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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
soccer shoe Adidas developed especially for the World Cup. "Our mission is to be the number-one maker of athletic equipment in the world," he says, "and this is truly an athletic shoe, unlike most of the sneakers you see on the street that will never be used in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
companies that are case studies in surmounting competitive threats and fostering community pride. Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991) relishes a good fight. During his first prep school wrestling practice, his coach put the inexperienced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
all-consuming. He makes time for family and outside pursuits. As his three children grew, he coached his daughters’ soccer teams and attended his son’s recitals. And he is deeply committed to a number of philanthropic causes. Klarman... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
executive coach and speaker Matt Spielman guides readers through straightforward questions designed to reorient your perspective and refocus your efforts on realizing happiness and fulfilment in life. You will also learn to create a... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
both have enjoyed the flexibility to raise our two sons, from coaching soccer to building haunted houses for Halloween to inviting the boys and their friends to be interns at the company. Now our eldest son serves as VP of sales and will... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
college age, Berglund dusted off his lifelong dream once more. "My coaching and scoutmaster days were over, business was becoming routine, and I had the energy and desire for another great challenge. I asked my children how they felt... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
New Career Tools for Alumni
submit. “We’re pleased with the way the database expands the value proposition to alumni and employers,” says Christine Sullivan, director of Alumni Career & Professional Development. The Hub also offers alumni the ability to search for a position, schedule an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
Ellison: Teaching is "in my DNA." Courtesy Ed Ellison After graduating from HBS and spending several years at Salomon Brothers and CS First Boston, Ed Ellison (MBA ’91) left Wall Street to go into education because “teaching and coaching... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
to, take sales calls if necessary, and wear any hat required to help Yahoo realize its mobile ambitions.” What drew you to team management, turnarounds, and technology? What commonalities, if any, does each area share? “I like coaching... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
basketball-based fitness clinics at more than 225 schools, training coaches and getting more than 140,000 students on the court. Africa First office opened: 2010 (Johannesburg) As evidenced by the six African players on NBA rosters, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
experiences before they need them plays out in many fields other than business. The coach of one of my favorite basketball teams while I was growing up was always driven to win and to win big. As one of his biggest fans, I loved watching... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
exposure to the extent possible by leveraging existing assets...and then go for it. In other words, much of the process — recognizing opportunity and marshaling ways to respond to it — could be taught to anyone. “Practicing with a coach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
technology that offers personalized instruction, is what I hope will come out of this. Do you see online learning dominating the education sector 10 to 20 years from now, or will there be a more blended approach given that socialization and View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
proclaims, is the pursuit of impact absent available resources, boy did we define that! “I’ve kept a journal for almost 40 years now. And in 1991 I wrote in that journal about the Make-a-Difference Company; it was a new entity that was going to use my experiences in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
work. I hadn’t thought about that. And I saw this in a pretty vivid way, actually first at the Seattle Seahawks, the football team in Seattle, with Coach Pete Carroll talking about it and trying to get employees to think about their... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
mobility, retail, entertainment, nonprofit, and education, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways—respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution—for turning episodic interactions into continuous... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
in a remote area of Tunisia, near the border with ISIS-occupied territory in Libya. “We’re coaching civil servants there on developing agriculture—the production of cork and essential oils—for international markets. “Identifying assets... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg