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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 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
who organizes the subgroup's activities, be it a Kane County Cougars minor league baseball game or a Chicago Shakespeare Theatre performance. Baskin and Mott liken the SIGs to “wetting a fingertip to see which way the wind is blowing” —... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
by Dan Morrell Perhaps the biggest free agent target in major league baseball this off-season was 25-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher in the Japanese professional league with a devastating split-finger fastball who made international... 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 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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
number of restaurants, bakeries, and cafés to over four thousand. Baseball great Hank Aaron, SVP of the Atlanta Braves, presented the award during the club’s Community Leadership Dinner on April 24 at the Biltmore in Atlanta. Aaron also... 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
fascinating, high-caliber group of people,” he says. “I never could have arranged a trip like that on my own.” Murray, who played Division I baseball at UNM, is grateful for the fellowship support he has received. “I was expecting to... View Details
- 26 Jun 2008
- News
The First HBS Class Notes
Harvard Clubs. Mr. Hite, the subject of the first class note, is third from the left. The same issue has lively photos of an impromptu baseball game during an HBS Alumni Association outing in Swampscott, Massachusetts. "Showing 'em how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
scandal, Lasker pushed for the creation of a baseball commissioner. He was also an influential philanthropist behind the success of Planned Parenthood and the American Cancer Society. The Lasker that pops from these pages is driven,... View Details
- Profile
Emmanuel Mensah
FIELD 3, he and his colleagues are exploring the business potential of customizable baseball caps with interchangeable Velcro-backed messages. Recently, in his entrepreneurship class, the professor startled the section with a question... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
customers. The third largest e-commerce marketplace in the world, behind Amazon.com and eBay, Rakuten businesses also include financial services, e-books, travel, and a professional baseball team. As Mikitani details in his recent book,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
didn't have a gun, either, but said he'd ask around. He tried several coaches and the operator of a baseball camp, but these leads came up dry. Then, out of the blue, he got a call from someone else looking for a favor, a coach involved... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working out of corporate headquarters. "It's a European style of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Personality? Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Million-dollar endorsement deals were made and broken by how baseball players on the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies performed in the 2007 World Series. HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
type of investment? A: Yes, it may be true that Boston (or any other city) benefits by keeping its football team or baseball team. But, another city without a team also would benefit from taking away Boston's team. And, as a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
common. Case in point: In March 2019, doctors told Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corey Knebel that it was up to him whether to end his baseball season early to get a partially torn ligament in his elbow repaired. Doctors likely would have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding