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HBS Career Highlights
HBS professor, Chris Christensen
Christensen gladly gave up the certainty of planned lectures for the ambiguity of free-flowing discussion driven by his students.
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- 1943 Earns his MBA
- 1953 Earns DCS degree and is appointed an assistant professor
- 1958 Appointed full professor
- 1963 Named the first George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Business Administration
- 1965 Coauthors Business Policy: Text and Cases
- 1981 Authors Teaching by the Case Method (Teaching and the Case Method in subsequent editions)
- 1984 “Teaching by the Case Method” colloquium held in honor of the School’s 75th anniversary, attracting 85 participants from 60 universities around the world
- 1984 Named the Robert Walmsley University Professor
- 1987 Receives the Academy of Management’s Outstanding Educator Award
- 1988 C. Roland Christensen Professorship of Business Administration endowed by the MBA Class of 1963
- 1992 Edits Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership
- 1993 Receives HBS Distinguished Service Award
- 2000 C. Roland Christensen Center established at the University of Utah
- 2004 C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning established at HBS
