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William A. Sahlman
William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details
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William A. Fairburn
Fairburn revolutionized U.S. match manufacturing by using sesquisulphate to produce matches rather than white phosphorus, which had been publicly condemned for leading to poisoning. Under Fairburn, Diamond Match controlled 90% of domestic... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 19 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)
Keywords: by William A. Sahlman
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
the true level of its operating expenses. All the required information was there: It just was ignored by the investment community. The real accounting scandal at Enron had nothing to do with the failure to expense options.—William View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
education around the world. In this effort, gifts of all sizes make a difference. William A. Sahlman (MBA ’75, PhDBE ’82) Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Dimitri... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Bill Sahlman - Making A Difference
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Bill Sahlman - Making A Difference
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
typical lab has 20 to 40 people, led by a senior researcher (the "principal investigator''). Most people in a lab are doctoral or postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
have launched the William A. Sahlman Fund for Entrepreneurship—an endowment that will support the teaching, study, and cultivation of entrepreneurship at HBS and Harvard.... View Details
Dorothy A. Leonard
Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details
- June 2009
- Supplement
F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch, April 2008
By: John A. Quelch
Professor John Quelch interviewed F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group in April 2008 to review updates since the original case was published in 2004. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch, April 2008." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 509-730, June 2009.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
won’t do the kind of work that is necessary to make progress on our most intractable challenges. Society pays a high price for randomization of research support — a fact that, sadly, is not recognized by the public, the media, or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 23 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
- 20 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
"Large companies look for the perfect solution [and] analyze everything to a T, as opposed to putting something in production, getting it going, and analyzing off of that." “He found a gap that was the size of the Grand Canyon." —William View Details
- 08 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
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