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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
"A new push for college athletes to (finally) be paid will gain strength; the NBA will win the broadcasting rights lottery, securing new deals with at least two networks; and the only time A-Rod wears a Yankee uniform next year will be if... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
growth of female athletes in amateur sports, we found that sexual abuse of these young, female athletes by male coaches was quite widespread. It was an incredible series that changed the reporting laws in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
gaming identity would create a stronger connection between gamers and fans and introduce an element of reality into the digital world. “This would be a true virtual athlete that can get injured,” she explains. “You would have to think... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
of the school year, my teacher, Mrs. Hazelip, pulled me aside to say she’d like me to be captain of the crossing guards in the fall. I was dumbfounded. I was small for my size, in terms of both height and muscle, not one of the popular kids, and a decent student and... 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
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
earned him an athletic scholarship at Stanford. “I was never as good a runner as my dad, but I learned a lot from him,” says Johnson, 84, who moves around very well considering he recently had both knees replaced. The teachings were not... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
the veteran could start the first lesson 30 seconds after they see the offer on our site—from their couch," the manager told Hall. Soon thereafter, housewares retailer Bed Bath & Beyond and athletic clothing maker Under Armour approached... 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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
age 27, you really think you can have it all and do it all," she observes. "Twenty-five years out of business school, I have a professional life, an athletic life, a domestic life, and I adore my three kids. I do a lot of things - but not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
for- and nonprofit organizations and on athletic teams. But as most football players have learned at the expense of an angry coach snarling in their ear, in all of these varied settings, the fact that every other member of the team still... 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 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
paywall. It’s worth mentioning that when we started, some of the research indicated we’d be lucky to get to 700,000 subscribers. A lot has changed since then. Today we’re at roughly 10 million subscribers with the goal of reaching 15 million by 2027. The 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
- 25 Jun 2025
- News
Hitting A High Note
organization. He envisioned a top-tier company with the capacity to stage the opera world’s most challenging production: Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung cycle. “When a company does the ‘Ring’—just like when an athlete is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Creative Industries.” Elaborating, Owusu-Kesse says that while he doesn’t manage big-name athletes or Hollywood performers, “I work with a young staff at HCZ that is responsible for shaping the lives of at-risk children. To succeed, they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including... View Details
- 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
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
South Pole. That seems like an epic adventure, an epic mission, but the challenge with that was that I had no experience with extreme cold and I had no experience on cross country skis. So I was trying to figure out how to build my resume, essentially, as an adventure... 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
- 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