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Richard R. Deupree
sponsoring the first radio soap opera - “The Puddle Family” in 1932. In 1939, just five months after the introduction of television in the U.S., Procter & Gamble aired its first TV commercial (for Ivory soap) during the first televised major league View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Olivia Zhao
Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Olivia Zhao (she/her) grew up a rabid baseball fan, following her beloved Kansas City Royals and still to this day catching ball games at Fenway Park in Boston. Even as a young girl, she was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
learning how to assess a player’s potential. DeWitt Jr. graduated from Yale University and HBS, but he had enrolled in Baseball U. many years earlier. At age six, as a batboy for the St. Louis Browns, he met Babe Ruth; when he was nine,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Stacy Sonnenberg
ones, cook extravagant meals, and see plays and baseball game. I want to be brave enough to face failure with a shrug of the shoulder and a desire to try again. I want to be brave enough to believe in myself. View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
“The pressure for more safety via better equipment is a continuing phenomenon: at one time ice hockey goalies didn’t wear masks, and baseball and hockey players didn’t wear helmets. Although injuries are widely accepted as part of sports,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and recently acquired eReader Kobo,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
counterintuitive strategy in a stat-driven era, but one that has paid great dividends. “The desire to do something special, to do something great, is a passion,” Middleton told the Times shortly after signing Harper. “It’s not grounded in business logic, it’s not... View Details
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
was the worst kid on the team because he’d never played baseball. He didn’t have a father to throw a baseball with. So, after practice he was crying, because he was aware that he was the worst person on the team. They stuck him into... View Details
- Career Coach
Tim Kluska
recruiting process. Tim can provide career path clarification, resume refinement, helpful context on all finance-adjacent industries, and the step-by-step inside baseball on IB networking. In addition, Tim can conduct mock IB interviews... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
bridge the divide between the organic feel of a live game with the instant pleasures of technology to create something unique? That’s where augmented reality comes into the picture. Say you’re watching the Erie SeaWolves, one of the first minor league View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Velo-Arias
boundless. When I wanted to play Danny Zuko in our third-grade rendition of Grease, she used two bottles of hair spray to help me look the part. When I wanted to become a baseball star, she used a flashlight so my dad and I could play... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
Rescued in the early 1990s and revived by president and CEO Jonathan Larry Baer (MBA 1985), the San Francisco Giants are baseball champions, with World Series wins in 2010 and 2012. Now Baer is poised to spread the success with a $1.6... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
elected Dallas Club President Kenneth P. Winslow (MBA '76) cites the special activities and informal networking that mark his club's events. He recalls in particular a July 28, 1994, outing at a Texas Rangers baseball game, where pitcher... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean