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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
The Amazing Race. Dubbed Team Chippendales by their rivals, the openly gay couple won the television audience’s favor and took the top prize in a 44,000-mile race across four continents. “In the last leg, the two overcame Arndt’s reckless driving, skydived from 10,000... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
mixers I’ve attended. I still do not understand why the Super Bowl is such a huge event and I have yet to come to terms with American football having much less foot involvement than real football - oops,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics In 2015, Dietmar Hopp, owner of Germany’s Bundesliga football team TSG Hoffenheim and co-founder of the global enterprise software company SAP, was considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
Francisco 49ers football team, and Grousbeck, CEO of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. The fund focuses on sports media content, an industry headed to $60 billion in revenue, according to the Causeway partnership. Higgins says the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is one of the highest-paid coaches in the National Football League; Forbes in 2013 estimated his salary as $7.5 million. His track record helps explain the high compensation: Belichick is the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2024
had a chance to go into Michigan's football stadium and kick some field goals down on the field which was super unique and a lot of fun with the ~400 others there." - Ian Naccarella, MBA 2025 "I found ClimateCAP an incredible opportunity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
eventually found my way. By the time I was done, some of the players—who had also faced adversity—were in tears. Two months later I was named team chaplain. + SKYDECK web-only content Wilkins describes what it’s like to lead football... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- Portrait Project
Maxene Tuchman
"A kid got shot at the football game on Friday. Is he one of your students?" I was a teacher at Miami Northwestern High School, and my Teach For America summer training had not prepared me for the phone call I received from a... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
something about this problem and utilize sports for societal change,” says Reynolds. The pair ran a pilot program for five of the nation’s top high school football players on Chicago’s South Side during Feickert’s second year. In the fall... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
Michael Traill’s (MBA 1987) change-of-life moment came early one sleepless Saturday morning in 2001. He found himself staring at the clock, which read 5:56 a.m., unable to sleep, too troubled by the plight of a boy he was coaching on his son’s Aussie Rules View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
the football team and a member of the varsity track squad. After earning his AM (1933) and Ph.D. (1934) in economics from Harvard, he taught economics at Williams College from 1935 to 1949. In 1948, Fox took a one-year leave of absence... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football... View Details
- Profile
Malory Mclemore
will talk about football and life over a beer. My dad served the community as a Hoover firefighter for 30 years. There are a few local restaurants that he loves, and he knows the owners and employees well, so I get to feel like a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
offices and 14,000 associates. In the St. Petersburg area, the James name can be found on the Tampa football stadium in addition to numerous educational, health-care, and arts institutions. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
share the stories of others doing the same thing so that you can see different ways to apply each C to your own situation. Each of the 5 Cs plays some role in every leadership journey—even in my season as QB of my peewee football team.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
further incentive for advertisers to use it for public relations as well as advertising purposes.” 6 Thus, readers of Fortune magazine would see William Rittase’s documentary images of workers and factories in its editorial pages, and his “commercial” work—such as a... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship — and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale, an unexpected opportunity... View Details