by William George - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2020
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Lifting Fallen Families

In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was killed in combat in Panama as he participated in Operation Just Cause, which was set to remove Manuel Noriega from power. Gibbs was 22 years old and just months away from becoming a dad to a... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit

CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From... View Details

Keywords: Government

10 Jun 2015
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The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Feb 1999
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A Message to Our Readers

That first issue—a modest eight pages long—included a message to alumni from Dean Wallace B. Donham; HBS club news; a report on a dinner honoring the School’s legendary benefactor, George F. Baker; synopses of several cases in the... View Details

01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future

particularly pro-development." Founded in 2004, Helios has a number of prominent investors, including George Soros, Madeleine Albright, Jacob Rothschild, and David Bonderman. That's due in no small measure to Helios's success and to... View Details

01 Jul 2018
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Through the Harvard Business School Campaign we positioned the School to deepen its impact on... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated View Details

19 Dec 2014
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Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening also featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor William A. Sahlman, Leo F. Mullin (MBA 1967), Lisa M. Gunther (MBA 2000)... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Faculty Books

identify customer-owners, delight them by exceeding their expectations, foster an ownership culture throughout the company, and measure and increase “ownership quotient” among customers and employees. Creating and Growing Real Estate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship

Myra M. Hart, an expert in entrepreneurship, has been named MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice. She holds the MBA Class of 1961 Professorship concurrently with William J. Poorvu, who has been its incumbent since 1989. A... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat

starting a business. Tom Eisenmann, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, had already noticed the phenomenon of students informally self-organizing into “tribes” around career interests and suggested to Rosenthal... View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Oct 1999
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A Constructive Summer at HBS

contractor William A. Berry & Son for a "superb job," Moffatt has been pleased with progress on the building. "The whole project has been characterized by good fortune," he says. While the outside structure... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2003
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Campaign News

Campaign Chair Dick Spangler addressed the audience at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. More campaign photos. Photographs by Steve Boljonis, Richard Morgenstein, and Todd Rosenberg As of late April, thanks in part to two extraordinary... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

evaluating new packaged goods, and a paper he cowrote on this topic received the 1983 William O'Dell Award for the most significant article published by the Journal of Marketing Research. A graduate of the... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch

The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

exaggerated." by James E. Aisner (Adapted from the Winter 1999 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of the HBS Division of Research.) The Real Estate Game by William J.... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the... View Details

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