13 Facts About Debora Spar

Debora L Spar is the current Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School Online and former President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women of Columbia University.

Debora Spar was appointed Barnard's 7th president in July 2008 and replaced Judith Shapiro, Barnard's 6th president, after a teaching career at Harvard Business School where she was Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development.

Debora Spar was appointed the 10th president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, beginning in March 2017, but announced her resignation in April 2018 after only about one year in the position.

Debora Spar became the new Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School Online in January 2020.

Debora Spar has written about the economics of the human fertility industry and the evolution of the Internet.

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Debora Spar has appeared on 60 Minutes, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, ABC World News Tonight, and in many newspapers and magazines.

Debora Spar was the first academic to mention fertility as a transaction through a business framework.

In various interviews online, Debora Spar said that when she picked up the research topic of fertility through an economic lens, her colleagues did not take her seriously and called her soft.

Debora Spar followed up in 2006 with a book named The Hidden Market for Babies.

Debora Spar has written about AIDS, African economics, the global economy, the balance of power, and terrorism.

Debora Spar spearheaded the initiative in Rwanda, where cabinet members learned about executive education.

Debora Spar followed up on this goal by converting BLI into Barnard's Athena Center for Leadership Studies.

Debora Spar served as a member of the Board of Directors of American investment bank Goldman Sachs from June 2011 to April 2017.