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- 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 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) is delighted with the event's success on many levels. "As we break new ground as an organization," he notes, "we appreciate the tremendous support we've received from individuals and corporate sponsors such as The Gap, Kraft Foods, Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
venues, such as the House of Lords, National Theatre, Tower Bridge, London Zoo, and Somerset House, for its annual summer and Christmas parties. An annual ball, golf days, and Sunday visits to historic buildings bring members together to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” “I don’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 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 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
recipient of $25,000 for TrophoMax, a producer of patented seed and leaf inoculants. Jonathan Assayag (MBA 2010) of the HBS Club of Brazil was a semifinalist for Lema21, an online retail channel for quality eyewear. An online poll named Swing by Swing 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 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
Museum, and a gala dinner at the Royal Albert Hall featuring a command performance of Romeo & Juliet by the English National Ballet. Come early for optional trips to France or Ireland, or stay afterward for golf in Scotland or tennis at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 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
- 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 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
an informal roundtable discussion. In addition, plans are currently under way for the organization's main event: the Case Study Weekend. This conference, held every other year at a golf resort in the Irish countryside, brings together... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have out here, a nice set of MacGregor View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Patton, who was definitely not an A student in his high school class in Normandy, Mo., a level of accomplishment he attributed to his focus on the golf team rather than schoolwork, would have loved such an opportunity. Within a year,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 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