Harvard Business School

Tiger Woods' very public apology has tongues wagging about his future value as a sports figure, including that of Stephen A. Greyser '56, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School.

You know that Facebook in en route to taking over the world when politicians start putting up advertisements for themselves on its sidebar. Stephen Pagliuca, unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senator seat formerly occupied by Mass. Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, was recently spotted encouraging users on Facebook to “Become a Fan.” Now we have to wonder, is Pagliuca gearing up for another run?

While most of their teammates are relaxing during the offseason, 40 National Football League players spent this week at the Harvard Business School participating in the Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program.

A conglomerate of Swedish economic associations has awarded Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research “for his pioneering research into venture capital (VC) and VC-backed entrepreneurship.”

Who knew? In 90 minutes and for the cost of a couple beers ($6.95, so yes, FlyBy means cheap college-kid beers), you can study the economics of beer using a board game sold by the Harvard Business Review.

The World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland welcomed unusually large delegations from many universities, including Harvard, which sent a number of senior administrators and well-known professors.

As the University experienced its first Harvard-wide January term break, Harvard Business School launched J-Term programming to help its students make the most of the new gap between semesters.

During a late-afternoon perusal of New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog, we were amused to find an interesting little “quote” from one of our very own—HBS professor William W. George (better known as simply Bill George). “If you don’t pay them for their performance, you’ll lose them. It's much like professional athletes and movie stars," George had said, supposedly referring (as the blog had initially suggested) to bankers. A little…intrigued by this statement, we called George’s office to see what was up.

In recognition for a lifetime achievement in financial economics research, Harvard Business School Professor Michael C. Jensen was presented the Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Financial Economics last month.

Harvard Business School professor Mary Tripsas will no longer be writing for The New York Times after violating a policy prohibiting writers from accepting anything of value from sources.