by Paul Guttry - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills

A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

“Business leaders must remember that, left unchecked, corruption will eventually undermine the very legitimacy of capitalism,” says Paul Healy, James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty... View Details

05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Paul Grana (MBA 2009) has always been a numbers guy. He was cracking video codes at 13, he was really into math in high school. And that attraction to numbers,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

Congress in 2004, currently with an annual budget of about $900 million, the MCC (whose first CEO was Paul Applegarth [MBA 1972]) requires that partner countries qualify for funding by meeting a majority of... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act

Glenn Close in Crooked House (photo by Nick Wall) Crooked House, an Agatha Christie mystery published in 1949, was one of her favorites, yet it had never been adapted for film or television. Now, however, HBS sectionmates Joe Abrams and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Nov 2019
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From the Ground Up

Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor

Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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At Ease

Fellows. Afterward, he talked with vets (from left) Danny Cho and Paul Stouffer (both MBA 2012) and Justin Langlois (HBS 2013). Earlier, Mullen fielded questions from students in two classes taught by... View Details

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

01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work

Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

01 Sep 2006
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Charting the Year Ahead

will enhance club vibrancy. This year’s committee is headed by Paul Hayre (MBA 1999). Alumni Marketing. During the past two years, the board has focused on the wide array of programs and resources available... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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Serving through TechnoServe

Paul and Susan Tierney in Ghana. With a mission to create economic value in Latin America and Africa by supporting local entrepreneurs, TechnoServe uses its $15 million budget and four hundred employees to... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Gompers, Merton Honored

The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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Letters to the Editor

be noted that these green fruits are born from the entrepreneurial seeds sown over the years by HBS faculty, such as Howard Stevenson, Lynn Bollinger, and Georges Doriot, to name a few who influenced so many. I am personally grateful to... View Details

Keywords: HBS Show; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

work still to be done in each case.) The Communications Committee, led by Paul Stewart (MBA '87), will focus on improving three areas: how the School and alumni clubs communicate with HBS alumni; how alumni... View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact

Bridgitt Bertram Evans (both MBA 1986), The Heckscher Foundation, and Andrew Paul (MBA 1983) — and others is allowing members of the Harvard community and beyond to take their ideas as far as they can go. The HBS One Harvard Fund, a... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2002
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Driven

creates an opportunity to weave together disparate threads of scholarship. A fascinating outcome of this broad intellectual overview, Driven provides a new way to look at the unseen forces that guide the choices we make every day in our personal and professional lives.... View Details