Moffett Professor of Agriculture & Business, Harvard Business School, Emeritus
1997–present
Professor for Food Policy Course at the Kennedy School of Government, 1997–present
Honorary Professor and a Member of the Royal Agriculture College of England and Wales, 1996–present
Coordinator of the University-wide Seminar, Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee (PAPSAC), 1994–present
Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, and Head of the Agribusiness Program, Harvard Business School, 1970-1997
Associate Professor, 1966-1970
Assistant Professor, 1960-1966
Assistant Professor 1955-57
PhD University of Minnesota, 1952
MBA Harvard Business School, 1950
AB Cum Laude Harvard College, 1948
V.I. Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Vaskhnil), Foreign Member, 1988
Founding Member and First President (IAMA) International Agribusiness Management
Association, 1990-92
Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Applied & Agricultural Economics,
University of Minnesota, 1992
Honorary Doctorate of Political Science, University of Buenos Aires Argentina, 2000
Distinguished Service Award, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration,
2001
Fellow, International Agribusiness Management Association, 2004
Ray Goldberg has contributed to agricultural economics through his pathbreaking works of A Concept of Agribusiness, co-authored with John Davis and his authorship of Agribusiness Co-ordination--A Systems Approach To The Wheat, Soybean, and Florida Orange Economies. Having grown up in the depression years in his home state of North Dakota, he recognized early-on that what people received for producing food and what people paid for consuming food were political as well as economic issues. The global food system is the largest quasi-public utility in the world. To analyze this system required a multi-disciplined, multi-functional approach. He has collaborated with faculty leaders from the Medical School, School of Public Health, Government, Economics, Biochemistry Departments and Harvard Business School, as well as visiting faculty and government leaders in developing his authoring, co-authorship, or editorship of 23 books, 110 articles and over 1000 case studies. He acts as the Coordinator of Harvard’s Food Policy Group (PAPSAC) which brings together scientists, educators, business and farm leaders, governmental authorities and consumer advocates to assist the food system in evaluating the various impacts of technological change on nutritional, environmental, economic development and safety concerns.