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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Dean in 1980, he held the Ford Professorship for another year before leaving the faculty. Fouraker received Harvard Business School's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, in 1980. A professorship... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
(FAS) will fund both the Lumry Family Professorship at HBS and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in FAS's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lumry's gift reflects his professional interests and expertise in technology... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
A new chair has been established by André R. Jakurski (MBA '73) to support research in the area of global finance. Professor Kenneth A. Froot will be the first incumbent of the André R. Jakurski Professorship of Business Administration.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
financial outlook, published in the annual financial report. As a cochair of The Harvard Campaign, he helped ensure Harvard’s strong financial footing through the 21st century. Rothenberg’s generosity to Harvard University went beyond service: he endowed several View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
engineering institute. And in 2004, he gave $25 million to support the HBS Doctoral Programs. Wyss has also endowed several professorships at Harvard.) Last December, Wyss figured prominently in what news accounts hailed as the largest,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Microsystems. When asked to name the qualities that best define a successful entrepreneur, Bowes responds succinctly: “intelligence, desire, and unrelenting forward motion.” His gift to HBS in 2012 helped fund a professorship that honors... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
interest in me were the reasons I considered an academic career and developed a passion for research," said Porter, who holds an endowed professorship named after his mentor. Born on August 17, 1919, Christensen grew up in Iowa City and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
first time. David A. Thomas, an authority on mentoring, executive development, and workplace diversity, becomes a chaired professor as the inaugural incumbent of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship of Business Administration. The chair... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
he adds. “I see tremendous opportunity for collaborative partnerships now that the [Harvard John A. Paulson] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be located adjacent to HBS.” Seizing that opportunity, at the urging of his daughter, a 2004 MBA, McCance... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
game-changing ideas, these examples of pathbreaking research emerged from HBS faculty members early on in their careers. Today Porter holds the Bishop William Lawrence University Professorship and Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Remembering Dick Spangler
daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler—made a gift to the School for the construction of the Spangler Center, a building that has become the hub of MBA student life. An HBS professorship (held by Bill Kirby)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
1975 Professorship of Entrepreneurial Management. The inspiration for the gift came in part from the popularity of The Entrepreneurial Manager, the recently retooled required course, as well as from perennially oversubscribed electives... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
gave of those earnings at then record levels to establish the MBA Class of 1949 Professorship of Business Administration. Stressing that the class provides solid role models for today’s leaders, Callahan gives detailed accounts of eight... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
airline loyalty program. Brierley and his wife, Diane, who have called Dallas home for 30 years, have given regularly to HBS since his graduation, supporting the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation and creating both a professorship and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
easier than ever for alumni to stay connected to the School." Stevenson is the first incumbent of the Sarofim-Rock Professorship of Business Administration, a chair established in 1981 to provide a continuing base for research and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
lecturer in 1959 after a decade in Ford Motor Company’s finance department. Promoted to full professor in 1964, he was named the first incumbent of the Herman C. Krannert Professorship of Business Administration in 1969. He retired from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
while working as a stock boy at a Safeway grocery store to help pay his way through the University of Missouri. He received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and one year later, OPM graduates honored Marshall by endowing an HBS View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All... View Details