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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
wonder of the open seas. “Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. A competitive sailor who raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and... 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
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
spreadsheet.” The situation comes to a head when Keller is faced with a difficult decision. A Sunday meeting is scheduled in preparation for an important client presentation. On the same Sunday, he has plans to attend a long-anticipated college football View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A business career comes full circle
including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers, and Game of Thrones. In 2013, McGee returned to HBS to become a senior lecturer in business administration. “The opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
sports fashion), Love's new magazine, Amy Love's REAL SPORTS, offers analysis of teams and players, methods for improving game skills and performance, and profiles of sports heroines. With an eye to the more than thirty million... 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 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
occasion to reveal that Doerr’s firm has created a $100 million “iFund” to encourage programmers to develop all manner of software, from games to business, for the iPhone; Kleiner Perkins will back promising new iPhone ideas and the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and deliver merchandise to human packers. “We’re changing the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
with the foster kids there reinforced for me the power of coaching as a platform for teaching positive values and life skills, all while being involved in a game I love. A few years later, I began volunteer coaching the Illinois Warriors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Start-Up Success
to provide some Longhorn representation.) Partying is part of the scene, but “the competition aspect is really the main attraction,” said team organizer James Gowers (MBA '01). “Despite the fact that we didn't have the best talent and hadn't played together before —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
could tell right away if he had a couple of tickets for the Giants game on Saturday,” Baer recalls. “He’d give me a little nod, and I’d know — yes! — we would be going to Candlestick to watch Willie Mays play center field.” Fast-forward a... 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 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
video, including games from some of the country's best playground leagues. "We want to be the No. 1 online basketball destination," said O'Neil, who cut his teeth in the sports business working in sales for the Philadelphia Eagles and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Lone Star Star
forgotten about. Albertville was really a watershed." He expressed great admiration for the current crop of skaters preparing for February's Games in Salt Lake City, particularly their mastery of the quadruple jump. "I tried three times... View Details