Regina M. Abrami

Regina Abrami is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, with primary expertise in comparative political economy. Her research focuses on the political economy of entrepreneurship, national industrial strategy, and emerging markets, with emphasis on China and Vietnam. She is a frequent commentator on managing in a global context, and most recently in regard to the globalization of Chinese companies, Chinese industrial policy, and the relation between political and economic institutional development and business strategy.

At HBS, Dr. Abrami has taught in the MBA, executive education, and doctoral programs, including the required MBA course, "Business, Government, and the International Economy," a doctoral course, "The Political Economy of Business in the Developing World," and an elective course, “Doing Business in China,” that she designed and has taught for several years. Dr. Abrami is on the executive committee of Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and is a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. From 2008-2011, she served as the faculty chair of HBS’s inaugural MBA international field immersion program, the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), and remains active in the field of experiential education. She also designed and has led several January term immersion programs to China and Vietnam.

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. In addition, she has received support from the Social Science Research Council, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, the Institute of World Politics, and Fulbright. HBS honors include selection as a Hellman Faculty Fellow, awarded for distinction in research, and the Robert F. Greenhill Award, given in recognition of distinguished service. Dr. Abrami speaks Vietnamese and Chinese, and has lived and conducted research in several Asian countries.