Clayton S. Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. From 2015 until 2023 he served as the fifteenth President of Bowdoin College. Prior to this, he was a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School, where he focused on issues of leadership, managerial responsibility, ethics, and the role of business in society. Before joining the HBS faculty, Rose was a senior executive at J.P. Morgan. He is also a member of the board of directors of Bank of America and The Pew Charitable Trusts. 

Rose earned both his undergraduate degree and MBA at the University of Chicago. After a twenty-year leadership and management career in finance, he earned a PhD with distinction in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Rose was elected a Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2009 and became Chair in 2020.