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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Last Look
pennies. The game (called rayuela in Spanish, Henriquez points out) is a competition to see who can toss a coin closest to a wall or line (in this case, the opposite bricks lining the pathway) without hitting or crossing it. The winner... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Walking the TalkTalk
“super ambitious and ridiculously hard-working,” Diana (“Dido”) Harding (MBA ’92) also confessed that she “would be competitive over a game of tiddlywinks. And I have always tended to push myself to do something I wasn’t sure I could do —... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
impossible for me to answer this question without sounding hyperbolic, but the reality is VR has the potential to dramatically transform how we live, work, and socialize. Today, VR’s consumer experiences are mostly related to games and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
result, the necessary government and corporate support was forthcoming, morale among organizers and volunteers was boosted, and the XIX Winter Olympic Games in February were a rousing success. Romney's star has risen accordingly and with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first investment was in FLYR’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
kids, and now the grandkids and a few tag-along couples who just watch,” said Debbie Avery, wife of Tom Avery (MBA 1977). “Our kids play in the games and the grandchildren are in training.” The adventure found the group touring Tokyo, Mt.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music that attract users to social... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
success takes yrs.” Some alumni offered advice, like Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15, 2013), who said, “I think Pokemon GO needs to leverage their geocaching service with local commerce to monetize the experience.” Cimarron Buser (MBA 1988) agreed, tweeting: “Pokemon GO needs... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 26 Jun 2008
- News
The First HBS Class Notes
Harvard Clubs. Mr. Hite, the subject of the first class note, is third from the left. The same issue has lively photos of an impromptu baseball game during an HBS Alumni Association outing in Swampscott, Massachusetts. "Showing 'em how... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Howe says. In developing nations, he notes that it could be game changing, "particularly in places lacking infrastructure, where sunlight is abundant." Ubiquitous Energy began as a class project while Howe was a student at HBS. Howe's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
as avatars) for use by both organizations and individuals. New York: TwoChop (Mo Lam, MBA ’05, founder) is a microgaming platform that plans to deliver “quick-engagement” games to users throughout the day. Northern California: Redbeacon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
the pin. At the Sochi Games in 2014, I knew all the women’s hockey players and was close to the action. It felt like I was still part of the team, but obviously I wasn’t. It was so hard. Being a student at HBS helped me make the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
fans were forced by FIFA to remove their pants before entering the stadium. As a result, hundreds of fans watched the game in their underwear. Needless to say, the Dutch brewery reaped a marketing bonanza. For the big athletic equipment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
bet on an HBS graduate who has no direct experience in the field, but who has a strong business background and a deep interest in how talent and organizational decisions drive performance. The game changers in this field will have strong... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
questions were generated by that odd ritual, the recruiting event. Her visit was sponsored by MBA Career Services. “You really have to be on your game in a recessionary economy,” Smith cautioned a gathering of about fifty students. “Make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019 and 2020, says he was working in finance while Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping oar strokes synchronized has been compared to “eight people trying to do the perfect golf... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
R. Watson (MBA ’66) Mt. Vernon, NY The March issue’s “Last Look” photo inspired several e-mail responses, including two that appear below. Games HBS Students Play When I was growing up in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in the 1930s and 1940s,... View Details