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- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
earned him an athletic scholarship at Stanford. “I was never as good a runner as my dad, but I learned a lot from him,” says Johnson, 84, who moves around very well considering he recently had both knees replaced. The teachings were not...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Kilimanjaro
athletic adventurers — the majority had run marathons — spent six days trekking through a variety of landscapes, weather conditions, and challenges to reach the summit at 19,340 feet. At a slide show of the trek that climbers gave in...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases
player and athlete who was one of the first in his family and community to attend college, McArthur channeled his athletic drive into academics at HBS, earning an MBA in 1959 and a DBA in 1963. He then...
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Susan Young
- 07 Jan 2020
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Models of Success
education and support they needed to use sports as a lever to change their lives,” Feickert says. That revelation led her to cofound Trey Athletes, a social enterprise that creates cohorts of high-potential high school athletes and...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top of her chosen field,...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
in their pool on a gorgeous, sunny day was such a gift." "Jen is the girl next door," wrote Scott Soshnick, a reporter for Bloomberg News. "She's your sister. She's your friend, not some world-class athlete with ungodly stamina. People...
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- 27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success
would become Trey Athletes, a leadership-development program for high-potential high school athletes that Feickert founded with Brian Reynolds, a college classmate who had seen similar outcomes among his high school basketball teammates...
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April White
- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Creative Industries.” Elaborating, Owusu-Kesse says that while he doesn’t manage big-name athletes or Hollywood performers, “I work with a young staff at HCZ that is responsible for shaping the lives of at-risk children. To succeed, they...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
school in the United States and a son and daughter at home outside London, David manages the household, and Carroll keeps connected through modern technologies. She checks in, often from a very different time zone, asking about homework assignments, piano practice, and...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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For NFL Players, 3rd Down at HBS
Twenty-eight National Football Leagueplayers representing teams from across the league were recently on campus for an Executive Education program that addresses the unique business opportunities and challenges that players face during and after their professional...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
House Raft Race. Harvard professor Robert Kiely says this race of jerry-rigged craft was already in place when he became master of Adams House in 1973. Lore has it that athletically challenged Adams House decided to create a “sport” in...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; and administrative offices, including...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
day they arrive for overnight delivery. Mixon has also turned Invacare's talents and resources into other activities that help its customers. For years the company has lobbied for the passage of legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act. It sponsors many...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
outcome.” As an accomplished sailor, what parallels, if any, do you see between sailing and your career? “I think athletics always have close parallels to business. Some examples I have noticed throughout my (very short) career include:...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as a tribute to Gordon, a lifelong View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Dec 2020
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HBS Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List
featured in the HBS alumni podcast, Skydeck; Tess Michaels (MBA 2020), founder of Stride Funding, which offers income share agreements—a student loan alternative—"mostly to STEM grad students,” notes Forbes; and Melcolm Ruffin (MBA 2020), head of View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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He’s Back
Formerly NBA senior vice president for business and league operations, Dennis Robinson (MBA ’90) is the new president and CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, overseer of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which Robinson led for a time in the late 1990s....
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