sports team management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
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Coach for Life

Showcase" series that aims to draw attention to recently published cases. Notes from Coach Hurley's playbook: High Standards Players must sign a 20-item contract agreeing to strict academic, lifestyle, and team standards. During Hurley's... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Oct 2024
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A Fearless Fighter Honored

On September 5, 2024, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) grew up outside of London, studying modern dance and competing on her high school’s sports teams. After college, while teaching physical... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Designing Change

most of the talking. Slowly, he gets the buy-in he’s been looking for as affiliates see the new logo’s influence on clients. At the same time, Boyd and his senior management team invigorate a jaded corporate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2011
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Noted & Quoted

“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages. (American Public Media’s... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot

in a new job, Waldroop urges managers to: Take notes on key colleagues. Especially for the first few weeks, jot down notes on your boss, team members, and direct reports at the end of each day. “Write down... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday

on that day,” Bernard clarifies. For those employees whose work often requires a Friday presence, as in customer care teams, they work with their managers to take another day of their choosing. As the teams... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out of my control. So it's how do you set a vision? How do you hire... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Jun 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)

When I graduated from Stanford, I had the opportunity to travel with an elite amateur team doing bike races, or I could go join a structural design firm in Pittsburgh. That was my choice. I chose to race bikes. I love the sport. I love... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark

01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
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Net Gains

Having established a strong market in the world's most populous country, the NBA is making a hard push for number two. "We've really been focused on teaching the game of basketball in India," says Tatum. "The sport is not necessarily... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds

succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped... View Details