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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
that use approaches like game theory will be able to better predict an attack and determine what we can do to avoid them in the first place. But A.I. will only be as good as the people who develop it. Is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
served as senior associate dean for Faculty Planning and Development and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1999. Hayes has written and published widely. Three of his articles have won McKinsey Awards for the... 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 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
globe. “Change had to start with our faculty research,” explains Palepu. “If we don’t have theories that are more globally robust, and materials that are developed using multiple contexts, and innovations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
since the end of World War II, agency theory also served to delegitimate managerial authority itself. This was a striking development to have occurred in university business schools, which owed their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
broad range of companies and industries, including Microsoft, General Electric, and L.L. Bean, the contributors address important topics such as connecting with customers, merging network infrastructures, and developing strategy. "The... 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
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
Hawkins’s theories about brain function. (“We don’t do discovery by wet lab,” Hawkins clarifies. “We’re theorists.”) One of the first theories to become a business foundation was Hawkins’s finding that the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach to market View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
of both. In their new book, HBS associate professor Adam Brandenburger and Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management develop a five-part business strategy based on this concept. Drawing from the science of game theory, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best Harvard students and himself a Nobel laureate, later wrote, “I have always thought that Schumpeter’s ambition was to develop a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
foray into building the Learning Network, one of four engagement platforms that represent an important component of the new Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). “We want to create a two-way street between our alumni and the School,” says Lakhani, who... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
way for them to put their theories into action and see what a large gap there often is between thinking about and communicating a decision,” Zuzul says. Of the fourth-semester course, Edmondson and Zuzul say their job isn’t to weed out... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
earlier research: Star performers flame out when they change firms. “This goes against the popular belief that we control our own destiny,” says Groysberg, who credits Dean Nitin Nohria and HLS professor Ashish Nanda (PhDBE 1993) as “intellectual partners” in View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
need and a pipeline that, if someone isn't working out, they're not beholden to that individual because they're a warm body. The second layer is, then, making sure they're quality. And this is where, again, it comes back to our theory of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
we can test our findings, knowledge, and theories developed elsewhere, as well as define new hypotheses that can be tested in other areas. We haven't just discovered Asia today, but we do need to strengthen... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 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