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founder and CEO of Pershing Barracks Capital, discusses his battlefield experience—and how it shaped his approach to business My First Job Alumni share stories, strategies, and lessons learned from their first jobs—from golf club caddy to... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Activate Program Peter Gumulia Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

to do what must be done for the common good, including those on the front lines.” Yamato donates to rebuilding devastated areas Makoto Kigawa, CEO of Yamato—a home delivery service of everything from fresh food to skis and golf clubs—sent... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

engage in experiences that allow them to see more dimensions of their personalities. For example, go on a road trip or partake in an activity that neither of you have done before. See how each of you make decisions together like where to eat lunch or which trail to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Peter Gumulia

Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national golf team when he was only... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

to address today’s pressing challenges. Rainmaker: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf from Tiger to LIV and Beyond By Hughes Norton (MBA 1972) and George Peper Atria Books When 21-year-old Tiger Woods stunned... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1996
News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Portrait Project

Auden Laurence

sister. The next three years passed pleasantly, filled with Bob books and park days together. But our parents’ divorce rocked our safe, sweet world. My mom moved us south to be near family. Barely three, my sister was fragile, uncertain where home was for her. Despite... View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

people trying to do the perfect golf swing at the same time, all together, 200 times in a row." Like most of his peers, Coach P used a variety of quantifiable metrics for each rower to determine who would sit in the varsity boat.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

of the many actions a CEO could take during the course of a day—attending meetings, reviewing a marketing campaign, schmoozing clients on the golf course. So Sadun and her colleagues instead divided up activities with a much simpler... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

Woods's decision to change his golf swing, DeLong's daughter Sara's decision to stay in medical school while she fought lymphoma, and managers who struggled alongside him throughout his career. Despite his concerns about opening up,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

take 1955 (with the IBM 701) as the start date and use eighty years as a technology cycle, 2035 may not be far off the mark for playing much of this out. Even then, the special recombinant nature of this technology makes us uncomfortable calling an end date. We wish... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

The old boys’ club is alive and well in the workforce, as male employees regularly schmooze with their male bosses during coffee breaks, after-work drinks, and golf outings. All this socializing gives men a huge career advantage over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

bloated bureaucracy and constipated decision-making. Clearly dysfunctional activities,even in fun, such as a sales vs. marketing golf tournament at the national sales meeting, are to be discouraged.— Benson Shapiro Information technology... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

quickly. This series will take you inside the world of carbon capture, guided by innovators and experts at the forefront of the movement who will help you understand what is possible. Can we really engineer a climate fix? But first, we're going to hit the View Details

Career Coach

Shahaan (Haan) Razak

student in education, medicine, and business). He is also confident in discussing life transitions and family planning as he has navigated his non-traditional path as a husband and father of three. If you also enjoy hearing all about the Miami Heat or have tips on... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Utopian Vision

dentists who got lucky on the stock market.” The development plan calls for a golf course with villas, a luxury boutique hotel, farms, a nature preserve and science research center, and a beach village with a nearby artists’ colony. Curry... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Real Estate

Profile

Hiroshi Mikitani

categories. By allowing the merchants such freedom, Rakuten has tapped into a Japanese sensibility that is attracted to the individuality of each merchant. For example, golf, a hugely popular pastime in Japan, has tapped deeply into Rakuten. The individual View Details

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Accessibility - Commencement 2025

your guest have specific needs. In addition, listed below are some additional resources that are specific to the HBS campus. HBS Campus Golf Carts Golf carts will be available on a campus loop before and... View Details

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