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Jeremy King

time," Jeremy says. Additional journeys included the Tribal Enterprise Group visit to the Mohegan Sun casino, "where we met leaders of the Mohegan tribe and operators of the casino business," and a ski trip to Steamboat, Colorado "amazingly... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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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

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

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 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

02 Nov 2021
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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

Keywords: rowing; obituary; sports; retirement; Alzheimer's Disease; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 1998
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A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

Sadly, hockey-mad Canada has few cities that can sustain an NHL team economically, so it's losing teams to U.S. cities." Commenting on the first-time-ever participation of NHL stars on national teams at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan,... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Jun 1997
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Thomas C. Høegh

and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2011
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A Man without a Pause

Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS), Wolfensohn landed in London during... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; World Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Net Gains

edge the Wizards. Tatum says that Brazil's pre–World Cup infrastructure investments have made the spread of the game a bit easier, but he's looking two years ahead for an even bigger push. "Basketball is a very established sport there," he says. "But with the 2016... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

sense of being “an outsider in the world of privilege.” He chose banking “because it’s a profession where you are judged by what you produce rather than where you come from.” Born in Australia to middle-class Jewish parents, Wolfensohn, a member of his homeland’s 1956... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of the U.S. boycott of the 1980... View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2012
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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

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Sekou Calliste

something on the news in the morning that's the subject of a case in the afternoon. We're already examining issues such as the EU's response to the Greek crisis, the coming 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The global financial crisis?... View Details

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

gang-controlled neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago as well as his career experiences in both the public and private sector. These include stints at Harvard Business School, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, the Chicago Olympics bid, and in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker

Australian Air Force, was a fencer on the 1956 Australian Olympic team, and practiced law prior to attending HBS. After graduation and work at a Sydney merchant bank, in 1967 he accepted a position in London with J. Henry Schroder Wagg... View Details

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

based on common interests or backgrounds), and we are training for the Big/Little Olympics in the spring. While talking with the first-year students in the program, we realized that some things were different from our first year (for the... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

School's and alumni visibility in the community while providing a substantial educational experience to its members. The amount of preparation that goes into these conferences is staggering - even by HBS measures - and appropriately might be compared with this issue's... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design for the 2008 Beijing Summer View Details