Boris is a professor of Business Administration in the Organisational Behaviour unit at Harvard Business School. He currently teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs.

He has won numerous awards for his research, which focuses on the challenge of managing human capital at small and large organisations across the world. Boris is author of the award-winning book Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, he has written many articles and case studies on how firms hire, engage, develop, retain, and communicate with their talented employees.

Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Boris worked at IBM.