Steven Strauss, Ph.D.

Summer 2026 teaching Management Consulting in the Age of AI and Innovating with GAI for Leaders and Managers at Harvard Summer Program,From 2011-2025 John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Currently teaching in Harvard's Summer Program on Innovating with GAI for Leaders and Managers. From 2014 - 2025, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Some prior holders of this professorship include: Jon Corzine (former governor of New Jersey and U.S. senator), Hugh B. Price (former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League), Joshua Bolten (former White House Chief of Staff) and Anthony Shorris (previously the First Deputy Mayor of NYC). This professorship supports bringing distinguished visitors in the areas of economics and public policy to the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Strauss is a civic and private sector leader who has worked on management/innovation in the public and private sectors. He has been quoted, cited and/or interviewed by: Fareed Zakaria, CNBC, CBS and other major media. He has contributed OpEds at the LATimes, Salon, The Huffington Post, Project-Syndicate and as well as other media organizations Geographically he has worked on projects in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia on topics such as: Economic Development, Software, the Sharing/Gig economy, Technology Startups and Entrepreneurship, Financial Services Reform, Health Systems Reform, Higher Education Reform, and Investment/Risk Management (including work for one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds).

Experience

  • Instructor at Harvard Summer School
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    This summer ay Harvard I will be teaching two courses (for graduates students in Management and/or Exec Ed) on working with AI: 1) Management Consulting in the Age of AI https://courses.dce.harvard.edu/?details&srcdb=202603&crn=36188 2) And Innovating with Generative AI for Leaders and Managers https://courses.dce.harvard.edu/?details&srcdb=202603&crn=36053 Details (course descriptions, time and places, etc.) are in the links.

  • Member Board of Contributors at USA TODAY
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Other members include Donna Brazile, Sally Kohn, Tom Nichols, Wendy Sherman, Andy Slavitt, and for the complete list, please see: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/12/usa-today-board-of-contributors-opinion-columns/2601030001/

  • Advisory Board - The Sustainable Media Center at The Sustainable Media Center
    Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    The Center was founded by Steve Rosenbaum, among the other advisors are: Richard Stengel / Former Under Secretary of State in the Obama admin. Former editor of TIME; Baratunde Thurston / Executive Producer & Host of How To Citizen with Baratunde; Lawrence Lessig - Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership | Harvard Law School; Anya Schiffrin / Columbia University /SIPA | Director: Open Society Foundations; Esther Dyson / executive founder at Wellville; Eric Gertler - Exec. Chair, U.S. News & World Report; Ulysses Ventures; Tara Bahl / Content Strategy and Programming at Paramount+; Dawn Barber - Co-Founder, NYC Tech Meeetup For the mission statement, please see: https://sustainablemedia.center/mission-statement/ For the full advisory board: https://sustainablemedia.center/advisors/

  • Instructor at Harvard University
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    Teaching a three week 36 class hours (3 hours a day/4 days a week) intensive course on Leading and Innovating with Generative AI for Leaders and Managers.

  • John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton University
    Jul 2014 - Jul 2025 · 11 yrs 1 mo