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- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. But something was missing in his life, so... 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 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my team and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
teacher. Of course, that was a path for me where I really found who I was at my core. And I want to share that with others and allow them to discover who they are. And then, of course, the eating disorder recovery coaching practice has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
all-consuming. He makes time for family and outside pursuits. As his three children grew, he coached his daughters’ soccer teams and attended his son’s recitals. And he is deeply committed to a number of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
children without disintegrating. It makes for a wild and fun ride.” —Craig Leon (MBA 1991), Asia research director, Institutional Investor and documentary filmmaker, Future History Films “I personally embrace a work-life integration mentality, and as a leader I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
everyone else," she said. Material goods are all well and good, she continued, but the value of "stuff" doesn't last. "What happens to it all?" she asked. "The real wealth is family. The true currency is love and friendship." Later that afternoon, View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
managing a smooth launch of Kettle Cuisine's retail product, and cultivating brand identity are his immediate priorities. While Shafir no longer goes to the fish pier every morning, he is usually at work by seven and rarely makes it home for dinner. Still, he jealously... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me,... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
to, take sales calls if necessary, and wear any hat required to help Yahoo realize its mobile ambitions.” What drew you to team management, turnarounds, and technology? What commonalities, if any, does each area share? “I like View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
experiences before they need them plays out in many fields other than business. The coach of one of my favorite basketball teams while I was growing up was always driven to win and to win big. As one of his... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
conceived plans for the Fort Sheridan army base in 1889, he meticulously merged military needs with the land’s rolling terrain and ecologically sensitive bluffs and ravines while making breathtaking views of Lake Michigan a priority. A View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
basketball-based fitness clinics at more than 225 schools, training coaches and getting more than 140,000 students on the court. Africa First office opened: 2010 (Johannesburg) As evidenced by the six African players on NBA rosters, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
exposure to the extent possible by leveraging existing assets...and then go for it. In other words, much of the process — recognizing opportunity and marshaling ways to respond to it — could be taught to anyone. “Practicing with a coach... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
work. I hadn’t thought about that. And I saw this in a pretty vivid way, actually first at the Seattle Seahawks, the football team in Seattle, with Coach Pete Carroll talking about it and trying to get... View Details