Professor Harris teaches courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Economics of the European Union, Entrepreneurship, and Economics of the Environment. His primary research interests include transitional economies of Eastern Europe, Entrepreneurship and the Environment, and regional growth theory. He has also written several cases for use in the Management Core Program at Babson.

Prof. Harris is the former President of NCS Medical Systems and former Vice President of Boston Computer Systems. He taught economics at UMass-Amherst and Bentley University before coming to Babson in 1983.