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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
added to his MBA fellowship fund, which has benefited about 50 students from the San Francisco area since it was established in 1990. “HBS aims to be close to practice,” says Tukman. “Often in business, practice leads the way and theory... View Details
- 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 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
to endow a professorship at HBS. "Harvard Business School has been very important in my life," he continues. "My experience there was the realization of a lifelong dream. I am delighted to be able to make a gesture that underscores the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... 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
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
there for the Battle of Raqqa in the summer of 2017, which is where the book starts. I had my first experience interviewing one of the commanders then, who was walking around like she’s in Central Park but pointing at a car bomb that was... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
brings a group together in an online forum to solve a specified "challenge." The participating HBS alumni researched the issues of long-term growth and job creation, generated theories of and potential solutions for the issue, and refined... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
feedback loop. JF: In some ways, it sounds as if you're almost extending the Reach University theory of change, theory of intervention, and trying to expand that to incorporate other employers—private-sector... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
throughlines he’s found is community joy and how strengthening the foundations of that experience can help societies sustain and succeed in challenging times. And in this episode of Skydeck, Justin and I talk about the five pillars of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
mornings-only class schedule, she spent the afternoons working retail at an athletic clothing shop. “I think it planted an entrepreneurial seed in me. I loved the hands-on aspect to it, I loved how you could see the results of what you do,” she says. After an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
night shift took over my bunk while I was observing and interviewing the day shift. The food was great, and most of the time I arrived and departed by helicopter.” Looking back on the project, she rates it “the best field research View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
was no disputing the significance of Levitt’s contribution to the theory and practice of global marketing and to the ongoing assessment of its impact. As HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow noted of Levitt’s work, “It’s all in the question,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
we don’t acknowledge them, we’re in for trouble. Convergence is the theory that all nations will eventually gravitate toward some form of capitalist, democratic free enterprise. When former State Department policy planner Francis Fukuyama... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose 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