by Robert Simons - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
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A Legacy of Support

breakfast with HBS fellowship recipients whom Robert and Myra sponsored, hoping to someday follow in his father’s footsteps as a student and then as a donor. Today, the Krafts work side by side in the family... View Details

23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

Star 2003 Joins General Electric’s Corporate Initiatives Group 2006 Named VP, University of Oklahoma 2009 Named President, Hampden-Sydney College 2010 Coauthors Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business 2016 Named President, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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 for their paper “Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2000
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Books

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

experience at Harvard, to address a variety of child-rearing challenges. Instead of control and discipline, this approach aims to help children to think for themselves, own their behavior and choices, and develop confidence from a young age. The Speculator's Mosaic... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

Preferreds to Generate Long-Term Income by Simon Wadsworth (MBA ’73C) (Bookmasters) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now by... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship

organizations, and numerous nations abroad as well as U.S. inner cities. "As the fourth University Professor in the 93-year history of HBS — a group that includes Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton, the late C. Roland Christensen, and the... View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere

barware, and accessories.) Ocean plastic is a particularly vexing environmental problem: By contaminating our water and killing marine life, it endangers everything higher up the food chain—including us. That’s why View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard. Faculty Books The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See by Max Bazerman Simon &... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

01 Feb 2002
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When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness

A study by HBS assistant professor Rafael Di Tella (with Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and Robert MacCulloch of the London School of Economics) finds that when a country is... View Details

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

25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver

Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I grew up in the northeast part of the Bronx. There was no internet, so how did you... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

01 Jun 2007
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A Classics Enterprise

Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s... View Details

Keywords: ancient Greece; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 Apr 2015
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Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

with classmates and meet other alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, HBS Campaign Chair John B. Hess (MBA 1977), Texas Regional Chair Harold M.... View Details

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

Photographed by Susan Young and Alice Carfrae Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2022 recipients, listen to podcasts detailing their impact, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

01 Feb 2021
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Locally Grown

Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Bridging Past, Present, and Future

and it’s also where I met Marc and many other lifelong friends,” says Doft, CEO of Highline Capital Management LLC. Reflecting on a class campaign that was notable for broad participation and substantial donation levels—the most ever raised View Details

01 Jun 2007
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In Brief

Q&A with Steve Schwarzman. Private-equity firms have been on an acquisitions binge of late, and leading the pack is The Blackstone Group, headed by CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72). He talks about the buyout business and where it is headed.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

primary functions. First, Darwall, Roberts, and Center senior researcher Nicole S. Tempest (MBA '92) will identify potential case studies that might be of interest to HBS faculty members. Some of these cases will be written by CRC staff:... View Details