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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
foster the integration of competition and corporate strategy with economic policy and social development in ways that not only advance theory but also connect with actual practice," Porter observed. "It will be a vehicle for partnering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should be making. His View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Competition represent the full scope of Porter's work on competition and strategy; assembled in a single volume, his ideas gain added strength and significance. Bridging economic theory and management practice, the book provides a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
have an impact on business managers on an everyday basis. In essence, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Mayo. Mayo, who spearheaded the legacy project along with HBS professor Nitin Nohria, notes that the... 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of a good fit in handshakes and CVs—it seemed so, well,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
intended both to improve the oper-ation of business by linking economic theory with practice and to serve as a showpiece for HBS research. The magazine's first decades were marked by financial losses. But in the late 1940s the School took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
permitting. And it is aboard where we will be schooled in herpetology, ornithology, and vulcanology, and be offered a taste of the theory of evolution. With our appetites whetted by science lessons, the real learning comes on the islands... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
conflicts in both theory and political sensitivity: Should Midwest motorists have to pay a price for gasoline that includes a questionable element for environmental impact? The opposition would rise when this “externality” is seen to pay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
degree’s relevance, asserting that programs have drifted too far into theory that has relatively little use in practice. And they fault business schools for turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all else.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
a syllabus and course outline, and using established educational theory in practical situations. Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable by Darria Long Gillespie Da Capo... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Unlike some consultancies, Prysm is industry-agnostic. Rather than working in siloed practice areas like transportation or financial services, Barrera and Hurder use their understanding of fundamental economic principles—and their technical expertise in disciplines... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his 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
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
nature of promising start-ups, the evolution of fledgling businesses, and the societal implications of new businesses. Using a thorough, analytical approach, Bhidé applies more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean