That meant a lower-middle-class life in one of the world's richest cities. Brilliant and bookish, Grace enrolled at Barnard when she was sixteen, and earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1940 at Bryn Mawr, steeping herself in the work of Kant and Hegel, and writing a dissertation on the influential pragmatist George Herbert Mead.
The words of one of his dissertation advisers proved influential: "If you don't pursue justice here, it will eat away at you forever".
Lepore's former boss Michael Porter was not the only supernova at the Harvard Business School in the nineteen-eighties; his colleague the late Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (my dissertation adviser), was profoundly influential.
Far more influential, however, were the Lettres (short dissertations on political, moral, and literary matters), which appeared in numerous editions and were continually expanded from 1624.
The thesis became influential.
Petraeus recruited as lead drafters his West Point classmate Conrad Crane, the historian, and John Nagl, whose dissertation at Oxford became the influential book "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam".
Ms. Hui was a fan of Sebald before embarking on the project, saying, "His work was influential on the development of my ideas for the dissertation, and the topic evolved partly out of my engagement with his books".
He was chairman of my dissertation committee and one of the two most influential people in shaping how I think about public finance.
Mr. Schmidt was born in Brooklyn and attended Colgate and Harvard, where he wrote his dissertation for his doctorate in Slavic languages on the influential Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
