Senior Fellow
Harvard Business School
Regina Abrami is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and
Faculty Chair of the Immersion Experience Program (IXP). In addition, she
is on the executive committee of Harvard University's Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies, a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, and a member of the Pacific Council on International
Policy and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Dr. Abrami speaks Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese, and is a
frequent commentator on the challenges of managing in a global context,
especially with regard to China's impact on global business and doing business
in Vietnam and China. At HBS, Dr. Abrami has taught courses in the MBA,
executive education, and doctoral programs, including the first year required
course, "Business, Government, and the International Economy” and a
doctoral course on "The Political Economy of Business in the Developing
World." She also designed and continues to teach the “Doing Business
in China” course.
Her current research focuses on the politics of industrial
strategy, economic growth and development within closed political systems,
and the impact of institutions of valuation, including standard-setting
and ranking systems, on social order and market access. Dr. Abrami
earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California,
Berkeley, where she was both a Reinhard Bendix and John L. Simpson Memorial
Fellow. More recent HBS honors include selection as a Hellman Faculty
Fellow and the Robert F. Greenhill Award.