Golf - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

revolutionized the way Americans drink coffee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf and skiing, and names a Seattle Starbucks location in his Capitol Hill neighborhood as his favorite store. Customers might even enjoy a double-tall-nonfat... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

choices a consumer would need to make. Procter & Gamble, in recent years, has sought to reduce its offerings in many categories. And Titleist, in the past five years, has gone from an extremely large assortment of golf balls to only... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

a joint venture five years ago in Xinjiang province. Yang and her colleagues also turn their attention to myriad other details-from making sure the fabric in the collar of a golf shirt still looks crisp on the eighteenth green to creating... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Rowing Upstream

endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping oar strokes synchronized has been compared to “eight people trying to do the perfect golf... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

MacGregor golf clubs.” The big H: “I had a hard time finding my footing at Harvard but did develop a relationship with Howard Raiffa, who coauthored Games and Decisions. It introduced an analytical approach to multi-person decision... View Details

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Meet the Team | Information Technology

web development, UI design, and product innovation. When not at his workstation, Ivan enjoys (somewhat) competitive golfing with a league west of Boston and playing blues piano. Matthew Preble Multimedia Producer Matt began his career at... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

crazy,” “the best family business has one member,” “weekends are for working, not playing golf or coaching,” “never pay your vendors on time,” “wear your control freak badge with pride,” and “quit denial: if your business is failing... View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Cherokee—is the first woman. It's an epic history that has its continuing point at this moment in late July, in an unassuming volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living... View Details

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

Kaufman says. "A board sees the CEO at highly structured—and possibly well-rehearsed—board meetings, at a few dinners and perhaps at an annual golf outing. That doesn't tell the board whether the CEO is a listener or a lecturer, an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2010
News

Eric Schiffer

offer an attractive retail environment to move a company’s products — a clean, well-organized store where a brand’s cachet isn’t damaged. One closeout we bought were sleeves of three Top-Flite golf balls. They’re the same high quality as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Pennsylvania, Sarah Sommer abruptly experienced profound hearing loss. But with a hearing aid and intensive therapy, she went on to become an Academic All-American in golf at Princeton and winner of the Spirit of Princeton Award for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

job, so it was like, "What am I going to tell these folks?" It told me a lot about the pressures of an organization, and the discontinuity between making budget and not making it.— W. Earl Sasser We got into the golf cart. We... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

five grandchildren. A celebration of Uyterhoeven’s life will be held in Vero Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 10:30 a.m., in the John’s Island Golf Club Ballroom and at Harvard Business School on Saturday, May 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the Spangler... View Details

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/10/the-cure-for-horrible-bosses/ar/1 Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities Authors:Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

worked for the company for some twenty years as one of its top executives. As a youth, Giraud visited a number of Club Med villages and later was himself a GO for two summers, teaching golf and tennis at villages in France and Mexico. "I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

United Kingdom. So stay tuned. Retirement as we know it is an evolving concept. For one person it may be the classic vision of a condo on a golf course in Florida. For another, a sojourn in Africa with the Peace Corps. Now it seems that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

pretty much descent from the summit. Roll us off into retirement, on to the golf course, record our remaining exploits in the oldest segment of Class Notes, and pass out the canes and walkers. OK, maybe this is just baby-boomer rant and... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

called his wife, Breeda, to confirm that they were hosting a dinner party that weekend for some friends from Ireland who were in town for a golf tournament Dubai Duty Free was supporting. Purchase this... View Details