• 15 Sep 2003
• Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

• 27 Oct 2021
• News

Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Richard Walton Dies at the Age of 90

• 29 May 2009
• Research Event

Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Joseph L. Bower, HBS faculty... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower

Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, where she is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair of the... View Details

• 07 Jun 2024
• Video

Harvard MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Info Session

Adi Sunderam

Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry

• 01 Jan 2002
• News

• 15 Mar 2017
• News

What's Your Favorite Case to Teach?

• 15 Mar 2021
• Video

Doctoral Campus Favorites

• 23 Jun 2016
• News

Brexit: Should Britain Stay Or Should It Go?

Robert S. Kaplan

Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry

• 20 Oct 2008
• Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business management revolution among academics and practitioners when it was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

• 2011
• Chapter

On Knowing and Doing: A Perspective on the Synergies between Research and Practice

By: Michael Tushman

The current rigor/relevance debate is a central strategic issue for business schools and their faculty. I argue that ongoing relationships with firms, rooted on the joint acknowledgement of the importance of faculty research by firms and respect for practice by... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Education; Executive Education; Practice; Relationships; Research

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Tushman, Michael. "On Knowing and Doing: A Perspective on the Synergies between Research and Practice." In Useful Research: Advancing Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman and Edward E. Lawler III. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011.