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- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
As birthday parties go, this one was special. The faculty canceled classes, and the administrative staff collectively stepped away from their desks to join in daylong festivities marking the School’s 100th birthday on April 8. A big-top-style tent erected over the Shad... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
opened the James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences. A trustee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, James has funded numerous programs that encourage youth to get involved in the sport. If there is one endeavor in which Tom James... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
and 16. Helping them to grow up as young adults gives me a great sense of accomplishment,” she says. A former competitive tennis player, Herlaut regularly hits the courts with her girls, and she is readying to run the Paris Marathon for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; and administrative offices, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
handwritten pages of Class Notes) to come to his home in nearby West Newton. But Brigham, 92, will hear nothing of it. “It’s just a short drive down the Pike,” he says. Hip replacement surgery has done little to slow down Brigham, who played View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
those opportunities.” An excellent tennis player, Burke volunteered to teach the sport as a teenager in Milwaukee’s inner city. “It taught me a lot,” she said. “You see kids with a passion for life and talents and you know if they could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Levitt never let up on his students, he never let up on himself, either, continuing to work and play tennis even as his body failed. “He loved tennis, but it was a constant struggle for him,” remembers his son Peter. “We held his memorial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
up with John J. Burns (MBA 1955). Members of the Class of 1960 participated in a lively classroom discussion on "Changing Technology and the New Economy". The Class of 1955 made time for a tennis tournament. Hamming it up are 1965... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
interactions with each other are at the heart of this education.” Among the changes that Shad General Manager Sue LaRose has seen during re-opening is the appointment system for the facility and the tennis courts. “Members make a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
firm believer in the Club Med philosophy. An avid tennis player and equestrian, he says that "when you clock a seventy-hour workweek, you need some fun in your life to make it all worthwhile." As for Giraud, the Club Med way is in his... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
benefit a wide variety of businesses, however, Sviokla offered a word of caution. "If you dive into the marketspace," he told the OPM graduates, "you have to expect that things are going to move very quickly." Golf and tennis tournaments,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
that are big enough to keep them interested. "Another concern is staying nimble," he continues. "Someone in a garage right now is inventing a product that could be threatening to me. It's important to stay paranoid and avoid complacency." Which isn't to say Ranadivé... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
to incorporate all these needs into "an urban village," which would also include a library, a Head Start facility, a swimming and tennis center, a performing arts annex, and a community services center. "All of a sudden the whole thing... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
activities in her hotel room. That Maria—who was 21 or 22 at the time—was able to address a room full of journalists at the UN and take questions about the war in Bosnia was eye-opening. I learned that, yes, she's an amazing tennis player... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
Louis, no one talks fast. She talked fast, you know, and I'm tilted over, you know, I'm sort of, I lean forward, like you're in a tennis position or, you know, I don't stand up straight. My mother didn't stand up straight. And she rhymed.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
when things seemed particularly bleak, Owens unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. The result... View Details