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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Offerings: “It’s one thing to write a book; a film feels even more public. But then I decided to just have fun with it.” [music] In the same vein, Kim, a diehard Yankees fan, hasn’t given up on his dream of owning a professional baseball... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
the owner. And, of course, on the personal side, having a wife and family sets up a whole new list of priorities that weren't present at graduation. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the demands of your career? Owning a View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
school, he says, and sold bubblegum and baseball cards to his classmates over lunch. Later, Mason enrolled in Howard University’s premed program but switched to the business program by the second semester. There, earning his degree in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
preparing to realize that dream. After attending Brigham Young University on a baseball scholarship and serving as a missionary in Kiev, Ukraine, Whitney went to work at Highland Capital Partners in order to strengthen his HBS... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
start in the world of sports. Because, in baseball they stop selling alcohol at the seventh inning, but you can still buy a Bud Zero,” CEO Whitworth said in a Zoom interview last fall. A few weeks later, just days before the start of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
hour. I stayed for three years. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) Purchase Power Waking up at 5 a.m. to deliver papers by bike in all of Boston’s seasons: That was memorable. But being able to buy my first pack of baseball cards on my own, as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
players. But as much as the Toronto native loved hockey, baseball offered an even greater data set—perfect for the burgeoning math whiz. “I was interested in sabermetrics before it was even a word,” says Tippett (MBA 1985). Today, it’s a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
the city's most recognizable landmarks" filled with video and arcade games, where, for example, "electronic baseball games await players in a circular room designed like Yankee Stadium." Broadway City recalls the game parlors Simon's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
“The pressure for more safety via better equipment is a continuing phenomenon: at one time ice hockey goalies didn’t wear masks, and baseball and hockey players didn’t wear helmets. Although injuries are widely accepted as part of sports,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
continues to grow in North America, that performance data will play a major role in how those take shape.” —Angela Ruggiero Chris Marinak (MBA 2008), Executive Vice President for Strategy, Technology, and Innovation at Major League View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
was the worst kid on the team because he’d never played baseball. He didn’t have a father to throw a baseball with. So, after practice he was crying, because he was aware that he was the worst person on the team. They stuck him into... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
Rescued in the early 1990s and revived by president and CEO Jonathan Larry Baer (MBA 1985), the San Francisco Giants are baseball champions, with World Series wins in 2010 and 2012. Now Baer is poised to spread the success with a $1.6... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
More Than a Game
Above: photo by Peter Taylor Fernando Aguirre (PPL 2009) owns the Erie SeaWolves minor league baseball team, and he runs it with the same management strategies he employed during his career in consumer goods. One is a hands-on approach:... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is... View Details