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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career by Rick Walleigh (MBA 1974) and Wendy Walleigh (Wheatmark) Like many baby boomers reaching retirement, the Walleighs were too healthy, motivated, and interested in giving back to play golf for the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
benefit a wide variety of businesses, however, Sviokla offered a word of caution. "If you dive into the marketspace," he told the OPM graduates, "you have to expect that things are going to move very quickly." Golf and tennis tournaments,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
includes Time Inc.'s high-circulation weeklies-Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly-along with other well-known publications such as Fortune, Golf Magazine, and Southern Living. Moore began her career as a financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
Downtime: “The mountain biking in Park City, Utah, is phenomenal. I also love to golf and play tennis. Doing any of those makes me happy.” In the zone: “A common mental prep technique I’ve used is repeating three words over and over, to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
revolutionized the way Americans drink coffee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf and skiing, and names a Seattle Starbucks location in his Capitol Hill neighborhood as his favorite store. Customers might even enjoy a double-tall-nonfat... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
crazy,” “the best family business has one member,” “weekends are for working, not playing golf or coaching,” “never pay your vendors on time,” “wear your control freak badge with pride,” and “quit denial: if your business is failing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
a joint venture five years ago in Xinjiang province. Yang and her colleagues also turn their attention to myriad other details-from making sure the fabric in the collar of a golf shirt still looks crisp on the eighteenth green to creating... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Cherokee—is the first woman. It's an epic history that has its continuing point at this moment in late July, in an unassuming volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
MacGregor golf clubs.” The big H: “I had a hard time finding my footing at Harvard but did develop a relationship with Howard Raiffa, who coauthored Games and Decisions. It introduced an analytical approach to multi-person decision... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
driving us around in golf carts to the woman making our faces camera-ready in the makeup trailer, you could tell that everyone was so excited to be there. The other entrepreneurs were incredibly fun as well, and not the typical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
pretty much descent from the summit. Roll us off into retirement, on to the golf course, record our remaining exploits in the oldest segment of Class Notes, and pass out the canes and walkers. OK, maybe this is just baby-boomer rant and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
offer an attractive retail environment to move a company’s products — a clean, well-organized store where a brand’s cachet isn’t damaged. One closeout we bought were sleeves of three Top-Flite golf balls. They’re the same high quality as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
worked for the company for some twenty years as one of its top executives. As a youth, Giraud visited a number of Club Med villages and later was himself a GO for two summers, teaching golf and tennis at villages in France and Mexico. "I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
that offers a $24 million prize pool for one tournament, bracketed levels of competition, and tournaments that yield almost $17 million in sponsorship revenue? These numbers aren’t referring to golf or tennis, but eSports. ESports... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inherent contradictions among its various units. Similarly, consider the Wilson Company's involvement in meatpacking, sporting goods, and pharmaceuticals. That mélange earned the company the nickname 'Meatball, Golf Ball, and Goof Ball.'... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
of golf at nearby Pebble Beach. That unexpected outing speaks volumes about the state of venture capital in the midst of the worst “correction” in the industry’s nearly sixty-year history. “VCs venture capitalists didn’t have anything... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
five grandchildren. A celebration of Uyterhoeven’s life will be held in Vero Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 10:30 a.m., in the John’s Island Golf Club Ballroom and at Harvard Business School on Saturday, May 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the Spangler... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
not what Starbucks' brand is all about. It had to be the right fit. He helped us figure that out." Over their four-plus years of working together, Beeninga kept a notebook of Lopez's more memorable comments. For a Christmas gift one year, he personalized a set of View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details