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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
the Bible, and Wheel of Fortune. Here, just two of the artists, philosophers, fictional characters, and others who make cameo appearances in this guide to finance and the good life: (Getty Images/Bettmann) (Getty Images/Bettmann) Wallace Stevens: The 20th-century poet... 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 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
professorships and fellowships. Only the remaining 13 percent is unrestricted—$19 million in FY17—and can be used to help fund new ideas and initiatives. An enduring investment: Donors who establish an endowed fund at HBS take the long... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
HBS’s capital campaign from 2002 to 2005, raising nearly $600 million; established a professorship at HBS; and, with his family, provided the funds that created the Spangler Center. “This place means something to us. It was significant in... 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 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From... 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
- 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 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
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
to $10 million, that will honor Nohria by supporting: the HBS Fund; the Nitin Nohria Endowment for Business and Society, which in addition to enabling innovative research will establish a professorship named for Nohria; the priorities... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
to establish an endowed professorship in his name. Relaxing in the sunroom of her home near Richmond, Lambert reflects on her "retirement" years. Among many other things, she is interested in helping other small business owners with... 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 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
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Jacob H. Schiff Professorship of Investment Banking. During the Korean War, Fox was an advisor to the Office of Defense Mobilization. Previously, during World War II, he had spent four years in Washington, D.C., in charge of the economic,... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Meredith Riggs Spangler, and two daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler, he gave a major gift to the School that made the Spangler Center, a focal point of campus life for the entire HBS community, possible. An HBS View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
hands-on education. Honored annually at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference—the yearly gathering of the HBS African American Student Union and the HBS African-American Alumni Association, an organization he cofounded in 1978—Fitzhugh, who died in 1992, is also celebrated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
organized by Christensen and colleagues Jim Heskett and David Garvin drew 85 participants from sixty universities around the world. That same year, Christensen was named to the Robert Walmsley University Professorship, one of a handful of special View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
new and emerging initiatives. Without these funds, Kaplan said, the School's ability to respond rapidly to pathbreaking new programs and activities is severely limited. "Where gifts to the School's endowment strengthen our ability to fund established commitments such... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
and increased his own already substantial support. In addition to the Opera, through a family foundation, Johnson and his wife, Cathie, support a variety of educational and cultural institutions. An HBS professorship they funded is named... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the practice of business. This is a rare blend of characteristics, and competition for outstanding faculty is growing. Moreover, an entire generation of faculty who helped shape the School over the last half-century have retired or will soon retire. We’ve launched... View Details