Wolff appointed Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has been appointed an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School where he will serve as guest lecturer alongside Professor Anita Elberse.

Wolff will bring to Harvard his experience in business and his high-performance leadership skills in managing one of Formula 1’s top teams, sharing his insights into organizational culture and personnel effectiveness with the venerable university’s MBA students.

Wolff’s appointment follows the Austrian’s collaboration with Harvard Business Professor Anita Elberse who embedded with the Mercedes team in 2021to observe the inner workings of the championship winning outfit, and which resulted in a case study entitled 'Toto Wolff and the Mercedes Formula One Team'.

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Throughout the 2021 F1 season, Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse gained behind-the-scenes access to the Mercedes team to observe how they prepared for, competed in and analyzed their performance in races.

The end result was a Harvard Business School case study entitled 'Toto Wolff and the Mercedes Formula One Team' which Wolff has since helped teach to MBA students on campus.

Wolff and Elberse also collaborated on a popular Harvard Business Review article 'Number One in Formula One', in which Professor Elberse shared in six lessons Wolff's leadership philosophy to help managers develop a winning culture.

In January 2024, Wolff and Elberse will team up to deliver a groundbreaking short course for both first-year and second-year MBA students, "Mercedes F1: Leading a High-Performance Team."

"I feel very honored and privileged to continue working with the incredibly bright young minds at Harvard", noted Wolff.

"Whenever I step on campus, I am inspired by the students' curiosity and ambition, and I leave energized by the special learning environment they create together with the brilliant faculty."

"We very much look forward to welcoming Toto back to campus," added Elberse.

"I have seen first-hand how much our students benefit from learning about Toto's leadership journey and from his deep knowledge of what it takes to run a highly successful sports team.

“With Toto on board, I am confident that we can make a profound positive difference in the development of the leaders of tomorrow."

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