IE Brown Executive MBA

Jason Harry has over 40 years of commercial and academic experience in the medical device field and early-stage venturing. He is currently the Hugh W. Pearson ’58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering, Brown University. His teaching focus—undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels—is entrepreneurship, innovation management, and intersections between technology and business. He served for 7 years as the Director of Breakthrough Lab, a student venture accelerator in the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. 

Jason has deep experience in start-up financing, including the process of winning and managing research funding from NIH SBIR and other programs.

He received his PhD from Harvard University, Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with primary research focus in mechanical and biomedical engineering and biophysics.