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Serafim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Howard H. Stevenson, a leading scholar of entrepreneurship, left the B-School in 1977, retiring while under consideration for tenure. But McArthur took the initiative to solicit funding for a new endowed chair and then offered Stevenson the position...
With McArthur's support, say Stevenson and Sahlman, the program has come to hold its own amidst more established departments. By next year, at least seven professors will teach entrepreneurial studies courses, and Sahlman estimates that half of all second-year students will take a course in the field...
...group was effectively formed when McArthur asked Stevenson to the University," says Sahlman. "There are people who still think entepreneurial studies is not worthwhile, not a rigorous area of concern. We disagreed, McArthur disagreed, and McArthur enabled us to do what we've done...
...satellite and shot into a higher orbit. If, however, the reactor should collide with a defunct satellite or some other piece of debris left from more than 30 years of human activity in space, it could be knocked out of orbit anyway. Says Daniel Hirsch, director of the Stevenson Program on Nuclear Policy at the University of California at Santa Cruz: "The probability of a collision with space debris is unacceptably high...
...there someone in the family interested in the 46 synonyms for the Gewurztraminer grape? Or maybe you have a friend who just has to locate the six wine-growing districts of China? If so, consider as a suitable gift Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson (New York Graphic Society; 480 pages; $40). Lavishly illustrated and superbly mapped, it compares favorably with older standards by Hugh Johnson and Alexis Lichine. Stevenson, a British expert, provides meticulously detailed information on both the basics (how to read wine labels) and the arcane (how wine is fermented). Idiosyncrasy blends with thoroughness here...