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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
email continually, like, “Hey, my buddy would like to try writing comics.” It’s like saying you played baseball as a kid, so you want to try out for the Mets or the Yankees. It’s very difficult and highly competitive. And you do not get... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
marketing team, she was introduced to Debora Lehrer (MBA 2012), then a second-year HBS student on spring break. Lehrer had spent more than four years prior to HBS with the international division at Major League Baseball and while at HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
masks to “Mr. Wonderful” talking picture frames. Left-handed baseball gloves, bare-root rosebushes, a leather holster for your iPhone once we had such a good deal on jackets that a fight broke out over the last one. Of course, we’ve also... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
far. Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz took a selfie with President Obama, which seemed playful at first until it was later revealed that he had done so on behalf of Samsung cameras. Some fans are not amused when the "soft edge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
York Yankees. That’s where I started, and then reality closed in. Leadership roles of one sort or another were always fun for me, whether it was on the Little League baseball team or guiding a field trip. I enjoy people, and I enjoy... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
relationship between the Jimmy Fund and the Perini Corporation. Initiated in 1948 by Louis Perini, second-generation CEO of a family-owned, Boston-based construction company, and Sidney Farber, M.D., a pioneer in cancer treatment, this collaboration came to include the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- Profile
Arthur Rock
accolade, but in Rock’s case, it is entirely fitting. A 1984 Time magazine cover story was titled “Arthur Rock: The Best Long-Ball Hitter Around.” Writer (and later successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist) Michael Moritz wrote he profile of Rock, a lifelong View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
be helpful. Ted Williams, the last baseball player to hit .400, was a student of his art. He emphasized that hitting is a pitch-by-pitch discipline: "My first rule of hitting was to get a good ball to hit. I learned down to... View Details
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
without a lost time accident.” Another image documenting employees’ rights to file complaints captured management and union representatives together at a grievance committee meeting. Pictures of baseball games and other leisure activities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of all time” demonstrated an early penchant for competition. A peripatetic Army brat, Porter was an all-state football and baseball player in New Jersey before majoring in aerospace engineering at Princeton (where he finished first in his... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about this with our boys. Our children don't think this is abnormal. There are many, many, baseball... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
never watch a baseball game the same way! My favorite cases were in Professor Ryan Buell's Managing Service Operations class, and informed my work improving government service delivery during the pandemic." Reggie: "My favorite class was... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
being willing to learn from different people, sometimes outside of the manager’s field. Again, we turn to Belichick, who has been known to consult with other football coaches, including the legendary Jimmy Johnson and decorated college coach Urban Meyer. Belichick has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
bobblehead dolls, baseball caps, and refrigerator magnets. A life-size cardboard cutout of the President grins at diners chowing down on burgers and barbecue at the local café. Bright blue signs scattered around town proclaim: BUSH... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
caught the attention of former major leaguer Gabby Street, who gave her a chance at a summer baseball school. With Coach Street’s training—and the cleats he gifted her—Toni managed to earn a spot in the minor leagues. Though teams were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
alumni who throw pots, drink wine, tell jokes, and collect baseball cards—for fun. (And, yes, some have turned their passions into their professions.) How to: Jump Out of an Airplane Our instructor: Alejandro Montagna (MBA 1996), skydiver... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Sell Those Sports Cards: How I Auctioned Cards, Bats, Autographs and More By John Schwarz (MBA 1963) Independently Published As the sports memorabilia industry continues to make headlines with multi-million dollar auction results, you might wonder what those View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
good student, a good baseball player, and his story's probably a lot like so many of these other tragedies you hear about loss during war. His life was waiting to be lived, in a sense. Relatively young man, not yet 30 at the time, his... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Ilitch family, the founders of Little Caesars pizza chain, owns the Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers baseball team. The Tigers stadium is in Ilitch country, more commonly known as Foxtown, and the new Red Wings arena is planned for the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
of the river and recently endowed the College's baseball program with a gift of $2.5 million. "There are many people along the way -- starting with your parents -- who help you to get to a position where you can make a difference,' he... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg