Mark Hatzenbuehler
Senior Advisor
Cambridge Family Enterprise Group
Mark Hatzenbuehler is a senior advisor at Cambridge Advisors to Family Enterprise, a highly specialized, international advisory firm serving family enterprises. Cambridge Advisors and Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise, an education and research institute, are divisions of Cambridge Family Enterprise Group, a global organization founded in 1989. It is devoted to helping families and ownership groups navigate the new economy and achieve multigenerational success for their families, enterprises, and financial wealth.
Dr. Hatzenbuehler advises family-owned enterprises on strategies for navigating conflict, understanding family systems and interpersonal dynamics, developing skills in the communication of emotions and values, and promoting engagement and connection. In his work, Dr. Hatzenbuehler helps develop individual family members for various leadership roles to prepare them to become effective stewards of the family enterprise. He empowers families to approach challenges with the creativity and confidence necessary to contend with short-term demands without losing sight of long-term values. Through his extensive training as a psychologist, Dr. Hatzenbuehler also supports multi-generational families in productive dialogue around complex historical dynamics, enabling them to build and model family unity for the next generation. In his own family’s sixth-generation business, he has served in several leadership roles, including president of the Family Council and as a facilitator and executive coach.
Dr. Hatzenbuehler is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard, where he directs a lab that studies the health effects of various forms of stigma and discrimination. He received the 2023 Gold Medal Award from the American Psychological Foundation, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the field. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the premier honorary organization for scientists working at the intersection of behavior and medicine, and was voted a favorite professor by the Harvard Class of 2023.
Dr. Hatzenbuehler received his PhD in clinical psychology and his BA in Religious Studies from Yale University.
