Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within HBS Executive Education, he teaches in open-enrollment programs and chairs custom programs on competitive advantage, global strategic management, and corporate-level strategy.
Professor Alcacer received the Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2019 for his work on Field Global Immersion, a required, experiential MBA course that develops students’ global intelligence and teamwork skills. [Each year, the course brings 900 students to 15 cities around the world to work on a product or service challenge]. Professor Alcacer also received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2003 at Stern Business School, New York University.
Professor Alcacer’s research and course development interests are in strategy, growth and innovation. His recent research focuses on growth and exit strategies, strategies to cope with major shifts in the environment (such as Brexit) and strategic decision-making under geopolitical and technological uncertainty. His early research examines location strategies, outsourcing, management of value chains across countries and global supplier-buyer relationships. He also studies cluster-based innovation and global intellectual property (IP) issues, with emphasis on the patent systems across countries. He has published his research in the American Journal of Sociology, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and Journal of International Business.