Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  He chairs HBS’s Business, Government, and the International Economy unit.  He also serves as the faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Reinhardt recently taught an MBA elective course called “Twenty-First Century Energy.”  He teaches regularly in the HBS Agribusiness Seminar.  In addition, he has taught the required MBA courses on Strategy and on Business, Government, and the International Economy at HBS. 

Reinhardt studies the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. He has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics. 

Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College.