Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn currently teaches the required MBA course The Entrepreneurial Manager and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism.

Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that accompany technological innovation. She is the author of two books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a master of public policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Other Promotions

New Associate Professors (and the faculty units to which they belong) include Bharat Anand (Strategy), Amy C. Edmondson (Technology and Operations Management), and Jonathan West (Technology and Operations Management). In addition, Thomas J. DeLong (Organizational Behavior; Entrepreneurial and Service Management) and Michael A. Wheeler (Negotiation, Organizations & Markets) have been named Professors of Management Practice.

Retirements

Three outstanding and long-serving members of the HBS faculty have retired.

William J. Bruns, Jr., the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and an expert on accounting and control, joined the HBS faculty in 1969 and taught extensively in Executive Education Programs, most recently in the Owner/President Management Program. He is the author of, among other publications, Accounting for Managers: Text and Cases; coauthor (with Sharon M. McKinnon) of The Information Mosaic; and coeditor (with Robert S. Kaplan) of Accounting & Management: Field Study Perspectives. A graduate of the University of Redlands, Bruns earned his MBA from HBS in 1959 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963.

John P. Kotter, the former Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, a noted authority on leadership in complex business organizations, joined the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught for many years in both the Executive Education and the MBA Programs and developed important courses on the subject of leadership, including the MBA elective Power and Influence. He is the author of numerous influential articles and books, including A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management; Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur; John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do; and Leading Change. A graduate of MIT, where he also earned an MS degree in 1970, Kotter received his DBA from HBS in 1972.

Richard F. Meyer, the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1965. Specializing in general management, he also has published widely in the areas of financial risk management, negotiation, operations research, and utility theory. He taught in the MBA and Doctoral Programs and for many years was chairman of the Managerial Economics unit. Meyer's work in long-term planning under risk and uncertainty ranged from helping to pioneer computer applications at large companies to charting U.S. space policy as a member of a Presidential task force. Meyer, a 1953 graduate of Harvard College, earned a Ph.D. in applied physics in 1961, also from Harvard.

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