businesses to last for the long-term, how to manage conflict, and how ownership affects company goals and strategies. He has written extensively for Harvard Business Review and is co-author of their Family Business Handbook, which has been translated into Croatian, Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Josh is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at BanyanGlobal, a leading advisor to family enterprises. For the last 18 years, he has worked closely with families who own operating companies, family foundations, and family offices together. He helps these families to define their purpose as owners and to establish the structures, strategies, and skills they need to accomplish their goals.