Marathons - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

had done was create the first professional marathon ever in the United States. After two years, we had started to look in other areas. Make a long story short, I had gotten Jordache, which was then raging hot jeans company, to sponsor the... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

of—engineers.” Louneva, who plans to head to Silicon Valley after graduation, took a computer science course at Harvard College. For others not ready to commit to a full semester, the club offers an always sold-out, two-day intensive coding View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

feel joy even while you're doing something painful, like training for a marathon or lifting weights, or whatever it is, working on a big project. And she said that 50% of our happiness is genetic, 10% is your circumstances, or in... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson

Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world yacht race. A single-handed,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

entrepreneur and thus, despite our both working equally hard with respect to family and expectations, can’t relate to my catering to 14 time zones. I presume that I would feel the same in her shoes. So it’s the little things that enable us to crank out the last 1.6... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

with extracurricular activities ranging from student government, to volunteer work with local schoolchildren, to rock music. On the occasion of the 1996 HBS Commencement, we salute these students and their stellar classmates as they begin a new chapter in their already... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

York City was senior managing director at the securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald. He was in his office in the World Trade Center's north tower on the morning of September 11. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Kates was an accomplished athlete and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

the time. I had just come off of two years in investment banking. I had always been fairly active in terms of exercise and running. In fact, I was training for a couple half marathons, which soon turned into marathon training at the time.... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

hours for every $100 donated. With the restaurant community struggling to keep their staff, Guo told WCVB that the organization is giving health care workers “what they need to power through these long 12-hour, 18-hour marathons at the... View Details

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