professorship - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2015
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How To ‘Think Outside The Building’

16 Nov 2020
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Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

27 Sep 2011
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Harvard Business School’s Rebecca Henderson Named University Professor

25 May 2016
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on boards and committees in support of the arts. He died in 1989. The brothers’ commitment to the visual arts influenced the Burden family’s philanthropic support of Harvard. In addition to Burden Hall with its cutting-edge design, the family has endowed a photography... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Oct 2021
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Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

associate professorship to support the School’s pipeline of faculty. “Associate professors are the future of the School. I want to support the next generation as they come along,” offers Melwani, who emphasizes the important role that HBS... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

as his daughter Anna and her husband, Thomas C. Nelson (MBA '88), are graduates of the School. In addition, Spangler has been deeply involved in a broad range of HBS activities and was a 1988 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. An HBS View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

04 May 2013
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James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985

For Jamie Dinan and Elizabeth Miller, endowing the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professorship of Business Management as a 25th Reunion gift was one more significant step along a mutual journey. Dinan, the founder, chairman, and... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

an acclaimed course designed to improve students' ability to understand and work with others. In 1968 the Ford Foundation granted Turner a visiting professorship at the Indian Institute of Management, where he advised faculty on course... View Details

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

High Distinction (1979) and a DBA (1992) from Harvard Business School. He was granted tenure at the School in 1998 and named to a chaired professorship in 2001. “Clayton Christensen was one of the world’s greatest scholars on innovation... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer

At a special reception in New York City in early March, a distinguished group of friends, relatives, and admirers of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) gathered at the home of Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57) to consider plans for the creation of a Harvard Business... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74

Dean in 1980, he held the Ford Professorship for another year before leaving the faculty. Fouraker received Harvard Business School's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, in 1980. A professorship... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered

interest in me were the reasons I considered an academic career and developed a passion for research," said Porter, who holds an endowed professorship named after his mentor. Born on August 17, 1919, Christensen grew up in Iowa City and... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Recognizing the Value Proposition

he adds. “I see tremendous opportunity for collaborative partnerships now that the [Harvard John A. Paulson] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be located adjacent to HBS.” Seizing that opportunity, at the urging of his daughter, a 2004 MBA, McCance... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

game-changing ideas, these examples of pathbreaking research emerged from HBS faculty members early on in their careers. Today Porter holds the Bishop William Lawrence University Professorship and Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49

gave of those earnings at then record levels to establish the MBA Class of 1949 Professorship of Business Administration. Stressing that the class provides solid role models for today’s leaders, Callahan gives detailed accounts of eight... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

efforts to make the inner city a viable and competitive economic entity," says University Professor Michael E. Porter, who is researching economic development in America's inner cities. Dunphy has also established a fellowship fund for minority students at HBS and a... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

In a prestigious appointment with strong HBS overtones, Professor Robert C. Merton has been named the first incumbent of a new Harvard University Professorship named for John and Natty McArthur, the former Dean of HBS and his wife.... View Details

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