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- 16 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Unexpected Moments at HBS
simplicity of our upbringing; stories of working summers on a farm and crowded high school basketball gymnasiums. · Sitting next to a young man who worked in manufacturing operations in China, while we listened to General David...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
business, he just didn't know when or how. "Dad was good about exposing me to business-never pressuring me into it but always making it seem attractive and interesting," he recalls. After becoming a star basketball player at Yale as an...
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Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
intramural basketball and poker sessions with classmates - where, incidentally, the unstoppable entrepreneur is promoting another venture: selling cigars. For Bo Kemp, the business ideas just keep coming.
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Rachel Silverstein
would be a total Hail Mary, but I made it!" The program has been more than welcoming to both Silversteins. "By eagerly participating in our intramural sports, particularly basketball and flag football, Jason's made a lot of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
several corporate boards and worked as a consultant to dozens of organizations over the years. This year, Merchant, the father of two school-age daughters, is on sabbatical and developing a new line of inquiry focused on corporate governance. In his spare time, he...
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Videos - Advancing Racial Equity
Resources Videos Managing Diversity Speaker Series Professor Jim Cash: Basketball then and nowProfessor Jim Cash: Basketball then and now 16 Oct 2020 Professor Cash talks about the differences in society’s...
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- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
It’s one thing to look at the entertainment business from an executive’s point of view. It’s quite another to see it through the eyes of a professional basketball player, supermodel, or actress. That mix of perspectives is exactly what...
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- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
sense, but sometimes you have to shock other parties to get their attention. Donald Dell tells about how in the 1970s he tried to dissuade high school basketball star Moses Malone from signing a multimillion-dollar contract to play in the...
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Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With...
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
the FCFL will look to expand the concept to other sports. Baseball and cricket are naturals, with organic stoppages that allow fans to call pitches and set strategies. Free-flowing sports like soccer and basketball would be harder to...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base. King [LeBron] James: “I don’t think we’ve seen a basketball player of his size and agility. He’s getting up there,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
for partnership between the faculty, staff, and students." Even as an undergraduate at Harvard, team leadership came naturally to Mitchell. He was a two-time captain of the varsity basketball team, was voted the team's most valuable...
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Judith A. Ross
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
successful collegiate athletic program into a hot ticket for admission. Georgetown University applications multiplied 45 percent between 1983 and 1986 following a surge of basketball success. Northwestern University applications advanced...
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
assistant to Geoffrey Canada, CEO of Harlem Children's Zone (HCF). "They take a holistic approach to services, from cradle to college," Kwame says. "With the Zone, I did a wide range of things from consulting on education policy reform with Mayor...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
life. And I've been happy with all of them, so far. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Local Hero A lifetime basketball fan, Herb Kohl worked to get the Bucks to Milwaukee in 1969. Not wanting to see the NBA franchise leave his hometown when...
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Susan Young
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51714 Harvard Business School Case 517-035 Dwyane Wade In July 2016, while on his annual China tour to help promote the sportswear brand Li-Ning, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade and his...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Daniel Schachne
Like many people, Daniel Schachne grew up loving sports. He loved to participate—playing baseball, soccer, and—his favorite—basketball. But by middle school, Daniel realized that he was never going to play in the National Basketball...
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- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
spent six years living in New York and Switzerland and that I built my career in public accounting and finance. Harvard—and the Ivy League for that matter—always felt like a place for other people. I’ve been through transitions before. I went from playing 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...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
traditional models of advertising, including video ads. Brown discussed his experience with Twitter Amplify, which lets broadcasters instantly replay video content on Twitter—sandwiched between brief clips from advertising sponsors. For instance, if a View Details