Uncertainty has preoccupied me since John McArthur, the late great Harvard Business School Dean, gave me a copy of Frank Knight’s forgotten treatise, circa 1990. It framed much of my writing and teaching on entrepreneurship, finance and innovation ever since.

Uncertainty and Enterprise pulls this all together in a Oxford University Press book available of for sale on Amazon.

The book’s completion coincided with my retirement (Emeritus in Latin) as the Thomas Schmideiny Professor of Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts. That ended 35 years of teaching entrepreneurship at HBS, Chicago, Columbia, and finally, the Fletcher School.

But no rest for the wicked. I am devoting “retirement” to:

1) Teaching a course on Transformational Medical Advances at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. I taught this course as a Visiting Prof at HBS in 2021.

2) Helping faculty at other places to teach the course. Please contact me if you institution might be interested. My services — for helping and teaching the course are free! (As are most of the student materials — no expensive text books.

3) Launching a center/consortium/initiative to promote transformative advances — in health care and beyond. My goal is to “kindle the romance of progress” and sidestep the culture wars and political disagreements that are tearing universities and societies apart. At the moment I’m at the passing the tin cup around stage….

Stay tuned!

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