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词条 Nancy Koehn
释义

  1. Education

  2. Career

     Academic appointments 

  3. Author

  4. Personal life

  5. Works

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. External sources

{{Infobox person
| name = Nancy F. Koehn
| image = Nancy_Koehn_2019.jpg
| caption = Koehn at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = United States
| nationality = American
| occupation = business historian, professor, author
| boards = Tempur Sealy International, Fashion To Figure (clothing retailer)
| spouse = N/A
| website = NancyKoehn.com
}}

Nancy F. Koehn (born 1959) is an author and a business historian[1] at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is the James E. Robison[2] Professor of Business Administration, and was a Visiting Scholar during 2011–2013. She is also a member of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the Economics Department.

Education

  • B.A., History (Phi Beta Kappa), Stanford University
  • Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • MA, Harvard University (European History)
  • PhD, Harvard University (European History)

Career

Koehn is a business historian at Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and has been a business historian at Harvard Business School, since 2011 (some online sources say 1991).{cn|January 2019} She began as a Visiting Scholar (2011–2013), then was offered the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, which she has held since 2013. Her predecessor in that endowed Chair was James Cash, Jr..

Koehn is widely quoted on radio and television, and is a regular featured contributor to WGBH,[3] an NPR radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, near Harvard Business School. She has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, and the World Business Forum, and has appeared on American Experience, Good Morning America, Bloomberg Television, CNBC's Moneywheel, The NewsHour, A&E's Biography, CNN's Money Line, and many other television programs. She writes regularly for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post,[4] and the Harvard Business Review Online, and is a regular commentator on BBC. Numerous corporations consult with her for strategic guidance.

She is also a director of Fashion To Figure, a clothing retailer, and of Tempur Sealy International.

Academic appointments

  • 2004-2011, Lecturer, History and Literature concentration, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • 2011-2013, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School, Allston, Massachusetts
  • 2013–present, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Allston, Massachusetts

Author

In Forged in Crisis, Koehn explores what qualities make for a great leader, using the examples of Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rachel Carson, and Frederick Douglass.[5] The book became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller in November 2017.[6]

She has devoted significant interest to women in leadership; has written two books about Oprah Winfrey, and had a role in Harvard's offering her an honorary doctorate.

Personal life

Dr. Koehn is single and is a breast cancer survivor.[7] She is an avid equestrian who describes herself as "an avid equestrian" and, on her personal website, as a "Teacher, Rider, Poet, Pilgrim".[8] She often references her love of horses, of riding horses, and her care of three horses.[9]

Philadelphia Indie band The Chairman Dances included a song for Nancy and Peter Gomes on their 2016 album, Time Without Measure.[10]

Works

Books:[11]
  • {{cite book | title=Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership |URL=https://www.amazon.com/Forged-Crisis-Courageous-Leadership-Turbulent/dp/1501174444| publisher=Scribner | year=2017 | pages=528 | isbn=978-1-5011-7444-5}}, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
  • Oprah (Brand) Renew (2011)[12]
  • Oprah: Leading with Heart (2011)[13]
  • Ernest Shackleton: Exploring Leadership, (2010: {{isbn|978-0-9830-0011-2}}; 2012)[14]
  • The Story of American Business: From the Pages of the New York Times (2009, Harvard Business Press, {{isbn|978-1-5913-9683-3}}
  • Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell (2001, {{isbn|978-1-5785-1221-8}})
  • The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire (1994, {{isbn|978-0-8014-2699-5}})
Contributing Author:[15]
  • Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other Economic Leaders (2008)
  • Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind (2004)
  • Beauty and Business (2000)
  • The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995 (1999)
  • Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (1997)
  • Management Past and Present: A Casebook on American Business History (1995)
Journal articles:[16]
  • Koehn, Nancy F. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/great-men-great-pay-why-ceo-compensation-is-sky-high/2014/06/12/6e49d796-d227-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html "Great Men, Great Pay? Why CEO Compensation Is Sky High."] Opinions. Washington Post (June 12, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-f-koehn/calling-all-leaders-feed-_b_5023063.html "Calling All Leaders: Feed and Water Yourself."] Huffington Post, The Blog (March 25, 2014).

Harvard Business School Case Studies:

Nancy Koehn has written and supervised Harvard Business School business cases,[17] including

  • Starbucks Coffee Company
  • Bono and U2
  • Celeste Walker
  • Dell Computer
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • Estée Lauder
  • Henry Heinz
  • Marshall Field
  • Milton Hershey
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Stonyfield Yogurt
  • Whole Foods
  • Wedgwood

See also

  • Harvard Business School
  • Business history
  • Economic history

References

1. ^Business history at Harvard Business School
2. ^James E. Robison Foundation
3. ^Search of WGBH archives of Nancy Koehn appearances on WGBH
4. ^Nancy Koehn's 2-part series on breast cancer
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://forgedincrisis.com/|title=Forged in Crisis by Harvard Professor Nancy Koehn|website=forgedincrisis.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-27}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/best-selling-books-week-ended-nov-5-1510339506|title=Best-Selling Books Week Ended Nov. 5|date=2017-11-10|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2017-11-27|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}
7. ^Amanda MGowan, Battling Breast Cancer, Beyond The Pink Ribbons Nancy Koehn on Boston Public Radio, 10/28/2014
8. ^Nancy F. Koehn's personal website
9. ^Nancy Koehn's profile of herself as a horse jockey
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://store.thechairmandances.com/album/time-without-measure|title=Time Without Measure by The Chairman Dances|last=|first=|date=|website=Bandcamp|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
11. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6493&facInfo=pub | title=Bibliography of Nancy F. Koehn's Publications | publisher=Harvard Business School | accessdate=October 15, 2017}}
12. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=edBZjnY6su4C&source=gbs_similarbooks Google Books listing for Oprah (Brand) Renew (2011)]
13. ^[https://books.google.com/books/about/Oprah_Leading_with_Heart.html?id=QY81S0hw4dkC Google Books listing for Oprah: Leading with Heart (2011)]
14. ^[https://books.google.com/books/about/Ernest_Shackleton_Exploring_Leadership.html?id=Xt3VtWtzEzIC Google Books listing for Ernest Shackleton: Exploring Leadership, (2012)]
15. ^Bibliography of Nancy F. Koehn's books
16. ^Bibliography of Nancy F. Koehn's books
17. ^List of some of the business cases written by Nancy Koehn

External sources

  • Nancy Koehn's faculty profile, Harvard Business School
  • Nancy F. Koehn's personal website
  • [https://twitter.com/nancykoehn Nancy Koehn's Twitter account - @nancykoehn]
  • Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (case studies; HBS pioneered the case study method in business education
  • The James and Anne Robinson Foundation, Armonk, NY
  • [https://www.forgedincrisis.com Forged in Crisis book website]
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