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Vice President and Director, Harvard Business School Press

General Management

Harvard Business School Publishing

David Goehring, 53, has been named Vice President and Director of Harvard Business School Press, the book publishing unit of Harvard Business School Publishing, effective October 27, 2003. Goehring is a highly regarded publishing professional, who over the past five years led the growth of Perseus Publishing with numerous market-leading books and key strategic acquisitions and publishing partnerships while skillfully managing operations for increased profitability. Prior to running Perseus, Goehring spent a decade at Addison Wesley Longman (Pearson), directing its General Publishing Group. Goehring succeeds Carol Franco, formerly Vice President and Director of HBS Press. Franco will assume the role of Editor-at-Large for Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), a corporate position responsible for identifying new ideas and authors suitable for publication across HBSP’s varied publishing platforms. Goehring was nominated by Literary Marketplace as Publisher of the Year in 1996 for the many bestsellers, award winners, and category-leading books he published while VP and Publisher of Addison Wesley Longman. A few of the more noteworthy books he published were The Temple Bombing (Melissa Fay Greene), Mama Makes Up Her Mind (Bailey White), and Salvation on Sand Mountain (Dennis Covington). He also led the company’s strategic redesign and refocusing of its product portfolio, resulting in significantly improved financial results as well. Goehring also served as Vice President and Director of Retail Sales and Marketing at Addison Wesley Longman. Earlier, he served first as Director of Sales and then as Director of Marketing for Little, Brown & Company, where he led campaigns for numerous successful books, including Blue Highways (William Least Heat Moon), Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, and The Winds of War (Herman Wouk). He began his publishing career at Simon and Schuster, becoming National Sales Manager before moving to Little, Brown. David Goehring holds a BA in English from Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1972 and an MA in English from the University of Michigan, which he earned in 1974.

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