Gerald Schwartz, MBA '70, is the Founder and CEO of Onex Corporation. He has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Gerry Schwartz is Vice Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, a trustee of The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Chairman of its Canadian Friends, and a governor of Junior Achievement of Metro Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Manitoba, a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, and several Doctor of Laws (Hon.) degrees. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Heather Reisman, founder and CEO of Indigo Books and Music.

About the Collection

Gerald Schwartz believes the presence of provocative art promotes creative thinking, remembering that "artistic presence was the only thing missing at HBS when I went there. I wanted to change that." In 1998, Gerry Schwartz and a team from HBS together began purchasing contemporary art for the HBS buildings most frequented by students. Inspired by the growing collection, a small group of MBA students founded the HBS Art Appreciation Society in 2001. It quickly grew into one of the largest student clubs on campus, sponsoring events in Boston area galleries and museums, as well as an annual weekend in Manhattan to meet artists, tour exhibitions, and attend theater. The club's co-presidents accompany Mr. Schwartz on his annual buying trip to purchase additional art for the School's collection.

Books in the Baker Library Collection

Marina Abramovic : artist body performances 1969-1998 / with texts by Velimir Abramovic / Marina Abramovic; Charta Publishing, 1998.

Sites unseen: Shimon Attie European projects:installations and photographs / with an introduction by James Young / Shimon Attie; Verve Publishing, 1998.

Radcliffe Bailey The Magic City / curated by David Moos. / Radcliffe Bailey; Birmingham Museum of Art, 2001.

Front pages / Nancy Chunn; interview with the artist by Gary Indiana / Nancy Chun; St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Teun Hocks / Teun Hocks; Van Spijk Art Projects, 2001.

The art of Whitfield Lovell: whispers from the walls / text by Lucy R. Lippard / Lucy R. Lippard; Pomegranate Publishing, 2003.

Whitfield Lovell / essay by Dominique Nahas / Dominique Nahas, D.C. Moore Gallery; D.C. Moore Gallery, 2002.

"Photo-respiration" from Sakata: across the both milleniums / Sakata-shi:Bijutsukan; Sakata-shi:Bijutsukan, 1999.

Gazing into the light, Tokihiro Sato + Shigenobu Yoshiba / Iwaki Shiritsu Bijutsukan; Iwaki Shiritsu Bijutsukan, 1996.

Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project / Vivian Patterson, Rudolph Frederick, Denise Ramzy, Katherine Fogg; Aperture, in association with Williams College Museum of Art, 2000.

Fever: the art of David Wojnarowicz / Dan Cameron, Amy Scholder; Rizzoli Publishing, 1998.

Sharon Ya'ari / Sommer Contemporary Art, Lisson Gallery; Sommer Contemporary Art, 2002.

Zhang Hongtu: an on-going painting project / Jerome Silbergeld; On-going Publications, 2000.

Manual II, A selection of works 1986 -1996, Gregory Green / Gregory Green; Locus+ Publishing, 1996.

Alfredo Jaar: The Fire this Time, Public Interventions 1979-2005 / Mary Jane Jacob, Nancy Princenthal; Edizioni Charta, 2005.

Testimony: photographs by Gillian Laub / Lesley A. Martin, Francesca Richer, Matthew Pimm; Aperture Foundation Inc., 2007.

A Maine Portfolio: photographs by Michael Alpert / Michael Alpert; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 2004.

Bill Henson: lux et nox / Bill Henson; Scalo Zurich, 2002.

Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq / Steve Mumford / Steve Mumford; Chris Oliveros, 2005.

Shimon Attie: The History of Another / Shimon Attie; Twin Palms Publishers, 2004.

Art in the Collection

Abramovic, Marina / The Lovers (4 Shoes), 1988
Abramovic, Marina / The Lovers (4 Starhead), 1999
Adams, Mac / Dove, 1996
Adams, Mac / Flycatcher, 1997
Adams, Mac / Lunar Moth, 1997
Allen, Meredith / B.B. #3 (Penguin), 2004
Allen, Meredith / B.B. #5 (Parrot), 2004
Allen, Meredith / B.B. #7 (Red Robin), 2004
Alpert, Michael / Bar Harbor Steps, 1999
Alpert, Michael / Milford Walkway, 1999
Andrews, Stephen / Long Shot, 1998
Andrews, Stephen / Medium Shot, 1998
Apagya, Philip Kwame / Francis, 1996
Apfelbaum, Sally / Air (from Giverny), 1989
Apfelbaum, Sally / Giverny #15, 1989
Apfelbaum, Sally / Homage to Monet, 1989
Aptekar, Ken / To Appreciate His Great Masterpiece, 1994
Armstrong, L.C. / August 4, 1994, 6:35 AM, 1994
Armstrong, L.C. / August 5, 1994, 8:00 PM, 1994
Aronstein, Daniel / Flag Series, 2000
Attie, Shimon / Alstadtstrasse 43, plate 7, 1991
Attie, Shimon / Steinstrasse 22, Berlin: Slide projection of Jewish residents (1932), 1994
Attie, Shimon / Linienstrasse 137, Berlin, plate 10 from the series "Writing on the Wall", 1993
Attie, Shimon / Steinstrasse 21, Berlin, plate 19 from the series "Writing on the Wall", 1993
Attie, Shimon / On Via S. Angelo in Pescheria, on-location slide projection, Rome, Italy, 2003
Bailey, Radcliffe / Astro Beeing, 1995
Bailey, Radcliffe / Minor, 2003
Bamberger, Tom / California Homes, 2002
Becher, Max / The Americans of Samana (The English Teacher), 1999
Bell, Dozier / Conflict Series #10, 1998
Bell, Dozier / Conflict Series #19, 1998
Bell, Dozier / Conflict Series #7, 1998
Benes, Barton Lidice / Palette, 1994
Benglis, Lynda / Three Swanlake, 2002
Bischel, Mark / The Mystery of Separation, 2000
Bischel, Mark / North of Canal, 2002
Brooks, Ellen / White Crepe, 2002
Budman, Jim / Goo Goo, 1999
Bush, Andrew / Short Snorter - Irish (front), 1994
Caracciolo, Beatrice / Untitled, 1999
Carsley, Gary / MacArthur Park, 2007
Casebere, James / Flooded Hallway, 1999
Charlesworth, Sarah / Toile, 2005
Chartier, Jaq / 5 Stains / 10 Whites, 2005
Chervinsky, John / The Pitfalls of Measurement, 2006
Liao, Jeff Chien-Hsing / LIRR, Hunters Point, 2004
Chunn, Nancy / November 25, 1996, 1996
Chunn, Nancy / November 29, 1996, 1996
Cook-Dizney, Brett / Mahatma Ghandi, 2001
Cooley, Kevin / Grand Tetons, Driggs Idaho, 2007
Cooley, Kevin / Longyearbyen Overview, 2006
Davies, Sally / Painting No. 413 (Ralph Lauren Boot), 1994
Davies, Sally / Painting No. 749 (Eames Chair), 1994
Davies, Sally / Painting Number 538 (Movado Watch), 1994
Davies, Sally / Bryant Gumble Show, 2000
Davis, Lynn / Sphinx, Memphis, Egypt, 1997
Davis, Sarah / Interior 7 (7 of 9), 2004
Davis, Sarah / Interior 8 (8 of 9), 2004
Davis, Sarah / Interior 9 (9 of 9), 2004
De Muro, Mark / Lords Pond IV, 1998
Dingilian, Jim / Last Time, 2006
Dossett, TM / Philadelphia, 1996
Dow, Jim / Tray Station, Commons, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 2007
Dow, Jim / Harvard Hall (looking SW), The Harvard Club, NY, 2001
Dow, Jim / Mike's Place, US 61, Natchez, MS, 1978
Dow, Jim / The Marilyn Motel, Miracle Mile, Tucson, AZ, 1980
Dufresne, Angela / Me Lighting Lauren Bacall's Cigarette in "Written on the Wind", 2003
Dufresne, Angela / Rogers Town Anti Boredom Center! Non-Tourist Dune Shacks - Greece c. 2012, 2006
Dufresne, Angela / Cortina, 2006
Ellis, Steve / Crashed MGB, 2002
Eveleth, Emily / Break, 2003
Everton, Macduff / Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, 1994
Flanagan, Michael / Damascus, 1995
Flanagan, Michael / Easter Creek, 1995
Flanagan, Michael / White Stone Junction, 1995
Flechemuller, Jacques / Tie, 7/23/99, 1999
Flechemuller, Jacques / Horse Costume, 2002
Flechemuller, Jacques / Boy Oh Boy, 2001
Ford, Dan / Melville and Hawthorne Discovering the American Poesy, 2000
Ford, Dan / The Battle of Quebec, 1999
Galloway, Munro / Blooming, 2006
Galloway, Munro / Night Blooming, 2006
Gall, Sally / Bruges, 1992
Garfield, Peter / Mobile Home (Split Level), 1995
Giersbach, Cadence / Red Room Reiteration #1, 1998
Glantzman, Judy / Untitled, 1995
Granet, Ilona / Wedgewood World: The Last Picnic, 1996
Green, Gregory / Computer Virus Set (Timid, Kilroy, Intruder, Stealth), 1994
Gregg, Tom / The Red Apple, 1997
Gregg, Tom / Albert, 1997
Henson, Bill / Untitled, 2002
Herman, Brandon / Untitled (House on Hillside), 2007
Hido, Todd / Untitled, #1738, 2003
Hocks, Teun / Untitled (Man/Newspaper), 1999
Hocks, Teun / Untitled (Man/Typewriter), 1993
Hocks, Teun / Untitled (Man/Moon), 1993
Hocks, Teun / Untitled (Man/Desk), 1999
Hongtu, Zhang / Wang Jian-Cezanne, 2000
Hutchison, Heather / Wonder Woman, 2007
Jaar, Alfredo / Muxima (e), 2005
Jacobson, Bill / New Year's Day #4579, 2002
Jain, Vandana / Untitled (Lamb's Ear), 1998
Jain, Vandana / Untitled, (lotus pond), 1998
Jakobsen, Steinar / Demon Eye 1, 2005
Jakobsen, Steinar / Office, 2004
Jakobsen, Steinar / Skeleton Solar #2, 2003
Jakobsen, Steinar / Skeleton Solar #6, 2003
Jakobsen, Steinar / Skeleton Solar #7, 2003
Jurayj, John / Untitled (Ruin, 1991, #1), 2006
KahnSelesnick, / In Search of Peter Heaselboch, 1998
Keever, Kim / July 8., 2004
Kersels, Martin / Tossing a Friend (Patty), 1996
Kingsley, Diana / Lagoon, 1996
Koorland, Vivienne / Dark Poem Painting, 2005
Kozik, K.K. / October, 1995
Kremer, Shai / Defense Wall, Gilo Neighborhood, Jerusalem, 2004
Kremer, Shai / View of a minefield, abandoned Syrian base, Golan Heights, 2007
Kuehn, Suzanne / Die Dammerung: Ice, 1998
Kuehn, Suzanne / Die Dammerung: Water, 1998
Laing, Rosemary / Weather #10, 2006
Laub, Gillian / Yussie in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel, 2007
LeBoff, Gail / Misty Calm, 2004
LeBoff, Gail / Snow Night, 2004
Lederman, Stephanie Brody / Bare Bones, 2004
Lederman, Stephanie Brody / The Music of Mortal Lives, 2002
Lichtenstein, Miranda / Untitled #10 (From Danbury Road Series), 1998
Linnenbrink, Markus / Zimmerinthedeadsea, 2003
Lovell, Whitfield / Strive, 2000
Lundsager, Eva / Star Remains, 1997
Lundsager, Eva / Yellow Rose, 1995
Magsig, Stephen / 80 Greene Street, 2001
Massey, John / Augustus John Crying, 1995
Mayhew, Fritz / Chelsea Houseboat, 1998
Mayhew, Fritz / Twilight, 1999
McAuley, Skeet / Barton Creek Country Club, Fazio course 18th hole, Austin TX, 1993
McCleary, Dan / Untitled, 1999
Melamed, Brad / You Are Everything (Waterlily), 2004
Melamed, Brad / Study for: Perception Changing Materiality (Waterlily), 2004
Minotto, Paul / Not Nothing, But a Replica of Nothing, 1995
Mull, Martin / As if No One Saw It Coming, 1998
Mumford, Steve / Pfc Abraham Thomas Riley, 1st Platoon, Alpha Co., 2-63 Armor, Baqubah, July 2004, 2004
Mumford, Steve / Sgt. Nick Pritsolas, 1st Platoon, Alpha Co., 2-63 Armor, Baqubah, July 2004", 2004
Mumford, Steve / Soldiers Playing Dominoes: Spc Gregory Booth, unknown, Pfc. Abraham Thomas Riley, Bridge, FOB Scunion, Baqubah, July 2004, 2004
Muniz, Vik / Individuals (from "Pictures with Chocolate", 1998
Muniz, Vik / Lincoln (After Brady) (from Pictures of Ink), 2000
Nes, Adi / Job and Friends, 2006
Nettles, Darrell / P-28, 2004
Nix, Lori / Lost: Natural History, 2005
Nix, Lori / Accidentally Kansas: Circleville, 1999
ParkeHarrison, Robert and Shana / Reclaimation, 2003
Parks, Graham / Spring has hundreds of flowers, 2004
Raff, Orit / Untitled (Desk #7), 1999
Ribner, Naomi / Tea for Two IV, 1990
Rich, Ilona Malka / Jack, 1998
Rika, Noguchi / The Sun #4, 2006
Romberger, James / Sale on Ludlow Street, 2000
Romberger, James / Marguerite in 2A, Night, 2002
Rosler, Martha / Untitled (JFK), 1990
Rosler, Martha / Untitled (O'Hare), 1990
Rosler, Martha / Untitled (Seattle), 1990
Ross, Clifford / Harmonium Mountain II, 2007
Salcedo, Doris / Istanbul Project I, 2003
Sandrow, Hope / Untitled Observations, Commencing 7pm., Mecox Inlet to Atlantic Ocean, Southhampton, New York, from the Series Spacetime", 2005
Sato, Tokihiro / #384, Kokuritsu-Soko 2, 1999
Sato, Tokihiro / #63, 1990
Shambroom, Paul / Lewiston, Minnesota (population 1,405), City Council, March 10, 1999. (L to R): Roger Layfenburger (..., 1999
Shteynshleyger, Anna / Untitled Steps from Siberia Series, 2002
Simonson, Suzanne / Winter-silence, 2006
Stewart, David / Six Feet Under, 2003
Stewart, David / Retiring, 2003
Strba, Annelies / An II, 1998
Sultan, Larry / Untitled (from the series Pictures from Home), 1999
Tompkins, Timothy / 4.28.02 (After Klimt), 2006
Van Cook, Marguerite / Lateral Dommages, 2004
Vega, Carlos / What a Wind, 2007
Vega, Carlos / Laws of Motion, 2003
Wallace, Ryan / Conduit of This and Adoration, 2006
Wasserman, Martabel / Tea Time with Daisy, 2003
Wayne, Leslie / Cannibal III, 2004
Weems, Carrie Mae / Untitled, from The Louisiana Project, 2003
Weems, Carrie Mae / Untitled Outtake from The Kitchen Table Series (At Table with Homework, edition 3 of 5), 1999
Weems, Carrie Mae / Untitled Outtake from The Kitchen Table Series (Lobster), 1999
Weems, Carrie Mae / The Hush of Your Silence from, "Who What When Where", 1998
Weiss, Jessica / Portrait (on Stage), 2001
Weiss, Marjorie / Chestertown's Shore, 2000
Weiss, Marjorie / Field Day (Chestertown), 2000
Weiss, Marjorie / Mr. Logans Search for Shadow, 2000
White, Charlie / The Interloper, 2003
White, Wayne / We Peered Down Its Dark Layers…, 2002
Wilson, Amy / Awake from your Slumber, 2004
Wilson, Amy / Invasion, 2004
Wojnarowicz, David / Untitled (Time/Money) from the Ant Series, 1988
Wood, William / Untitled, 2007
Ya'ari, Sharon / Dobrozin, 2001
Yokose, Hiro / Untitled, (2749), 1999