Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

Myra Hart is a member of the Kraft Foods Board of Directors and has served as a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School since 1995.  Ms. Hart’s academic research and teaching focuses on high-potential entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on developing critical resources and relationships.  She has co-authored four books and developed more than 60 Harvard Business School cases.  Though she recently retired from teaching in the MBA program, she remains engaged in the school’s executive programs and is currently a visiting scholar at Babson College and Stanford University. 

Previously, Ms. Hart worked in the retail sector where she was a founding member of the office superstore chain, Staples, Inc.  She served as Vice President of Growth and Development and led the chain’s operations, strategic planning and growth implementation in new and existing markets.  Before joining Staples, she was Director of Marketing for the New England-based grocery retailer, Star Market, now a subsidiary of SuperValu.

Ms. Hart currently serves on the Board of Directors of Office Depot, Inc. and Nina McLemore, Inc.  She is a trustee of Babson College, Trustee Emeritus of Cornell University, a director of the Center for Women’s Business Research, and a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution.

Ms. Hart holds a Doctor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelors of Arts from Cornell University.

Director since December 2007