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Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration (1988–98) and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor (1998–2010) at Harvard Business School. After receiving a PhD in economics from MIT in...
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Robert S. Huckman
Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for Technology and Operations Management. He currently teaches the required MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, and has previously taught several elective MBA courses, including Transforming...
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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 served as Dean from 1977 to 1983. Kaplan has co-developed both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), widely...
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Robert H. Hayes
Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from Stanford University.He has published widely, including seven co-authored books. One of these, Restoring our Competitive Edge: Competing...
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Robert J. Dolan
Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980 and became the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration. He served as the...
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Robert Simons
Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a second-year MBA course titled “Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders,” for which he has authored 23 new case studies...
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Robert F. White
Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial Finance, Starting a Private Investment Firm, Road to the White House, Elections and Campaigns, and Field Global Immersion. Bob was one of the...
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and results-driven—and it gets the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T back in 1986, when he wagered $50... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
Olivier Dumon by Robert S. Benchley "I believe in an evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process." How many of us can reduce the central truths we've... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re on the brink of a golden age in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO of Little Rock, Arkansas-based... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opens in Singapore on June 25, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) will celebrate a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point man, this first-ever gathering in Asia for graduates of all of the US service... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on the developed world, mostly in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Maiden Voyage
More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen countries—if you count the 22 members of the European Space Agency... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
Photography by Brandon Patoc You think the traffic is bad where you live? Be glad you don’t live in London, where the average driver wastes 101 hours a year—the most of any city in Europe—stuck in traffic, according to the Traffic Scorecard from INRIX, a global... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights
Photo courtesy of Jan Petzel PETZEL When Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) began his descent from the peak of Mt. Everest on May 13, 2013, each triumphant step marked the completion of three goals that had their origin during a presentation at HBS by Goldman Sachs in 2002. "The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
In May, as Khaled Al-Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011) was introducing the UAE Space Agency at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi, another launch was taking place inside the confines of the larger conference. The Harvard Business School Aerospace Alumni Group, the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms of your life, and when you are... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
Ariane Cornell Head, Astronaut Strategy and Sales, Blue Origin Cornell calls the West Texas launch and landing a “learning experience,” noting that Blue Origin is slated to reach into orbital space before the end of the decade. (courtesy Ariane Cornell) Ariane Cornell... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans thought about their safety,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government service awards from two US... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
You wouldn't think that the lowly, annoying mosquito would have anything to teach researchers working on the cutting edge of drug delivery methodology, but you would be wrong. Have you ever noticed that you don't become aware of a mosquito biting you until it's too... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I never thought of trying that,” she... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship has spanned more than four... View Details