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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now...
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- 18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
and his first book, Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary, is available for order through various online retailers. Today, Chad speaks to corporate audiences and professional athletes to help them develop resilience in the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Harvard's MBA/AD
Scalise helping Harvard fight fiercely. Mention Harvard and most people think of geniuses, not jocks. But with 41 varsity sports, 24 junior varsity teams, and more than 1,500 intercollegiate athletes, Harvard College has the nation's largest Division 1 View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital: family offices, “super angels”...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Police Athletic League in New York. And, over the past two years, he has served as a codirector of the HBS Partnership Sports Program with the nearby Taft Middle School. In this role, he devoted Saturdays to organizing activities, such as...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
the cockpit of my jet, I’m so keyed up I consciously try to slow myself down as I go through all the pre-launch procedures. Waiting to be catapulted into the darkness over the Arabian Sea, I’m not thinking about my mortality. I just feel butterflies in my stomach —...
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- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
future to have a better ecosystem, a better environment for sports. Dan: Why are sports important in this moment? What do they give us as a society, as a culture, that we need? Angela: It's a great question, and why I'm in this industry. Obviously as a four-time...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
independence benefits within the construct of a marriage and a family. Brad is very athletic and outdoorsy, so he heliskis with his dad and brother. I like documentary movies, and my girlfriends and I go to film festivals. What are some...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
best,” says Dillon, who plans to bring that same focus to her private-equity career in London and future athletic endeavors. — LR Libbie Landles-Dowling Authentic Leadership Landles-Dowling When Libbie Landles-Dowling went to work for...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
think we lost only one game and played about 10. A key reason was that we were able to attract high-caliber American athletes from other sports and turn them into rugby players. Murphy: The team's performance on the field surprised a lot...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
linebacker and serving for three consecutive years as special-teams captain, including at Super Bowl XL in 2006 (a 21-10 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers), Kacyvenski retired from the league in 2008 following brief stints with the Rams and Oakland Raiders. He became the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
shortly after his return from a fact-finding trip as an AID consultant assessing anti-Vietcong programs in rural Vietnam. Lodge, whose father was the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam at the time, says this daylong WAC discussion, held in a Harvard View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
happens on the mat.” Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and an expert in global branding, believes that Lululemon’s biggest accomplishment has been positioning itself as an upscale athletic leisure brand akin...
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
countries won medals than ever before, befitting the record number of athletes and nations that took part. What were the problem areas? For an event of this magnitude, perfection is elusive. Transportation delays were inevitable,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Research Online
which athletes won and lost in Turin, but what about the companies and individuals looking for business gold? Professor Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser looks at the results and the possibilities ahead for the Summer Games in China. New...
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- 15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Some Racquet
bachelor," the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger (July 12, 2001) observed, "For 24 years, Korff has worked to shrink the widening chasm between sports fans and their heroes by turning his [tennis] event into a week-long food and music festival." Explained Korff, "If you...
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