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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Software published its first title, Guide to Birds of North America. The week of that first CD-ROM’s release (the company now markets seventy titles), Thayer and his wife, Roz, were spotting penguins in Antarctica, leaving their three... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: 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; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria has coauthored or coedited sixteen View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
Pentagon, a panoply of books and articles, and a pair of successful business ventures, he considers his teaching at HBS to be the highlight of his career. "I never got over the excitement of being in the classroom," says Fox, who first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
From Control to the Uncontrollable: Faculty Research Symposium Offers Range of Ideas
Members of the HBS faculty published 23 books and 157 papers and book chapters last year. In late May, the School recognized faculty achievement at the second annual Faculty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller
James Andrew Miller (MBA 1988) James Andrew Miller (MBA 1988) James Andrew Miller (MBA 1988) wrote his first bestselling book before coming to HBS: Running in Place, a behind-the-scenes look at the function—or dysfunction—of the US Senate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Above: Mountaineers Dick Burdsall and Terry Moore climbing Minya Konka, October 1932. (photographs courtesy University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives) This article relies upon Moore’s own published and unpublished accounts; letters between... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
War History
In September, with President Obama trying to rally support for military action against Syria, the media repeatedly sought out Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980), the author of eight books about American presidents. Beschloss noted that the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
$1.5 billion in assets and approximately $450 million in annual revenue, Dairyland Power employs more than 550 people and owns more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines. It’s an opportunity Nick didn’t want to pass up, as she’d just recently View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
faculty chair of the IWA Project and author of the 2022 book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. “It’s very hard to have accountability about those claims, both externally and internally, without a valuation mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
Otis Graham, the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, Thomas-Graham set her sights on writing a mystery novel set at Harvard. In 1998, Simon & Schuster published A Darker Shade of Crimson, followed by Blue Blood, set at Yale. Both... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
himself in the thick of postwar Iraqi politics. Before returning to London disheartened in May 2006, he also served as minister of defense, minister of finance, and as a member of the Transitional National Assembly. Back in London, Allawi turned his attention to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
don't think of using outsourcing in the way this book describes. If they confront the need to transform their enterprises, they should know about this tool. For consultants, this may be one of the solutions a client needs. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
data freely available. There aren't many industries that publish sales numbers on a weekly basis, for everyone to see, but the movie industry does. And when I started to analyze the data, I realized that there are fundamental problems in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
Daniel Yergin is a founding partner of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize, which chronicles oil’s rise and impact on the world. He was winding up a postdoctoral fellowship in international affairs at Harvard and was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage