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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
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
like the color blue. Could insiders to corporate America not even recognize the invisible obstacles that outsiders face? What would happen if we named the unspoken rules and gave everyone the tools to play the game and play it well? View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
skill transfer—the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game By Andrew Binns, Charles A. O’Reilly III, and Michael L.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
says. “A lot of people want to go to a ball game and unplug and disconnect and rewind the clock. Then there are other people who are more interested in following the game at a deeper level. Our goal is to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
— a few years ago when a fair-weather fan turned them in during a spell when the now formidable Celtics were underperforming. Before and after games and at halftime, colleagues, former students, Celtics players, and any number of people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
WATANABE: A primer for all ages on how to think entrepreneurially. Photo Courtesy Portfolio/Penguin Group USA In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one another, and Ken Watanabe (MBA ’05) may be the latest guru in... View Details
- 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 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
- 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 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the tribe's View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
poverty." As the founder of One Earth Farms, Canada's largest farm, he partnered with First Nations in western Canada. When he created the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), it was First Nations that benefitted with jobs at a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
U.S. Naval Pentathlon Team for the 1995 Military World Games in Rome, Italy. Yet when asked what he considers to be his life's most significant achievements, Sanchez deflects the question. “I've been very fortunate; I haven't had to deal... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
factors like wind and water. “There are strategic and tactical elements to sailing,” says Dillon, a native of Ireland. “You need to decide where you want to go and what your competitors are doing. It’s kind of an interactive game that’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 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 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
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 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 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
from last year's Super Bowl—where a reported 36 percent of viewers watched the big game on TV with a small screen in hand—and explains which approaches score big and which ones fumble. GoDaddy: Husbands from around the world explain to... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
rounds. “Many physicians don’t have opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction,” Amadio says, “but we can’t afford not to be interdisciplinary. Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician. We have been at the medical View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley