Applied Abstractions

Diplomacy, Democracy, Defence and the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship Olav & Oddvar Dyvik Memorial Lecture by Former Ambassador and Current Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns.

All over Norway flags are on half mast, there are masses of people laying down flowers in front of the Royal Palace, and most media outlets have black backgrounds and articles about the royals.

(An edited translation of this Norwegian blogpost, for the benefit of my non-Norwegian students.)

I am currently trying to figure out how to spend the next semester – I have no courses to teach (for once), plenty of sabbatical time banked up, and a need to get seriously up to speed not just on the current state of tech evolution, but also on putting t…

Every time a new technology comes out, someone will find a way to trick it.

Time for some reflection after having designed and taught the new EMM (Executive Master of Management) course “The Value-Creating Board”, arranged for the first time in the fall of 2024.

BI’s China office asked me to recommend two books I have read in 2023 to their students, so here goes (with a few honorable mentions): Flyvbjerg, Bent & Dan Gardner (2023): How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every P…

In May I received official message that I had been awarded the status of Excellent Teaching Practitioner with four colleagues from BI.

I hear so much weird stuff about AI these days that I tend to just block it out – including people talking about “an AI” as in “we need an AI for that”.

Another year, another list of exciting projects (previous ones here, here, and here) from the course Analytics for Strategic Management, which I teach with my excellent colleague Chandler Johnson).