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- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
control it.” Michah Holmes (MBA 2025)Micah comes to HBS from the National Football League’s highly selective rotational program and KPMG’s sports sponsorships team. Before HBS, he co-founded Overtime Sports Group, providing free youth... View Details
- Web
For Guests | Commencement 2025
Center in Aldrich. Parking Free parking will be available at HBS on Commencement Day in the Spangler surface lot and the SFP and OWA parking garages. Historically, the parking garages have had enough capacity to accommodate guests. Overflow parking is available at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts a new state–of–the–art View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
about candidates before they start predicts how they'll do once they're hired." Three that he cites in a recent article in The New Yorker are pro football quarterbacks, high-performing financial advisors, and teachers. Learning is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
they need to worry about attracting and retaining the best talent,” Toffel says. “Or why CEOs of companies that largely sell to Indiana residents, like the Colts football team and Pacers basketball team, might oppose the law to ensure all... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
organization. The case study was constructed on the basis of interviews with an organization in the administrative structure of European football, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and its major international sports... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
veteran employees as it does with the newcomer," he writes. Team-specific Roles Before recruiting stars, it's important to consider whether a star's position is especially dependent on team dynamics. In studying star American View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
football were also highlights. Breakfast in Spangler on Saturday morning with a friend was also a good way to end the week." Can you finish this statement? "My HBS experience was..." Reggie: "One of the most positive, life-changing... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
like Maria Sharapova, based in America. The list includes golfer Tiger Woods, basketball players Shaquille O'Neal and LeBron James, baseball players Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, football quarterback Peyton Manning, and soccer player... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
in the open field beside Harvard Stadium, across North Harvard Street from HBS, near the Newell Boathouse, where I was training for the Harvard crew. We could also see these buildings when we went to football games in the stadium. This... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer. It would be decades before Keen fully understood the role that growing things could play in educating others... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
footballer Michael Owen) and rooting for the Denver Broncos (her mom is a native, she explains). After completing her undergraduate degree at Wharton, Rapaport took on a range of investment banking roles. “I learned that I loved the... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
play football at Yale, which was a totally life-altering exercise for a kid like me. No kid from my high school had ever gone to a place like that, but it seemed to matter so much to the folks in my community. I’d go to church and the old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
at Harvard, he went to no football games. He had attended one in 1913, during his visit as an exchange professor at Columbia, and that was enough. He rode the subway that rumbles beneath Harvard Square exactly once. Incapable of driving a... View Details
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
background. When Bracken and I are with the kids at a football game, going out to dinner, or at a play, he and I will talk shop a bit. These conversations make me better and I hope I am returning the favor by providing a broader... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not rational—when considering whether to go to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
about the case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 706-413 Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A) What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
pages or as long as 100, was passed out earlier in the week but serious WAC work didn’t begin until Friday evening and then continued through Saturday — no Saturday football games! Typing began late Saturday afternoon and, unlike today,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons