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- 01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
of the theory you can imagine but never anything practical." Upon graduation, Hoa returned to Hanoi to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Press Center. There, she caught the eye of personnel from Harvard's Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
members to test out theories and analyze results that often lead to breakthrough ideas. Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Web 1.0 1990–2005 Web 2.0 2005–Present Web... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and any changes in people’s connectedness to their communities. On the impact side, we know what the buckets are; the work now is to connect our theories of change and the way that we make investments in portfolio companies with these... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Jobs and the Worker, challenged management theories then in vogue by suggesting that jobs should be designed around people's needs, an idea that has gained popularity in recent years. Turner's greatest rewards, however, have come from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
financial theory but also has important implications for the character and performance of the global financial system. Bob's is a voice of leadership that speaks at once to the academy and the world of practice." READ MORE "Economists are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Merton Receives Prestigious Award
University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice." The authors study race relations in the organization using the conceptual frameworks of intergroup and psychoanalytic theory. Intergroup View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
and in her family life. “It’s a fascinating theory and one I think about a lot, in terms of how it potentially applies within Pharma,” she said. “What inspires me most about Clay though is how he has applied this same View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
authors show managers how to use theory — statements of what causes what, why, and when — to make the process of creating new growth businesses more predictable. Using real-life examples of companies from a wide range of industries, the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
teaching on the fly. “This is a lab for establishing new theories that could affect the rest of the planet,” Khan told Wired magazine recently. “The whole point is to catalyze change.” To learn more, read the complete article. View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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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 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful to both social scientists and managers."... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
or adaptive organism, there are changes. Karl Marx, while he was wrong about almost everything, was actually right on at least one thing — the labor theory of value. What matters most is the people in your company, more than the capital,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Carliss Baldwin first enrolled at HBS, her goal was to work on Wall Street. But things did not go exactly as planned. "During my last year at MIT," she explains, "I had taken some courses from [current HBS professor] Bob Merton on the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details