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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
Foundation. "I'm working hard on becoming a ranked senior tennis player to make up for my nonathletic youth," Brody says. "I also enjoy coaching my eight-year-old son's soccer team on weekends." Brody, who... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work as a consultant and was then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
designed an innovative field-study course called Consulting and Management Practice. The course provided student teams with intensive faculty coaching on projects with actual clients. Turner cites the course... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also earned... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
HBS. From there he landed in Johannesburg, where he’s been based for more than two decades. His message: that honest, personal stories can go a long way in instilling values and bringing teams together. His work runs the gamut from View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
Chrissie Gorman (MBA 2012) created PowerForward with Duke basketball legend Coach K. to bring leadership and team-development lessons from sports to the business world. In this video, she explains the ground rules of View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
you listen to the fans, you’ll wind up sitting with them. But what if a generation of fans has been brought up to game plan like coaches and build rosters like general managers, with skills honed by playing video games and fantasy sports?... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
alongside a team and asking that one simple question: ‘What can I do to help?’ “My career path that got me to become a leadership coach is, I took a year and moved to Africa and volunteered in an AIDS... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
team at the Y,” Gelman says. “It’s incredibly fun.” Coaching is a central aspect of her role at KAGR, both in leading a fast-growing company (which doubled in size each of its first two years) and in her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
more visible — lessons than do other endeavors is subject to debate. (Popular HBS cases include ones about Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, the West Point crew team, and the NFL’s New England Patriots.) Still, Bruins fans can be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
business teams experience. “We pursued the idea for the case,” he says, “after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher there, told me about his friend, the Army crew coach, Stas Preczewski. One season, View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
able to manage a team in a high-stakes environment every day. This role requires that I look at data regularly to identify what practices are working and coach each member of my View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
valuable resources: their leaders and employees. Today, the personal coaching industry is a $1 billion business in the United States, up more than 40 percent since 2011. Schlatka, who has worked part-time as an executive View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. But something was missing in his life, so... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family moved to Palo Alto when Pitch was... View Details