Rock Center Dedication
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| Arthur Rock (right) with HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Photo by Stuart Cahill |
In June, members of the HBS community gathered to thank Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) for his recent $25 million gift and to dedicate The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Praising Rock as a pioneering San Francisco–based venture capitalist, Dean Kim B. Clark observed, “In everything he’s done, Arthur Rock has embodied integrity, excellence, and the importance of investing in the future. It was important to me that this center carry his name.”
Rock’s gift will support the School’s extensive research, teaching, and course development in entrepreneurship. The HBS Entrepreneurial Management unit now has more than thirty faculty members, making it one of the largest academic areas at the School, responsible for teaching over twenty courses.
As part of the celebration of the new center, three members of the HBS entrepreneurship faculty presented their research in Hawes Hall. Tom Eisenmann discussed digital networks, Clark Gilbert presented research on corporate innovation, and Stig Leschly shared insights on education reform. Rock then answered questions about his life and career, stressing the importance of ethics, hiring good people, and intellectual honesty. “Ego is a great killer,” he observed, “but I don’t know how you build a company without it.”
