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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
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
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... 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 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Convergence is an authoritative examination of the rapidly evolving digital environment. As they break new ground in their research, C&S faculty are promptly disseminating their research findings into publications, colloquia, and MBA and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 May 2022
- News
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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
the newest member of the Service Management unit, joined the faculty last year. In research that covers human resources and operations management, she has studied the impact of processes on organizations. Gittell is currently using the patient-care industry as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
panel discussing AI in financial services. “My objective as a founder of an AI-driven company was to ground how we actually use it,” says Salas. “I wanted to give concrete examples of how AI is enabling us to provide financial services to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
appeared in the 1934 English edition of his Theory of Economic Development. (In the original German edition of 1911, he had used the German Unternehmer, which never caught on, partly because its literal meaning is “undertaker.”) Because... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
research. Most teaching was based on business anecdotes. The remedy advocated by the report was to ground the programs in strong disciplinary knowledge. The report’s impact was swift and dramatic, writes Khurana in his sweeping history of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
senior associate dean for International Development. “More importantly, in an insidious way, we never acknowledged that the concepts and theories we were teaching students really were based only on US data. We were teaching them as if... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
times now. In the beginning, everyone looks at the ground on the way down, but when you trust yourself—jump number 10 or 20—you look up and you see the enormity and emptiness and hugeness of the sky. You don’t see limits. I tell everyone:... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
topic, aptly titled Radical Candor, was released in 2017, and she’s prepping a follow-up, which applies her theories to the topic of gender and justice at work. But on this episode of Skydeck, Scott and I start at the beginning—with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the transformation of markets. From the auction theories powering Google’s ad algorithms to the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Iris Bohnet and gender expert Siri Chilazi offer data-backed, actionable solutions that build fairness into the very fabric of the workplace. Their methods—tested at many organizations and grounded in data proven to work in the real... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
understanding of the attitude needed to manage entrepreneurially - a commitment to continuous improvement, a belief in the importance of creativity and innovation, a belief in the possibility of many options for success, and a sense of personal responsibility View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully. Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Michael Kaufman (MBA 1994) Univ. of Chicago Press Work hard in school,... View Details