William W. George of Harvard Business School attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 26, 2013.
Harvard Business School students cheer during their graduation ceremonies in Boston, Massachusetts, in this June 4, 2009 file picture. Since the financial crisis, investment banks have lost some of their shine for the cream of the college crop. At Harvard Business School, only 7 percent of the Class of 2012 went into investment banking, down from 10 percent in 2010. To match story BANKS/GRADUATES.
Alvin Roth, 60, a Harvard Business School professor who is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University, reacts at the beginning of a class in economics after receiving a toast from students for being awarded a shared Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on market design at Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif., Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. He shares the prize with Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at UCLA.
Alvin Roth, 60, a Harvard Business School professor who is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University, enjoys a toast with graduate student, Dan Fragiadakis, right, and other students at the beginning of an economics class after it was announced he was awarded a shared Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on market design at Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif., Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. He shares the prize with Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at UCLA.
Alvin Roth, 60, a Harvard Business School professor who is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University, smiles as Stanford University provost, John Etchemendy, left, claps at a press conference announcing Roth's award of a shared Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on market design at Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif., Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. He shares the prize with Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at UCLA.
Journalists listen as from left, Per Krusell, Staffan Normark, Peter Gardenfors and Tore Ellingsen of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences present the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA, and Lloyd S. Shapley of University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, won the prize 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'.
