Robert Higgins

Professor Emeritus of Finance at Foster School of Business

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Schools

  • Harvard Business School
  • Foster School of Business

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Biography

Foster School of Business

Education

  • PhD Stanford University (1969)
  • MBA Harvard University (1965)
  • BS Stanford University (1963)

Academic Expertise

  • risk management

Current Research

  • Corporate foreign exchange exposure

Positions Held

  • Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington since 2011
  • At the University of Washington since 1967
  • Visiting Professor at Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany, 1995, & 1999
  • Visiting Professor at University of Virginia, 1992-1993
  • Visiting Professor at IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974-1975
  • Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford, 1972

Honors and Awards

  • Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in Case Development and Curriculum Innovation, 2008
  • Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, North America option, 2008
  • Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, Regional option, 2006, & 2008
  • Evening MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Winter, 2005
  • PACCAR Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003
  • MBA Elective Professor of the Year, 2003
  • MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Winter, 2003
  • UW Alumni Fund Award, Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, 1991
  • Seven MBA Professor of the Year Awards
  • Five EMBA Excellence in Teaching Awards

Academic Service

  • Academic director of MBA programs, 1996-1999
  • Education director of Pacific Coast Banking School, 1984-2995
  • Associate Dean for Academic Programs, 1984-1987
  • Director of the Center for the Study of Financial Management, 1990-1993
  • Managing editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1979-1984
  • Associate Editor of Global Finance Journal, 1989-1991

Harvard Business School

Bob Higgins is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and a Founder and General Partner at Causeway Media Partners. Causeway is focused on backing young growth companies in sports media. Bob is also Founding Partner at Highland Capital Partners.  He created and currently teaches a course in the EC called Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS).  For several years, Bob taught the first year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager.  He is a member of the Health Care Initiative, the Social Enterprise Initiative, and the Harvard Faculty Committee for the MD/MBA program. In addition, he has served as a director of the National Venture Capital Association and as President of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Earlier, he was the Executive Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation in New York, a private foundation that supports programs in medical research and health care management.  He managed two other New York foundations prior to the Hartford Foundation: the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Florence Vanderbilt Burden Foundation.

From 1971 to 1973,  Bob served in Washington as the Assistant to the head of the International Division of the Treasury and as Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce.  Prior to going to Washington, he was on active duty in the Army as an officer at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Bob is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He was graduated from the Harvard Business School and Harvard College.

 

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