Madhav Kumar

Madhav Kumar is an accomplished academic currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School since July 2025. Prior to this role, Madhav held a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management from June 2022 to June 2025. Madhav's professional experience includes internships at Microsoft and Stitch Fix, focusing on key areas such as recommendation systems and treatment effect estimation. Earlier in the career, Madhav worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) from September 2014 to June 2016. Madhav earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completed in June 2022, and holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, obtained in January 2011.