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- 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
- 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
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Jun 2025
- News
Hitting A High Note
As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo and video credit: Melissa Golden Tomer Zvulun video Tomer Zvulun discusses the Atlanta Opera's contributions to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital: family offices, “super angels”... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 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 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
the age of 14. Now an incoming freshman at Dartmouth College, she saw no reason to choose between academics and competing in the sport she loved. At the time, however, few supports were in place to help athletes navigate the dual... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The... View Details
- 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 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
which athletes won and lost in Turin, but what about the companies and individuals looking for business gold? Professor Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser looks at the results and the possibilities ahead for the Summer Games in China. New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Some Racquet
bachelor," the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger (July 12, 2001) observed, "For 24 years, Korff has worked to shrink the widening chasm between sports fans and their heroes by turning his [tennis] event into a week-long food and music festival." Explained Korff, "If you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Partners’ Club Strives to Broaden Appeal
years, it has hosted guest speakers and interest groups, organized athletic activities and outings, and provided job information. Recently, however, some partners have expressed dissatisfaction with the club. A poll conducted in April... View Details
- 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
- 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