Mark Rennella, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Supported Higher Education sales staff by preparing highly popular curriculum/content maps on a wide array of complex business topics for business programs and professors around the globe. Accelerated and rationalized service delivery: achieved a 10xROI based on time/labor costs.Created innovative new digital products and services showcasing HBP capabilities.Created “Inside the Case” product prototype in response to the 2020 pandemic, joined a multidisciplinary team that developed a first-ever template for the production of video teaching aids for specific business cases. Created and developed innovative and immersive business class exercises for the business education market, 2020. Developed innovative, first-of-its-kind, user-friendly teaching supplements praised by business educators. Became a self-taught podcaster and audio program producer/interviewer from scratch, 2018-Present: connected skills/interests to modern digital media and audiences. Published the only originally produced audio offering for the Higher Education division of HBP to date. Strongly supported HBP strategic goal of becoming a trusted and rich source of materials for educators. Invited by HBP peers to create a mini-curriculum for business students based on HBR podcasts. Directed writing of a business case for the rapidly changing higher education market. Created coherent and powerful narrative that drove productive debate about the future of the Higher Education division while deftly navigating politically sensitive topics. Acting Senior Editor for Brief Cases, Fall 2013-Spring 2014: oversaw and directed all aspects of producing, editing, and managing the approval of individual cases by the Harvard Business School (HBS). Transitioned major $1M/year editorial program from old to new Senior Editor while increasing case production/delivery.

Cambridge, Ma

Book editor and blog writer with holistic health expert Dr. Nada Milosavljevic: researched and closely edited Holistic Health for Adolescents, published by Norton in 2016. Managed author relationship, created and posted blogs and wrote video scripts for the author’s social media sites showcasing her holistic health company, “Sage Tonic.” Editor, IXL Center, Cambridge, MA: Create original podcasts and newsletters on innovation for an innovation consulting firm. Write and edit books on innovation in fields of education, digital commerce, and sustainability. Edit all social media posts.Book editor with former tech executive and Catholic University business professor Andreas Widmer: managed author relationship, and researched, drafted, and edited forthcoming book on entrepreneurship.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

IXL Center, Cambridge, MA: Lead writer in charge of writing and revising multi-format publications. Principal writer for an International Social Enterprise Case Competition. In charge of writing “One Laptop per Child (OLpC)” case study, the centerpiece of the “Hult Prize” annual competition that crowd-sourced ideas from MBA and college students to solve pressing global social issues. Jointly created this case study that drew the world’s business students to solve problems facing the groundbreaking OLpC social enterprise technology initiative. Coordinated among many stakeholders and delivered final OLpC case study that attracted 1K business students and became the template for all future cases used by the Hult Prize competition.By 2015, 20K participants were competing for the annual Hult Prize worldwide, and President Bill Clinton announced the winners.Edited first book published by Hult, Greenovate! Later edited Hult Prize case studies, 2011-2015.The Concours Group: Administered educational research initiatives for Fortune 500 executives on information technology and human resource practices. Managed research teams investigating topics such as the convergence of business and technology, business simulations, and continuous business strategy. Administered educational research initiatives for Fortune 500 executives on information technology and human resource practices. Collaboratively produced marketing and research reports. Interviewed high-level clients. Organized executive education seminars.Research Associate, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA: Supported a Marketing Professor and then the current HBS Dean with research and editing for his book on airline industry leaders. Case writer for HBS’s Global Research Group.

Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities Created syllabus and taught seminar designed to introduce students from a variety of disciplines to the reading, writing, and research skills required of graduate-level work in the humanities. Expository WritingTaught expository writing to advanced high school juniors in the summer and to a mixed group of non-traditional students in the spring and fall semesters.

Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature • Directed and evaluated senior honors theses. • Developed and graded junior and sophomore exams. • Co-taught introductory sophomore tutorial: "History and Literature in France and America." • Acted as academic advisor for my students.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), American Studies, Cum Laude

Ph.D., American History

Master'S Degree, English Language And Literature, General

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, American Studies