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- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
will have a newfound freedom to experiment with course design. Moon compared the new approach to a rule change in sports. “A change in the rules may not sound like much, but over time it can have a major impact on how the game is played,”... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
SmartLess, with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, and No Such Thing as a Fish, from the researchers behind the BBC game show QI. Bookshelf: “Most of the books I read are to fuel curiosity and creativity. One I’d recommend is The... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
societal returns. Lassiter reminded the room that there are many levers that can be played in the game, but that the game is playing out at a rapid pace. Lehr, from National Grid, talked about finding that sweet spot when it comes to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of the U.S. boycott of the 1980... 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
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
software company and build video games together.’” The Dreamfly’s mission is a return to a starting point for Mendhro, who was raised in rural Pakistan as the daughter of the village’s first physician, who founded the area’s first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
sailboats to a former America’s Cup boat that we adapted—although no one said it could be accomplished.” A competitive sailor who has raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan takes a measured... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
through HBS, in 1939, I went on active duty for a year. That was when I, a platoon leader, first met George Smith Patton Jr. during large-scale war games in Louisiana. He was a lieutenant colonel at the time and one of the umpires who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
firms not only on money but also on leadership—who controls the firm, who is on the team—that changes the game significantly. I think that is a change we’re starting to see.” —Aileen Lee (MBA 1997), founder and managing partner, Cowboy... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
dishes to add some surprises to the evening. A white elephant gift exchange game rounded out the evening. Declaring their holiday celebration on December 12 as the “coolest of the cool,” the HBS Club of Austin gathered at the North Austin... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
holders; they’re the media. That fourth branch of government is the one that stays in Washington for life, exerting its influence on the way that town works.” Classic Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin “Game Change and its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
identify animals and birds, discuss (in Swahili) game sightings with other guides on CB radios, and wow us with details of what we are seeing (in English). They are very diplomatic when we misidentify animals or want to take just a few... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School of Management Author, Fixing the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
sculptural art, responsive technology, audio, video, and performance—all of which makes more sense when you see it. Meow Wolf is releasing an app next year that will add to the functionality of the in-person experience, with inspiration from the View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery