by William George - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Letters to the Editor

had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details

Keywords: Roland Christensen; Roberta Moniz Lasley; Diana Greer; Edna Homa; Anne Jardim; Eunice Jensen; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

numerous HBS case studies and research papers on populism in democratic countries from Bolivia to France to the United States. “Populism seems to be on the rise everywhere,” says Pons. “It’s a phenomenon that is urgent and important to understand.” In this interview,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

brain as well as left brain.” —Anand Mahindra (MBA ’81), Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. “This notion of the golden parachute — I wish we could just voluntarily all agree we’re not going to do that anymore, because it doesn’t make any... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered

version of the School's Business Policy course. Named a full professor in 1958 and the first George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration in 1963, Christensen began the second major phase of his career in 1968, when Dean... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Robert Piccus and his colleagues for organizing the Hong Kong event and by introducing William S. Lear (MBA '68) of the HBS Club of Chicago, the host of next year's global conference. Lear presented a video... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

values, Spier begins his redemption by starting the Aquamarine Fund and by channeling none other than the king of value investing. When Spier saw Warren Buffett speak at HBS, he wasn’t much impressed. That... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised View Details

01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season

THAT'S A WINNER: The DeWitts enjoy the home field advantage at the new Busch Stadium, which offers views of downtown St. Louis and the city's trademark Gateway Arch. From his office in the new Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals Managing Partner and Chairman View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

Inc. and the Eye Care Company of Hoya Corporation placed first in the multibusiness company business-unit category. Established by the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University and sponsored View Details

Keywords: awards

11 Oct 2024
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Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

with the introduction of new Board Members and a reception and dinner program with MBA students in the Williams Room. Sessions on Thursday, September 26, began with a fireside chat with Dean Srikant Datar on the current priorities and... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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A Miller's Tale

The oldest flour company in the United States — and perhaps the only one whose sales are rising amid a decline in home baking — is King Arthur Flour, a firm that's been in operation since George Washington was President, as Smithsonian... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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End of Campaign Celebrated

and Bill George talked about the new required MBA course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). They provided a firsthand look at LCA by leading discussions using two cases developed for the course.... View Details

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

01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

event was chaired by HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Huckman, with colleagues from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. The goal of the gathering and the focus of its panels, said Hamermesh, were to come up with ways... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 1998
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Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74

- a process that began in the years following World War II - by limiting the increase in the size of the faculty so as to sustain the quality and unique character of the HBS community. "Larry had to make some tough decisions in this... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

of smart people. Koehn: As these forces gather steam by the early 1960s, you're now attracting all kinds of interesting people, right? From the names we recognize like Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and View Details

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

ALUMNI ACHIEVERS: Cohen, Yeo, Moore, and Donaldson at a reception in the DeanÃ¢â¬â¢s Garden. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL To the four HBS graduates receiving this year’s Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor, HBS professor Bill... View Details