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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
the newest member of the Service Management unit, joined the faculty last year. In research that covers human resources and operations management, she has studied the impact of processes on organizations. Gittell is currently using the patient-care industry as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
light-water nuclear plants, the young scientists' reactor runs on radioactive fuel dissolved into liquid molten salt. In theory at least, that means it can use nuclear waste from conventional plants as fuel and that it needs no active,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
had to be a different answer. My first book on this topic, The Innovator’s Dilemma, explored my theory that developing advanced technologies is rarely the primary challenge for leading firms. Rather, the stumbling block lies in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
Or in the lower right one? There we find what separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. In that HBS faculty meeting on the morning of September 12, 2001, the message Frances heard was: class is important. In this moment of tragic destabilization, routine is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What are parents’ View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
Hayes III, who, with Frank E. Vogel, an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, is the coauthor of Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return. The book explains the theory behind Islamic religious law and contemporary practice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
most storied multinationals in the West have, by and large, fallen flat on their face. There are some exceptions, but not a huge number. I have a theory of why this is the case. If you come in and say, “I need to sell you soap,” you may... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
senior associate dean for International Development. “More importantly, in an insidious way, we never acknowledged that the concepts and theories we were teaching students really were based only on US data. We were teaching them as if... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
those students whose perspectives could take a case discussion to the next level. Andreas was fascinated with management theories and brought a great deal of enthusiasm to the classroom." After completing the AMP, Andresen faced the... 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 Dec 2013
- News
Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship
SEEDING LEADERSHIP: "If we give the next generation good theories they might provide us with better leadership in the future," Christensen told the crowd. Photo courtesy of University of Oxford HBS professor Clayton Christensen, a former... 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 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
and Marco Iansiti (both HBS) will focus on the theory and practice of responsible AI for facilitating data-driven decision-making in organizations. They will explore how people use AI tools and machine learning (ML) models in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
to know that across the country, the population of ethnic consumers was growing. “I’ve always subscribed to the theory that trends are like horses,” adds Scharfman. “It’s easier to ride them in the direction they’re already going.”... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
among people with various fitness activities, and one theory is that, when we engage in fitness activities with friends, we get more of a benefit than when we do it alone. DM: This means the pickleball generation is in good shape then.... View Details
- 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 Dec 2000
- News
Books
analysis of the differing perspectives. As a result of the conference, Beer and Nohria have mapped out two dominant and conflicting archetypal theories of change. Theory E is based on the creation of... View Details