Faculty Updates
The following faculty members have received promotions. Tarun Khanna (Strategy), Kathleen L. McGinn (Negotiation, Organizations & Markets), David A. Moss (Business, Government, and the International Economy), and Ananth Raman (Technology and Operations Management) have been promoted to Professor. George C. Chacko (Finance), Rafael M. Di Tella (Business, Government, and the International Economy), Morten T. Hansen (Organizational Behavior and General Management), Monica C. Higgins (Organizational Behavior), and Jan W. Rivkin (Strategy) have been promoted to Associate Professor.
Retirements
Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business
Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1975. An
expert in the areas of organizational effectiveness, change,
and human resource management, Beer has authored or
coauthored eight books — including, most recently, Breaking
the Code of Change (2000). He led the development of
the School's first required course in human resource management
in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human
Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource management
as a general management responsibility. He has
also taught Organizational Behavior and the Leadership, Values,
and Decision Making module in the required MBA curriculum. Beer remains involved in
the School's Executive Education efforts, as he will continue to teach in the Program for Management
Development and the Strategic Human Resource Management Program, which he
founded. Beer will also devote time to the Center for Organizational Fitness, an organization
he cofounded that helps senior managers enable a strategic change process.
William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor
in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, has retired. An authority
on entrepreneurship in general and real estate in particular,
Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management
and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS
in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, Poorvu is the author or coauthor of several
books, including The Real Estate Challenge (1996) and
The Real Estate Game (1999). His research concerns the
entrepreneurial process in large and small companies, capital
formation in real estate, and the growth and operation
of real estate companies and family businesses. Poorvu received his MBA from HBS in 1958.
He was the first person to be named an adjunct professor at the School, the first adjunct
professor to be given a named chair, and the first nontenured professor in the history of
Harvard University to be given emeritus status.
A member of the HBS faculty since 1971, Michael Y.
Yoshino is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business
Administration, Emeritus. Yoshino is an expert in the areas
of global strategy and management, competitive strategy,
and general management. He served as a director of
Research twice — from 1987 to 1994 and from 1997 to
2002. A founding member of the executive committee of
the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at
Harvard, he is a past member of the board of directors of
the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also
served on the executive committee of the Asia Center at
Harvard University (1999–2002). Yoshino has taught in the MBA Program, the Advanced
Management Program, the Program for Management Development, and the International
Senior Management Program in Switzerland. The author or coauthor of eight books and
dozens of articles, Yoshino's next book on corporate restructuring in Asia will be published
next year. He is currently a senior advisor to the School's Japan Research Office.
