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- 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 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
number of restaurants, bakeries, and cafés to over four thousand. Baseball great Hank Aaron, SVP of the Atlanta Braves, presented the award during the club’s Community Leadership Dinner on April 24 at the Biltmore in Atlanta. Aaron also... 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 2014
- News
Chances Are
researchers found, that a couple who used condoms as a contraceptive would become pregnant. Shapiro's friend called later that day to report that her daughter had confronted her boyfriend with that stat and another she saw that day: 1 in 144—the odds of a major league... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
learning how to assess a player’s potential. DeWitt Jr. graduated from Yale University and HBS, but he had enrolled in Baseball U. many years earlier. At age six, as a batboy for the St. Louis Browns, he met Babe Ruth; when he was nine,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
customers. The third largest e-commerce marketplace in the world, behind Amazon.com and eBay, Rakuten businesses also include financial services, e-books, travel, and a professional baseball team. As Mikitani details in his recent book,... 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and recently acquired eReader Kobo,... 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 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
masks to “Mr. Wonderful” talking picture frames. Left-handed baseball gloves, bare-root rosebushes, a leather holster for your iPhone once we had such a good deal on jackets that a fight broke out over the last one. Of course, we’ve also... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working out of corporate headquarters. "It's a European style of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
fascinating, high-caliber group of people,” he says. “I never could have arranged a trip like that on my own.” Murray, who played Division I baseball at UNM, is grateful for the fellowship support he has received. “I was expecting to... 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
listening and using just three words: tell me more. Listen, ask questions, and you might learn how a regular person could come to feel the way they do. Listen to a person who has a large gun collection and learn that it’s the same to them as someone else’s precious... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs Gibbons, a tall, affable Indiana... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about this with our boys. Our children don't think this is abnormal. There are many, many, baseball... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
scandal, Lasker pushed for the creation of a baseball commissioner. He was also an influential philanthropist behind the success of Planned Parenthood and the American Cancer Society. The Lasker that pops from these pages is driven,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
caught the attention of former major leaguer Gabby Street, who gave her a chance at a summer baseball school. With Coach Street’s training—and the cleats he gifted her—Toni managed to earn a spot in the minor leagues. Though teams were... View Details