Faculty at Harvard Business School; Expert in Strategy, Execution, Customer Service and Brand Loyalty

Boston, MA, USA
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Jeffrey Rayport Biography

Jeffrey F. Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs.

Prior to HBS, Rayport was as an operating partner at Castanea Partners, a private equity firm specializing in retail and consumer brands. He was founder and CEO of Marketspace LLC, a digital advisory firm, and co-founder of Monitor Executive Development, a custom education business. He was a Senior Partner at Monitor Deloitte. Rayport was also a co-founder of several corporate universities, including at Omnicom Group, Bertelsmann AG, and Amgen.

Earlier in his career, Rayport was a faculty member at HBS for nearly a decade. While at HBS, he developed the first MBA-level e-commerce course in the US, enrolling nearly a thousand MBAs. In creating the course, Rayport authored over a hundred case studies, articles, and notes. Business plans written by students in his course gave rise to many start-ups, including Yahoo!

Prior to his leave from HBS, Rayport coined the concept/term “viral marketing.” He was also voted Outstanding Professor for three years in a row by the HBS Students Association.

Rayport has published a series of leading MBA-level textbooks on strategy in the networked economy with McGraw-Hill and also a bestseller with Harvard Business Press on reinventing service businesses. He has been a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his writing has appeared in CIO, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes.com, CBS MarketWatch, McKinsey Quarterly, Strategy & Business, and MIT Technology Review.

He has served as a director of public and private corporations, including AGENCY.com (ACOM), Andrews McMeel Universal; Be Free (BFRE); CBS MarketWatch (MKTW), Conversant (CNVR); GSI Commerce (GSIC), iCrossing, International Data Group; Hanley Wood; MediaMath; Linkwell Health; Monster Worldwide (MWW); Receptiv; and Shoprunner. He is a trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and a trustee of WGBH in Boston, MA; chair of the board of From the Top (the #1 U.S. classical music radio and TV program, distributed through NPR and PBS) in Boston; and an Overseer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Rayport earned an A.B. at Harvard College; an M.Phil. in International Relations at the University of Cambridge (U.K.); and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Business History at Harvard University.

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Jeffrey Rayport Speaking Topics

  • Discussion Leadership and Facilitation

    Many senior leadership teams find themselves wanting productive leadership and facilitation when addressing current strategies or developing new ones. Others want to develop themselves or their direct reports through case study-style discussions. These sessions may have an agenda, goals, and objectives set in advance, but the ultimate outcome is, in effect, “co-created” by executives in highly interactive sessions with one another. As the founder of multiple custom corporate universities, and a three time winner of Harvard Business School’s Best Professor award, Rayport is uniquely qualified and highly experienced in leading high-impact interactive strategic planning sessions and corporate retreats

  • The Future of Service

    From digital kiosks to pop-up stores and websites to mobile sites, the automation of services has arrived. Economists long prophesized that this could never occur. Why? Because the “human factor dependency”—employees interacting with customers on the front line—was supposed to make it impossible to drive the kind of productivity gains through automation that transformed agriculture 200 years ago, manufacturing 100 years ago, and data processing 50 years ago. It is the job of every corporate leader to understand this sea-change in the delivery of services and envision how they will compete in a future governed by the intelligent division of labor between people and machines.

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Jeffrey Rayport Videos

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Jeffrey Rayport is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Discussion Leadership and Facilitation , The Future of Service , Six Essential Principles of Customer Engagement , Make Your Products Ambassadors for Your Brand, The Future of Online Business: Envisioning Next Generation e-Commerce and Big Data: The Analytics Revolution . The estimated speaking fee range to book Jeffrey Rayport for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jeffrey Rayport generally travels from Boston, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Josh Linkner, Mark C. Thompson, Michael Treacy, Tim Sanders and Don Peppers. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jeffrey Rayport for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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