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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral seminar on the Theory of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
several MIT professors, I cofounded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a technology company where I served as chairman and president until I earned my DBA and joined the HBS faculty in 1992. It was really my time with that company that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Kim B. Clark called Merton a "terrific choice" for the McArthur University Professorship. "His interests have natural connections with faculty and students in different parts of Harvard," Clark said. "His research is at the forefront of his field, he joins View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that those who do MBAs will end up leaving the service. The system reacted against it; they said: ‘You do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
School, not an MBA from HBS. “Oh, there was tremendous pressure put on me to do the MPA,” Yeo told Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that those who do MBAs will end up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
achieve sustained high commitment and high performance. Basing his approach on leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to build a complete system that will spell business success no matter how challenging the economic climate.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, which analyzes the world's financial institutions, Professor Merton addressed seminar participants - including HBS faculty, research associates, and students - on behalf of the School's Global Financial View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
emerging markets’ potential and crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) A field long... 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 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 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in America’s executive suites. Two View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
discipline. It comes in a mess, and we try to figure out how to understand it, and how to deal with it. What the world most needs going forward is integrative, holistic, and systemic thinking. The challenge for the School is how to keep... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna