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39-526: The foundation's archives were acquired by the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Foundation. in 2013. The Center officially opened on April 27, 2013. The Woody Guthrie Center features, in addition to the archives, a museum focused on the life and the influence of Guthrie through his music, writings, art, and political activities. The museum is open to the public. On September 6, 2007, Woody Guthrie Publications, in cooperation with

78-630: A 20-branch company located solely in Oklahoma into a $ 23.9 billion bank with operations in nine states. He owns 61.5 percent of BOK. As of 2007, Kaiser's ownership interests in BOK were worth $ 2.3 billion. In 2008, with an estimated current net worth of around $ 12 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as the 20-richest person in America and the richest person in Oklahoma . In March 2009, in

117-471: A new hall that was funded by a US$ 30 million donation by the family of the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao , whose four daughters all attended Harvard Business School. The Executive Education quad currently includes McArthur, Baker, and Mellon Halls (residences), McCollum and Hawes (classrooms), Chao Center, and Glass (administration). Most of the HBS buildings are connected by a color-coded basement tunnel system which

156-399: Is "naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose." A Wall Street Journal article reported in 2004 that campaign contribution records showed that Kaiser had donated $ 10,000 to Democratic Party political candidates for every $ 1,000 that he gave Republican Party candidates. Kaiser was a fundraiser for

195-538: Is a comprehensive list of commercial recordings containing songs which have lyrics written by Woody Guthrie and music subsequently written by others: One of the lyrics which was worked several times by Billy Bragg, "All You Fascists", has subsequently surfaced in a recording of a 1944 radio program "The Martins and the McCoys". Guthrie appeared in the program with other folk singers and can be heard singing "All of You Fascists Bound to Lose," set to his original melody, which

234-613: Is a strong proponent of programs like Early Head Start and Educare. An article in Forbes quoted him as saying "Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream." The Kaiser foundation supports the training of teachers specializing in early education by donating $ 1.2 million per year to Tulsa Community College and Oklahoma University to fund training programs. It also reimburses

273-725: Is fighting childhood poverty through the George Kaiser Family Foundation; he is also a major benefactor to the Jewish community in Oklahoma, which numbers about 5,000 people. He has been notably active in the promotion of early childhood education . Kaiser's family foundation is also the largest contributor to the Tulsa Community Foundation , which Kaiser established in 1998 because of his perception that Tulsa's historical dependence on unorganized private giving from its wealthy families

312-488: Is former Alaska governor Tony Knowles . and whose director was former U.S. Representative Brad Carson . In January 2009, Kaiser drew attention after he told a committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives that the state should eliminate or reduce tax incentives for the oil and gas industry, and instead use the money for health care or education programs or for tax cuts for other taxpayers. The foundation

351-594: Is of course substantially different from the melodies Bragg has devised for it. Given the quantity of these posthumous collaborations, it was perhaps inevitable that there would be some lyrics set to more than one melody. For instance, track 3 on the Wasserman album ("Ease My Revolutionary Mind") uses the same set of lyrics as track 3 on the Farrar album (as well as track 3 on the Autumn Defense album). Track 2 on

390-563: Is the graduate business school of Harvard University , a private Ivy League research university . Located in Allston, Massachusetts , HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing , which publishes business books, leadership articles, case studies , and Harvard Business Review , a monthly academic business magazine. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center , the school's primary library. The school

429-637: Is the 476th richest person in the world and was, in 2012, one of the top 50 American philanthropists. Kaiser was born on July 29, 1942, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Central High School in Tulsa . He earned a BA from Harvard College in 1964 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1966. He briefly considered joining the U.S. Foreign Service , but instead returned to Tulsa in 1966 to work for his father. Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.

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468-567: Is the largest privately funded park project in the United States. The foundation's donation amounted to $ 350 million. Kaiser's family foundation was a large investor in the now-defunct Solyndra Corporation . The company has revealed that the foundation invested $ 340 million in the venture in July 2009, and subsequently gave preferential consideration to a plant site proposed for an economically depressed area of North Tulsa. The plant

507-708: The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama , and functioned as a campaign bundler for Obama. At one 2007 event for Obama, he raised more than $ 250,000. A 2011 article by Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation analyzed Kaiser's business activities and his use of legal tax avoidance strategies, including how during the 1980s bust in the oil industry in Oklahoma and Texas, Kaiser bought up struggling energy companies whose losses provided him with tax deductions that effectively offset his own income and left him with little or no tax liability. Harvard Business School Harvard Business School ( HBS )

546-536: The Egalitarian Conservative Congregation B'Nai Emunah . Kaiser avoids publicity, does not attend society functions and hardly ever gives interviews. While he owns homes in Tulsa and San Francisco, he is said to own no vacation homes, airplanes or yachts. Kaiser is listed third on BusinessWeek ' s 2008 list of the top 50 American philanthropists, behind Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates . Among his prominent causes

585-558: The Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association , as well as its Oklahoma City Blue minor league affiliate . Kaiser's nephew is actor Tim Blake Nelson . Kaiser has been married twice: Kaiser typically works 70 hours a week in his office, spending half his time on philanthropy and the rest on banking, energy and other business interests. Kaiser is affiliated with

624-406: The 1971-built Burden Hall with a 900-seat auditorium. In the fall of 2010, Tata related companies and charities donated $ 50 million for the construction of an executive center. The executive center was named as Tata Hall, after Ratan Tata (AMP, 1975), the chairman of Tata Sons . The total construction costs have been estimated at $ 100 million. Tata Hall is located in the northeast corner of

663-525: The Brooke album ("You'd Oughta Be Satisfied Now") uses the same set of lyrics as track 5 on the third volume of "Mermaid Avenue". The Woody Guthrie Publications website lists Jonatha Brooke's version of "You'd Oughta Be Satisfied Now" as a " derivative work ". George Kaiser George Bruce Kaiser (born July 29, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial Corporation in Tulsa , Oklahoma. As of September 2021, he

702-523: The Foundation's archives to musicians of many types, who she encouraged to write and record music for the many hundreds of Woody Guthrie's written lyrics. Following Woody Guthrie's death, many of these lyrics were without surviving melodies, as Woody did not write musical notation and never recorded (or taught anyone) the majority of his original compositions. In 1995, Nora Guthrie had invited alternative folk-rocker Billy Bragg to select some lyrics from

741-486: The HBS campus. The facility is devoted to the Harvard Business School's Executive Education programs. At seven stories tall with about 150,000 gross square feet, it contains about 180 bedrooms for education students, in addition to academic and multi-purpose spaces. Kresge Way was located by the base of the former Kresge Hall, and is named for Sebastian S. Kresge . In 2014, Kresge Hall was replaced by

780-485: The International Economy; Entrepreneurial Management; Finance; General Management; Marketing; Negotiation, Organizations and Markets; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; and Technology and Operations Management. Older buildings include the 1927-built Morgan Hall, named for J.P. Morgan , and 1940-built Loeb house, named for John L. Loeb Sr. and his son, (both designed by McKim, Mead & White ), and

819-483: The United Kingdom, delivering six-week Advanced Management Program courses alongside local staff at Durham in 1964, Bangor in 1965 and at Strathclyde in 1966. It also brought in professors from the newly founded British business schools to see how teaching was carried out at Harvard via an International Teachers Program. In 2012–2013, HBS administration implemented new programs and practices to improve

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858-636: The Woody Guthrie Foundation released The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949 , accompanied by a 72-page book describing the performance and the project. Paul Braverman, a student at Rutgers University in 1949, made the recordings himself using a small wire recorder at a Guthrie concert in Newark, New Jersey. On February 10, 2008, the release was the recipient of a Grammy Award in the category Best Historical Album. Dedicated to

897-682: The archives to be set to music and then to be recorded commercially. Bragg then invited the alt-country band Wilco to help complete the project. Wilco and Bragg released 2 acclaimed "Mermaid Avenue" albums in 1998 and 2000, using Woody's lyrics set to their own musical compositions. Also, a film documentary Man in the Sand . was released documenting not only the making of the Mermaid Avenue albums but also Bragg's exploration of Woody Guthrie's origins in hometown Okemah, Oklahoma . Many other collaborative projects by others have followed. Following

936-525: The experience of female students and recruit more female professors. HBS established nine global research centers and four regional offices and functions through offices in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore), United States (San Francisco Bay Area, CA), Europe (Paris, opened in 2003), South Asia (India), Middle East and North Africa (Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv), Japan and Latin America (Montevideo, Mexico City, São Paulo). As of 2022, HBS

975-492: The face of the general world economic downturn, Forbes reported that Kaiser's net worth had dropped to $ 9 billion, ranking him in a tie for 43rd-richest person in the world. As of 2023, George's net worth was estimated at $ 13.3 billion. In April 2014, Kaiser bought Tom L. Ward 's interest in The Professional Basketball Club , the investment group headed by Clay Bennett that owns

1014-467: The following year. In 1940 all three emigrated to the United States. They settled in Tulsa, where Herman's aunt and uncle already lived. Herman joined the uncle's oil drilling business. Their son was born in Tulsa. Herman died in Tulsa on October 14, 1992, at the age of 88. Kaiser took control of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company in 1969, after his father had a heart attack. Kaiser-Francis was a little-known, privately owned oil prospecting and drilling company at

1053-742: The one-year program (by then known as the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration) were permitted to apply to join the HBS MBA program as second-years. In December 1962, the faculty voted to allow women to enter the MBA program directly. The first women to apply directly to the MBA program matriculated in September 1963. Harvard Business School played a role in the founding of the first business schools in

1092-537: The poorer people. His foundation then donated $ 62 million to the University of Oklahoma to create a School of Community Medicine at its Tulsa campus. The money supplemented a $ 20 million donation by the Schusterman family . The grants reimburse all tuition for students who graduate as doctors and who work for five years in the community. Kaiser's philosophy about anonymous charitable giving reportedly

1131-803: The preservation and dissemination of information about Guthrie's vast cultural legacy, the Woody Guthrie Archives houses the largest collection of Woody Guthrie material in the world. The archives opened to the public in New York City in 1996. The archives were subsequently moved to the new Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2013. The archives are open only to researchers by appointment. The archives contains thousands of items related to Guthrie, including original artwork, books, correspondence, lyrics, manuscripts, media, notebooks, periodicals, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and other special collections. Nora Guthrie opened up

1170-596: The start the school enjoyed a close relationship with the corporate world. Within a few years of its founding many business leaders were its alumni and were hiring other alumni for starting positions in their firms. At its founding, the school accepted only male students. The Training Course in Personnel Administration , founded at Radcliffe College in 1937, was the beginning of business training for women at Harvard. HBS took over administration of that program from Radcliffe in 1954. In 1959, alumnae of

1209-548: The students' tuition if they work in Oklahoma for four years after graduating. The foundation has also brought at least 150 young teachers to Tulsa through the Teach for America program. Kaiser learned that poverty has a major effect on life expectancy. Before he became involved in funding health care, he was informed that there was a 14-year difference in life expectancy between children born in richest and poorest ZIP codes. Kaiser concluded that too few doctors were available to treat

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1248-506: The time. Under George's management, it became the 23rd largest nonpublic energy exploration company in the U.S. by 2010. In that year the company earned about $ 217 million, based on estimates by Bloomberg News. In 1990, Kaiser bought Bank of Oklahoma out of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation receivership. Despite BOK's depressed state, it was rich enough to land Kaiser on the Forbes 400 at one stroke. He has since expanded BOK from

1287-643: The top 5% of their year class. HBS students can join more than 90 different clubs and student organizations on campus. The Student Association (SA) is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. In addition, the HBS student body is represented at the university level by the Harvard Graduate Council . In 2015, executive education contributed $ 168 million to HBS's total revenue of $ 707 million. This included: The school's faculty are divided into 10 academic units: Accounting and Management; Business, Government and

1326-694: Was created in the 1940s by Kaiser's uncle and parents, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Oklahoma. George's father, Herman George Kaiser , had been an attorney in the district of the Kammergericht in Berlin until 1933, when he was dismissed by the Nazis because he was Jewish. He and his wife Kate then moved to Rostock where Herman Kaiser worked with his father-in-law Max Samuel 's EMSA-Werke company. Herman Kaiser escaped to England in 1937 and his wife and daughter came over in September

1365-687: Was established in 1908. Initially established by the humanities faculty, it received independent status in 1910, and became a separate administrative unit in 1913. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946). Yogev (2001) explains the original concept: The business school pioneered the development of the case method of teaching, drawing inspiration from this approach to legal education at Harvard. Cases are typically descriptions of real events in organizations. Students are positioned as managers and are presented with problems which they need to analyze and provide recommendations on. From

1404-515: Was instrumental in the funding of Tulsa's Woody Guthrie Center , which opened in 2013, and then in facilitating (together with the University of Tulsa ) the acquisition in 2016 of Bob Dylan 's 6,000-piece archive, which will be maintained by archivists at the university's Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum . The Kaiser family foundation is responsible for the initial funding leading to Tulsa's A Gathering Place. This park

1443-458: Was never built and Solyndra filed for bankruptcy in Fremont, California, on September 6, 2011. Kaiser is among those who have made The Giving Pledge , a commitment to give away half of his wealth for charitable purposes. Kaiser's philanthropy focuses on stimulating economic growth and combatting poverty with investments in early education and health care for people who need it the most. He

1482-523: Was no longer effective. Beginning with gifts from seventeen local philanthropists, by 2006 this foundation had grown to become the largest community foundation in the United States, and now has approximately four billion dollars in assets. Kaiser's family foundation funded the National Energy Policy Institute, a non-profit energy policy organization located at the University of Tulsa whose president since its inception

1521-476: Was ranked fifth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report , third in the world by the Financial Times , and second in the world by QS World University Rankings . Most full-time students study for an MBA, although doctoral programs are also undertaken. Executive education is provided, and online courses. Baker Scholars are those MBA students with academic honors over the two year course in

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