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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS), Wolfensohn landed in London during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
sense of being “an outsider in the world of privilege.” He chose banking “because it’s a profession where you are judged by what you produce rather than where you come from.” Born in Australia to middle-class Jewish parents, Wolfensohn, a member of his homeland’s 1956... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
Australian Air Force, was a fencer on the 1956 Australian Olympic team, and practiced law prior to attending HBS. After graduation and work at a Sydney merchant bank, in 1967 he accepted a position in London with J. Henry Schroder Wagg... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School's and alumni visibility in the community while providing a substantial educational experience to its members. The amount of preparation that goes into these conferences is staggering - even by HBS measures - and appropriately might be compared with this issue's... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
edge the Wizards. Tatum says that Brazil's pre–World Cup infrastructure investments have made the spread of the game a bit easier, but he's looking two years ahead for an even bigger push. "Basketball is a very established sport there," he says. "But with the 2016... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of the U.S. boycott of the 1980... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family moved to Palo Alto when Pitch was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Francisco Opera, helping it through a difficult era—flying, teaching entrepreneurship, track and field, and fishing. Johnson, a nationally ranked runner in college, regularly attends the Olympic Games. From his father, a track coach, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
first entered the Olympics competition in 1996. A frequent speaker on finance, investment, and General Patton, Stillman is president of R.J. Stillman Company, his writing and publishing operation. HBS was a memorable experience for me, in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Ultimate Frisbee with one, and I could tell by the way he played he’d be a terrific person to do a company with. The other was a woman who almost made the Canadian Olympic marathon team. People who are intense about sports often bring... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Olympic Park Legacy Company. Her education and experience complemented Blumkin's, as did her roots across the river in Mamaroneck, in New York's Westchester County. Blumkin immediately signed Lehrer as manager of communications and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
over the world. My sample includes CEOs of large companies, board members, political figures, Olympic athletes, writers, and television personalities, among others. About 10 percent are men. I understand you're also considering the issue... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
was extraordinary, just because of the upcoming Olympics and China entering WTO. The whole world was looking at China, so my venture really timed it very well, unintentionally. After the Olympics, inbound travel going to China tapered out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sport, and the comradeship generated among teammates. I actually have my own boys-in-the-boat story. Twenty years after the University of Washington team won its gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, I was the coxswain of the Yale crew that won an View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake Olympics. And he hired me, so I got to be one of the executives on the Olympic Committee. I just had a fantastic time. David Binswanger. I am section H of 1982. My first job ever was loading tapes onto... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
previous World Cup and Olympic hosts. But the country's lack of transportation alternatives—particularly a useful rail system—has also put an extraordinarily heavy burden on the airlines to move fans to disparate match sites. "I don't... View Details