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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
countries won medals than ever before, befitting the record number of athletes and nations that took part. What were the problem areas? For an event of this magnitude, perfection is elusive. Transportation delays were inevitable,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see. But whether View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
constantly trying to learn and putting yourself out there in a way that does put you at risk in some way. It might be the risk of embarrassing yourself in some way. It might be the risk of some athletic endeavor that really scares you,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Police Athletic League in New York. And, over the past two years, he has served as a codirector of the HBS Partnership Sports Program with the nearby Taft Middle School. In this role, he devoted Saturdays to organizing activities, such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the cockpit of my jet, I’m so keyed up I consciously try to slow myself down as I go through all the pre-launch procedures. Waiting to be catapulted into the darkness over the Arabian Sea, I’m not thinking about my mortality. I just feel butterflies in my stomach —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
finance, along with many others (including two in progress) on the subject of General Patton. An athlete and exercise enthusiast, Stillman won six gold medals and one silver in track and swimming events in Louisiana’s 2002 Senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
spring. Its goal was to help athletes near the end of their football careers learn how to own, operate, or build their own businesses. The program, a first for pro football players, offered two three-day modules delivered a month apart.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
reunion gift committees. He contributed to the School in ways that reflected his many interests: funding for a chaired professorship, supporting physical fitness programs, donating money for athletic facilities, and helping to purchase an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top of her chosen field,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
acclaim as Harvard Female Athlete of the Year. Yet, despite all that, when the talented point guard was approached to play professionally in Europe at the end of her senior year, she recalls, “It had never occurred to me that I could play... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
impact of alumni giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT For more stories that illustrate the impact of alumni giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT WHOOP strap... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Step By Step
father had been a competitive athlete, with national records in the long jump and relay. When I started to run, he got super excited; it helped start a conversation with him around sports and athletics that we’d never had before. There’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
athletic adventurers — the majority had run marathons — spent six days trekking through a variety of landscapes, weather conditions, and challenges to reach the summit at 19,340 feet. At a slide show of the trek that climbers gave in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
player and athlete who was one of the first in his family and community to attend college, McArthur channeled his athletic drive into academics at HBS, earning an MBA in 1959 and a DBA in 1963. He then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
counselor in Evanston, Illinois, suggested I apply for a ROTC scholarship, I thought she was crazy. I was raised with the ideal of service to others, but I was a woman. I had blond hair. I lived in the suburbs. I was also a three-sport View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
House Raft Race. Harvard professor Robert Kiely says this race of jerry-rigged craft was already in place when he became master of Adams House in 1973. Lore has it that athletically challenged Adams House decided to create a “sport” in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Life becomes more process-driven and less about the ultimate result. That’s a hard lesson to learn in any aspect of life, whether it’s athletics or a career. Getting comfortable with trusting the process, and not looking for the result,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
in their pool on a gorgeous, sunny day was such a gift." "Jen is the girl next door," wrote Scott Soshnick, a reporter for Bloomberg News. "She's your sister. She's your friend, not some world-class athlete with ungodly stamina. People... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
and his first book, Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary, is available for order through various online retailers. Today, Chad speaks to corporate audiences and professional athletes to help them develop resilience in the... View Details