BIO

Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he serves on the Accounting and Management faculty and chairs the Digital Value Lab at Harvard’s Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He also co-leads the HBS MBA Program as Chair of the MBA Elective Curriculum. Previously, he headed the Accounting & Management faculty department and led the core MBA course Financial Reporting and Control.

A globally recognised expert in artificial intelligence, corporate governance, and financial reporting, Suraj Srinivasan’s research examines how data, AI, and emerging technologies are reshaping business performance, governance, and risk management. His work on AI strategy, digital transformation, and the governance of AI has been published in leading academic journals as well as the Harvard Business Review, and his case studies are widely used across business schools worldwide. He teaches Data Science for Managers and Generative AI for Business Leaders, and regularly engages with senior executives through Harvard Business School’s executive education programs.

He is a leading authority on boards and corporate governance, chairing and co-chairing several flagship Harvard Business School board-focused programs. He serves on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Harvard Business Publishing, and is Chair of the Advisory Board of Newsweek Inc. He also serves on Harvard University’s Information Security Risk Oversight Board and frequently advises boards, CEOs, and senior leadership teams on governance, financial reporting, executive compensation, and enterprise risk management.

His academic work has appeared in premier journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Management Science, where he serves as Department Editor for Accounting. He has received multiple teaching and service awards at Harvard Business School, including the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Faculty Service and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Suraj Srinivasan holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and a master’s degree in physics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and a doctorate from Harvard Business School, where he received the George S. Dively Award for outstanding doctoral research.