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- 01 Mar 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out where ideas come from,” said...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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More Faculty Honors
teaching and research. Professor Joseph Bower is the coeditor of From Resource Allocation to Strategy, which was named Best Management Book of 2006 by strategy + business magazine. A book coauthored by...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
that nobody seems to remember. It is one of the most inspiring and influential books that I’ve ever read.” Excerpt “Language can affect every aspect of global organizational life. A lingua franca is the closest we have to the ‘tongues of...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion
Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the required first-year MBA course in that subject. He View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
(with Richard F. Vancil and Paul W. Marshall). He also contributed the chapter"Capital Budgeting and Long-Range Planning" to the book Progress in Operations Research. Beyond HBS, Christenson has been an active member of professional...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
McCraw Wins Prize for Biography of Economist Joseph Schumpeter
way the book “skillfully connects Schumpeter’s landmark analysis of entrepreneurship to the history of modern business enterprise.” Schumpeter (1883–1950) taught at Harvard for twenty years and spent hundreds of hours at Baker Library...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
write poetry, study Judaism, and do more pro bono work. I eventually had about forty poems published in literary journals and a book of poetry as well. After fourteen years of writing, I felt, “I’m done with...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. We march students through...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sea of Dreams
me write a book about the creation of his 187-foot, $40 million yacht. Lady Linda would be extraordinary: Her interior walls would be made from rare species of burl wood, the floors paved with onyx, and the furniture custom made. The...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
products were that easy. It's not, as is made abundantly clear by authors Scott Anthony (MBA 2001) and David Duncan, a Harvard PhD, both of management consultancy Innosight. Their point: Success over time requires continual innovation, which itself requires a system—a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977), which traces the rise of corporate management, wins a Pulitzer Prize. 1980 Michael Porter publishes Competitive Strategy, the book that launches his...
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
hardest part of writing the book? Definitely matching experts and topics. It wasn’t just a matter of choosing people with expertise; it was also finding those who could deliver the information in 600 words and make it readable, fun, and informative. Some of the obvious...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
development rendering some knowledge obsolete and a global knowledge explosion democratizing access to the rest. Titles are losing their signaling value. Autocrats of the breakfast table (a book title 150 years ago) get pushback from...
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- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
battery life, and ability to store hundreds of titles, the devices launched the e-book revolution and transformed book publishing in arguably the most significant way since Gutenberg's printing press. Russ...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Managing a Master
"And there were virtually no standards or requirements for managers. It's no wonder you'd hear about famous musicians dying penniless." Arrendell renegotiated Marsalis's contract, hired a new booking agent, and laid out a long-term career...
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Jeff Lazar
- 25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation
fellow collectors of rare records and books with sellers. His solution, the early e-commerce site Exchange.com, was sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in 1999. The second time Leschly sat down to assess his future, he again...
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