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Richard G. Hamermesh
Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative and of the HBS/Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. As chair of the Healthcare Initiative, Richard was instrumental in expanding the role of healthcare in MBA education and research. Today, over 12% of students...
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Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia in 1971 and 1976 respectively. He came to the Harvard Business School on a fellowship in 1978 and joined the faculty in 1979. From 1979...
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Richard L. Nolan
Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information Technology manager in the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company 737 Program. In 1968, he joined the Harvard Business School as an Associate...
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Richard S. Ruback
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially on corporate-control transactions and valuation. His course development work parallels his research interests. He has taught a variety of corporate finance courses...
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Richard H.K. Vietor
Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri at Columbia. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A....
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Richard F. Meyer
Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a consultant to major corporations both in the U.S. and in Europe. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since...
Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.
Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Date: April 17-18, 2008 Faculty Chair: Richard S. Tedlow Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: The Intellectual History of the Harvard Business School: Six Case Studies What were... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
rules which did not make sense to him—which meant almost all of them. —Richard S. Tedlow Walton seemed to have a lot of strikes against him. But he was a spectacular success in his first store.... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Ruback
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape that had been Flushing Meadows... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Reynolds
Believing that aluminum was the metal of the future, R. S. Reynolds devoted his metal company’s efforts to its production, despite slow growth of the product in the 1910s. However, because of Reynolds’ foresight, the company flourished... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.
After a successful, but brief career in investment banking, Richard Jr. joined his father's company in 1938. Under his leadership, Reynolds Corporation expanded tremendously, buying more government plants and establishing facilities... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 28 Jan 2010
- News
Business historian Richard Tedlow discusses dealing with denial
Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Fuld took the helm of Lehman Brothers when it was spun-off by American Express in 1994. Over the next ten years, he transformed the small bond trading firm into one of the most respected full service investment banking and brokerage firms on Wall Street. While many... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
Ford was in many ways a brilliant man. But he was painfully unaware of his blind spots. This ignorance cost him and his company a great deal. Don’t let the same happen to you. — HBS professor Richard S.... View Details
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Nothing to See Here: Richard Tedlow Explains Why So Many CEOs Refuse to Confront the Truth
The article presents an interview with business historian Richard Tedlow on the topic of why chief executive officers (CEOs) sometimes refuse to acknowledge data or information that indicate they need to shift their strategy. He notes that denial is a typical response... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
enforcers have made a great many mistakes over the years. But in general they have managed to move toward outcomes that have been not without economic and social benefit. Thomas McCraw and Richard Tedlow are... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing,... View Details
Ethan S. Bernstein
Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details
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All Star Paper Award
Winner of the 2001 All Star Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Economics for "Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?" (April 1992) with Paul M. Healy and Richard S. Ruback. View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article © The President and Fellows of... View Details
- 24 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased
Keywords: by Richard S. Ruback
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the... View Details
Richard L. Nolan
Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information... View Details