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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 (19992002). 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.