Len Schlesinger

Leonard "Len" Schlesinger returned to the Harvard Business School as a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration in July of 2013 after concluding a five-year term as the 12th president of Babson College. At HBS he teaches the first year MBA required courses Leadership and Corporate Accountability and FIELD 3 (Integrative Intelligence) and a second year elective course General Management: Processes and Action. At Babson he successfully managed the challenges of improving academic, reputational, and financial outcomes for the college. The school simultaneously has been ranked as the #1 institution for entrepreneurship for both its Undergraduate and Graduate programs by both Business Week and U.S. News and World Reports for the entire history of their reporting, i.e., 20 years at the Graduate level for U.S. News, for example.