Gareth Olds is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the required first-year Entrepreneurial Manager MBA course. He earned his PhD in Economics at Brown University in 2014, where he received the Merit Dissertation Fellowship, the National Science Foundation’s IGERT Fellowship (for an interdisciplinary program on poverty and inequality), and the Graduate Teaching Award. He also holds an A.M. from Brown University and a BA from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is originally from Anchorage, Alaska.