by Marion Fourcade - Publications - Faculty & Research

2022
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth C. Kimura and Marion Fourcade

Using his middle name as his company’s name, Kauffman built a fledging pharmaceutical business initially housed in his basement into a $1 billion operation by the time he sold Marion Labs to Merrell Dow.... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

HBS Grads Are the Most

Marion Sandler (HRPBA '53), General Motors' Cynthia Trudell (62nd PMD), and eBay's Meg Whitman (MBA '79). Whitman also figured in Business Week's "e.biz 25: The Most Influential People in Electronic Business" (September 27, 1999), where... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Campaign Hosts Events in Washington and Seattle

2a6b178d3c24f2cf48064f755bfcb3db The Campaign for Harvard Business School ended its first official year on high notes, with successful events at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle.... View Details

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

12 Aug 2010
News

You Can’t Take It with You

Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

anything. My mother only had a tenth-grade education, but she was a voracious reader who taught herself the jewelry and antiques business," he says. Inspired by his mother — "an eccentric entrepreneur" — and her perseverance, the... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

01 Feb 1999
News

All in the Family

fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

be published in April 2020. Rebecca sits on the boards of Amgen and of Idexx Laboratories. Her publications include the books Leading Sustainable Change and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. She was named one of three “Outstanding Directors... View Details

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