Ray Weaver

Ray Weaver is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the first-year MBA course in marketing. His research focuses on social learning: the ways and extent to which people determine their wants and needs using information from the social environment. In addition to his academic career, Ray has held several positions at consulting and information technology firms, concentrating on the marketing of new technologies.

Most recently, Ray worked for Akamai, a Cambridge-based Internet infrastructure services company. As Akamai’s first marketing employee, he played a key role in shaping the company’s brand and marketing strategy during its rapid growth from no revenue to over $90M in its first full year of operations. Ray was Product Manager for Akamai’s first offering, and later Director of Product Marketing for its rich media product. He worked with customers from a wide variety of industries including media, entertainment and electronic commerce.

Prior to Akamai, Ray was a member of Intel’s mobile products group in Santa Clara. There, he helped launch Bluetooth and other wireless communications technologies. Ray also worked in the Chicago office of Deloitte Consulting. At Deloitte, he designed information systems for clients in the health care and transportation industries.

Ray received his Ph.D. in management science from MIT. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar; and B.S. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, at which he was a Woodward Fellow.