Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
John Macomber is a senior lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School (HBS). His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. He is co-author of the book “Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity.” At HBS, Macomber’s work focuses on the future of cities, particularly as aided by the private finance and delivery of8 public infrastructure projects in both the developed and emerging worlds. His teaching combines infrastructure finance (including public–private partnerships), investing in resilience (notably in the face of sea rise in some areas and drought in others), economic development, and the impact of new technologies in delivering new infrastructure and making old infrastructure more efficient.
Macomber is faculty chair of the HBS Africa Research Center. He is also engaged in the Business and Environment Initiative and Social Enterprise Initiatives at HBS and is a member of the executive committee of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He teaches finance, real estate, urbanization, and entrepreneurship courses in the elective curriculum and in executive education.
Macomber is the former chair and CEO of the George B H Macomber Company, a large regional general contractor, and remains a principal in several real estate partnerships. He serves or has served on the boards of Young Presidents Organization International, Boston Private Bank, Mount Auburn Hospital, and the WGBH Educational Foundation. Macomber graduated from Dartmouth College (mathematics in the social sciences) and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
