Connell family donates $10M to HBS
The family of the late William F. Connell, M.B.A. ’63, has donated an additional $10 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) to establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Program Innovation Fund. The gift will help support the School’s efforts in curriculum innovation, focusing specifically on the second year of the M.B.A. program. Connell was the founding chairman and CEO of the Boston-based Connell Limited Partnership, a group of manufacturing companies doing business principally in the automotive, energy, mining, construction, and agricultural sectors Connell, who grew up in Lynn, Mass., the son of a bus driver, died in August 2001 at the age of 63. In the spring of 2001, he received Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award, the highest recognition HBS can bestow upon a graduate. His wife, Margot, taught math and science in elementary schools in New York and California after graduating from Michigan State University in 1963. She...