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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
It's early on a June morning at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, the day before the U.S. Open golf tournament. Only practice rounds will be played today, but already groups of excited spectators are trooping up the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
his approach to business My First Job Alumni share stories, strategies, and lessons learned from their first jobs—from golf club caddy to lobster shack waitress. The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast McDonald’s SVP Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Activate Program Peter Gumulia Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
to do what must be done for the common good, including those on the front lines.” Yamato donates to rebuilding devastated areas Makoto Kigawa, CEO of Yamato—a home delivery service of everything from fresh food to skis and golf clubs—sent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
engage in experiences that allow them to see more dimensions of their personalities. For example, go on a road trip or partake in an activity that neither of you have done before. See how each of you make decisions together like where to eat lunch or which trail to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national golf team when he was only... View Details
- Portrait Project
Auden Laurence
sister. The next three years passed pleasantly, filled with Bob books and park days together. But our parents’ divorce rocked our safe, sweet world. My mom moved us south to be near family. Barely three, my sister was fragile, uncertain where home was for her. Despite... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
people trying to do the perfect golf swing at the same time, all together, 200 times in a row." Like most of his peers, Coach P used a variety of quantifiable metrics for each rower to determine who would sit in the varsity boat.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
of the many actions a CEO could take during the course of a day—attending meetings, reviewing a marketing campaign, schmoozing clients on the golf course. So Sadun and her colleagues instead divided up activities with a much simpler... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
Woods's decision to change his golf swing, DeLong's daughter Sara's decision to stay in medical school while she fought lymphoma, and managers who struggled alongside him throughout his career. Despite his concerns about opening up,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
take 1955 (with the IBM 701) as the start date and use eighty years as a technology cycle, 2035 may not be far off the mark for playing much of this out. Even then, the special recombinant nature of this technology makes us uncomfortable calling an end date. We wish... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
The old boys’ club is alive and well in the workforce, as male employees regularly schmooze with their male bosses during coffee breaks, after-work drinks, and golf outings. All this socializing gives men a huge career advantage over... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
bloated bureaucracy and constipated decision-making. Clearly dysfunctional activities,even in fun, such as a sales vs. marketing golf tournament at the national sales meeting, are to be discouraged.— Benson Shapiro Information technology... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
dentists who got lucky on the stock market.” The development plan calls for a golf course with villas, a luxury boutique hotel, farms, a nature preserve and science research center, and a beach village with a nearby artists’ colony. Curry... View Details
- Career Coach
Shahaan (Haan) Razak
student in education, medicine, and business). He is also confident in discussing life transitions and family planning as he has navigated his non-traditional path as a husband and father of three. If you also enjoy hearing all about the Miami Heat or have tips on... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
augmented-reality instructions southwestern us HBS Association of Southern California Brandon Molina, MBA 2010 CEO Swing by Swing Golf technology for the greens 2012 HBS Alumni New Venture Contest legal services sponsor: Cooley, LLP... View Details