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- 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
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of all time” demonstrated an early penchant for competition. A peripatetic Army brat, Porter was an all-state football and baseball player in New Jersey before majoring in aerospace engineering at Princeton (where he finished first in his... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007, Marc was still confined to a wheelchair, but the Miami project had developed into the world's largest spinal cord injury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
into being. I write about in the book, my freshman year at Yale, the freshman football players. We staged a coup against the upperclassmen because the team really sucked, and the upperclassmen were just really not good at their jobs, and... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
who tackled me in football to break my leg, he was the one on my team who was behind me who threw a log and hit me from behind. JH: Oh jeez. BW: And it changed my personality for the latter years of high school. So I became sort of, I... 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
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about this with our boys. Our children don't think this is abnormal. There are many, many, baseball games, soccer games, violin... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
“More on this” and “Nacho.” 2003I: Less in the classroom and more on the football field, we cheered “Ole, ole, ole, ole, say I, say I.” 2004D used to have a cheer for one of our sectionmates. Every time our professors or guest lecturers... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
graduating from the University of British Columbia as a professional football player in Canada.) No wonder I loved the man and would do anything for him!” By the way, the ship’s clock and barometer are now proudly above my desk at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
pagri (turban) was part of the school uniform. On special occasions, we wore the sherwani. The ancient equestrian game of neza bazi (tent pegging) native to the region was played alongside acquired sports of cricket, football and squash.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
think that you know, in my life, you know, I was a math nerd and a football player. Kind of ... DM: [laughs] JI: ... okay? I was a math nerd ... DM: It's a rare breed. JI: ... a very rare breed [laughing]. But I loved problem-solving. But... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
general topic of space exploration. Do you have any deeper connections to the topic? A: Well, like many little boys, I always wanted to be an astronaut (on the days when I didn't want to be a football player). But I did take my childhood... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
sister live like boxcar children on her disability checks. When Casey, following in the footsteps of his father, is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success... View Details