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01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

stay-at-home mom, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He went to Kansas State University on a football scholarship, but was injured during a spring practice in his sophomore year. That led him, in what seems to be his... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

chairman and CEO Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants’ board of directors, as well as with San Francisco city development official Ron Blatman, a longtime friend. When the deal with the Florida investors was announced — but, critically, before the sale had been... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Jul 2014
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Team Players

marketing team, she was introduced to Debora Lehrer (MBA 2012), then a second-year HBS student on spring break. Lehrer had spent more than four years prior to HBS with the international division at Major League Baseball and while at HBS... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2010
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Beacon of Liberty

in horrifying slow motion. A nation mourns. Families grieve. Even though it’s my movie, it always ends the same way. I feel helpless, powerless, and lost. It’s a far cry from the way I felt twelve years ago when I first moved here. Back... View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

05 Jul 2011
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The Business of Champions

Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Navigating Success in Volatile Times

Williams, vice president, health, environment, and safety, ChevronTexaco; and HBS professors David Thomas and James Cash. A dynamic discussion about the future of leadership in the African-American community featured Vernon Jordan, senior managing director at Lazard... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance

28 Sep 2015
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Rockin’ for a Cause

lamé jacket, and I was wearing a blond wig and singing ‘Born to be Wild.’” Scheel would be the last person to downplay the enjoyment he gets from his Wildcats role, but as a parent, former Little League commissioner, and soccer coach, he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

until seventh grade, basketball until eighth grade, football until ninth. Then I wrestled and threw the shot put and discus through high school. The faster the ball moved — or the smaller it got — the sooner my career in that sport was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

League graduate school and then working internationally in a senior leadership role.” But as Jefferson lay in a bed at Tripler Medical Center in Hawaii, where he was flown for emergency surgery, those possibilities seemed very far away.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

Limbaugh," Scher laughs. Through various Web sites, the company also helps coordinate volunteers with hundreds of nonprofit groups. Moreover, the Working Assets phone bill (which, Scher proudly points out, is printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper)... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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