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Qualifying Clay Christensen
Amar Bhidé and Pankaj Ghemawat Quartz October 9, 2014 Clay Christensen’s theories are great for entrepreneurs, but not executives Steel and calculators buck the trend. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)...
View ArticleThe dubious utility of productivity estimates.
Talk at Cato conference on the future of US growth
View ArticleSeminar on Practical knowledge — final (well, maybe) syllabus
Syllabus This seminar examines the development of practical knowledge intended to transform “existing conditions into preferred ones, ” as Simon (1996) put it. Such knowledge is embodied in artifacts...
View ArticleQuestions about the practical utility of Randomized Control Trials
I got a “revise and resubmit” for my paper on making economics more useful on the very day the Nobel prize in economics was announced. I have long been skeptical of the practical utility of Randomized...
View ArticleHustling to beat the Coronavirus (with Leif Pagrotsky)
Our article (full text below) highlights the crucial role of local knowledge and action in global pandemics. While regretting the grim circumstances, I’m encouraged by this collaboration with Leif — a...
View Article“Commercial” for HBS Spring 2021 Elective
The more formal description is on the HBS elective course catalog
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Capitalism Won’t Thrive on Value Investing Alone (just published HBR.org oped)
First oped in more than a year (when I was maniacally trying to get my medical innovation course done… Trigger warning: starts with a suicide and more personal than my usual fare by Amar Bhidé June...
View ArticleCelebrating Richard “Dick” Nelson
Gave me joy to write this nomination In nominating Richard Nelson, I feel both honored and nervous. He has secured so many glittering accolades and well-deserved tributes that it is difficult to say...
View ArticleSunlighting Knightian Uncertainty/ Commemorating McArthur (New Working Paper)
This is my last month at HBS and I thought I’d squeeze in one last working paper, Renewing Knightian Uncertainty (just posted on SSRN). The real meat, if you can call it that, should be in the next...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Specialization: How Subjective (“Knightian”) Uncertainty Matters
Hayek Seminar Talk at LSE 2 Dec ’21 Tim Besley, John Kay, and Mervyn King organize a Hayek Seminar at the London School of Economics that’s been meeting for about a year and a half. Ive had the great...
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