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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
effective and efficient in the company’s core business. The focus is improvement, not exponential growth. Improvement is always possible. Yes, it may be small, but even extremely small improvements can be worthwhile. Look at the example of View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Murphy
"I'm going to be an Olympic diver", I confidently declared as a knock-kneed, chubby 10 year-old. "Sure Mike - go for it", responded my supportive but somewhat sceptical family. "Off to the View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
Gold Mettle Three years ago, the 2002 Winter Olympics looked like a downhill skier who had taken a really bad fall, tumbling out of control, in danger of serious injury, and with an uncertain future at best. Members of the International... 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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
Do you believe in miracles? Some say that's what it will take for the Olympic movement to recover from the scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Or maybe all that's needed, as the Salt Lake... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
HATCHETT: Calm amid market turmoil. Perhaps it’s fitting that in this Olympic year, Morgan Stanley’s Kimberley Hatchett (MBA ’91) was named one of the “Top 100 Women Financial Advisers” by Barron’s (June 9, 2008). Of that group, Hatchett... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
SHOW TIME SPOTLIGHT In March, the HBS community welcomed Icarus coproducer David Fialkow to the Chao Center for a conversation with Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Lecturer Henry McGee on the 2018 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature and the View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Profile
Matthew Wyble
forces you to constantly confront your own shortcomings.” Despite the obstacles, Matt committed to the event and even accepted a detour in his career to dedicate a year of training for the Olympic trials. “My thinking: I lived a safe... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson. Developing Novel Drugs This paper by Joshua Krieger and colleagues contributes to our understanding of how financing constraints affect the direction of innovation in drug development. After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
later revealed to be 3 million viewers in just one year. Ruggiero, four-time women’s hockey Olympian and gold medalist, was on the board of the US Olympic Committee and a member of the International Olympic... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jeff Chochinov
promote the Olympic sport of curling. I also plan to write a comedic screenplay about my hometown of Winnipeg and open a photography gallery to display my work when it becomes good enough. Above all else, my most important goal in life is... View Details
- Portrait Project
Douglas Schillinger
In my mind's eye, I was Ernest Shackelton. I was Jim Lovell. I was the 'Last of the Mohicans'. I was bending down to receive my Olympic Medal. I knew what I wanted for my life: the epic, the extraordinary, and the exceptional. I wanted to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Trouble behind Livedoor When Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie was arrested early this year, it shook Japan’s economic underpinnings. Assistant Professor Robin Greenwood discusses what went wrong with one of that country’s most-watched Internet companies. Winners and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
eyesight worsened from the faint beams of flashlight hitting my textbooks as I studied at night. When Nigeria finally won Olympic Gold, I watched the television flicker to darkness due to power failure — I had missed a monumental moment... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
advisors that includes former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and Olympic hockey gold medalist Hilary Knight. The article also tracked the rise in sports startups in the Boston area more generally, highlighting both Will... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Row On
Hamlin (MBA 1978), who died in May of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 74. Hamlin, who represented the United States in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and at the World Rowing Championships in 1969 and 1970, continued to compete... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
evolves, CFJ has to decide how to respond. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710018-PDF-ENG The London 2012 Olympic Games Harvard Business School Case 510-039 It's 2009 and Paul Williamson, Head of Ticketing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
and reports the station and approximate time she heard a song, she receives information about the song and how to purchase the CD on which it appears. With the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics Organizing Committee sorely in need of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry