John Haigh is Faculty Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a seminar on business and government interactions to second year Master in Public Policy students (BGP-150Y), where the students write their second-year thesis. He also teaches a course on ‘Big Tech and the Importance of Competition: Public Policy in the 2020s’ (BGP-215M). He has taught a seminar on business and public policy for students in the second year of the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School joint degree program (HBS 5222) and a course on corporate citizenship and public policy (BGP-231M). He focuses on teaching general leadership and management skills along with addressing issues of competition, technology, innovation and regulation. From 2005 through 2017 he served as the Executive Dean of the Kennedy School, engaging in strategic decisions for the school and overseeing the operating and financial activities.
From 1996 through 2005 he was an officer at AT&T and subsequently AT&T Wireless, where he held a variety of strategy and leadership positions. At AT&T he initially focused on strategy and business development issues and was later promoted to President of AT&Ts International Ventures. He then was Senior Vice President of AT&T Wireless's emerging initiatives efforts developing new wireless services. Prior to joining AT&T he was at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) for 13 years, where he was a partner. His work focused on strategy issues in multiple industries including telecommunications, energy, and the environment. Haigh holds a BA from Grinnell College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and the President’s Medalist, and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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