Nabil N. El-Hage is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School in the Finance Area. He first joined the HBS faculty in 1984, immediatly after obtaining his MBA from the School, and taught the first-year required finance course in 1984-85.
Prior to returning to HBS in 2003, El-Hage gained experience in venture capital with TA Associates and Advent International, as well as on the operating side, as CFO of Back Bay Restaurant Group. He also served as Chairman and CEO of Jeepers! Inc., a private equity-financed national chain of indoor theme parks with $40 million in revenues, for nearly ten years.
El-Hage also has experience with McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he was a Research Consultant before business school.
El-Hage has served on a dozen boards of private and public companies, ranging from start-ups to over $200 million in revenues. He is currently the idependent Chairman of the MassMutual Premier Funds, and President of The Yale Club of Boston.
El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhodes Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
El-Hage lives in Weston, Massachusetts with his wife, Lucy, and their children Nelson and Bea.