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- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
become apparent," Thomke elaborated, "rather than out in the real world, where millions of dollars are potentially at stake. They get a lot of theory in class, but here they learn by doing." Indeed, some of the eighty students may well... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Competition represent the full scope of Porter's work on competition and strategy; assembled in a single volume, his ideas gain added strength and significance. Bridging economic theory and management practice, the book provides a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
have an impact on business managers on an everyday basis. In essence, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Mayo. Mayo, who spearheaded the legacy project along with HBS professor Nitin Nohria, notes that the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
approachable easily consumable and highly relatable—they can help listeners understand what makes HBS distinctive and how it’s making a difference in the world.” Brian Kenny Chief Marketing & Communications Officer “The Disruptive Voice” explores the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis 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
- 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 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Relationships edited by Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery (Routledge) Senior Lecturer Jill Avery and her coeditors have produced a successor to their groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice. It is... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
teaching on the fly. “This is a lab for establishing new theories that could affect the rest of the planet,” Khan told Wired magazine recently. “The whole point is to catalyze change.” To learn more, read the complete article. View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
authors show managers how to use theory — statements of what causes what, why, and when — to make the process of creating new growth businesses more predictable. Using real-life examples of companies from a wide range of industries, the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
exchanges, McKenney says. The Institute’s founders consider the SIP an “innovation in progress,” a way to test theories about how best to bring timely research insights to those both on and off campus. “They were testing, iterating,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
boundaries and making the relationship between organizations and markets much more complex." To address such complexities, Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, presents a new, integrated theory of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
in three two-week modules. The first two modules take place in Johannesburg and the third in Boston. Between sessions, participants return to their workplaces to test out the new theories and practices they've learned. With participants... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
high-performing salesmanship, right? And so then the theory behind that could be that we know that people that are somewhat inattentive tend to be more creative. So maybe that's why, because there's a creative element to the sales... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
“In addition, corporations are not a homogenous group, as the theories of profit maximization assume; not all corporations have the same role in society, and many of the largest corporations have more of their activities put to the test... View Details
- 01 Apr 2009
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