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Evgeny Koudryavtsev
believe will be valuable in my future career." Life on campus In addition to his enthusiasm for the Soccer Club (Evgeny plays forward for the HBS team) and the China IXP "that helped me understand the political and social...
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- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
of her then- five-year-old son's soccer team. As Applegate related with a fond smile, "You put the ball on the field and they all jumped on it. They fought their teammates; they fought each other. They looked like a rugby scrum and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2015
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Rockin’ for a Cause
lamé jacket, and I was wearing a blond wig and singing ‘Born to be Wild.’” Scheel would be the last person to downplay the enjoyment he gets from his Wildcats role, but as a parent, former Little League commissioner, and soccer coach, he...
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Fola Folowosele
football industry in Africa. The conference gave me a platform to share my interest in using the business of sports to positively impact communities and it was through this interaction that I got tapped to help PUMA develop an Africa focused grassroots View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
way to Canada by boat and then to Portland, Oregon, by Greyhound bus. He thrived socially, joining the soccer team and, in 1966, becoming the first non-American to be elected president of Oregon State's 14,000 student body. Realizing that...
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- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
after she finishes work. His cell phone beeps: It's a message from the Soda X portal. The Chicago Fire soccer team is playing tonight, and the Guess? store that Tommy is approaching is offering him half-price tickets for the game if he...
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by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes
soccer balls stitched by twelve-year-old Pakistani workers. Levi Strauss, Macy's, Liz Claiborne, and Eddie Bauer all removed their operations from Burma amid frequent citations of human rights violations on the part of Burma's repressive...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
British crowd cheers at either rugby or soccer games. It was a call and response. One side chanted "Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy!" (It might have been "Oggy Oggy Oggy!"), and then the other chanted "I! I! I!." Then "Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy!" "I! I! I!" "Ozzy!"...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader
professional and private lives. And he served as an example. “One of the things I’m proudest of is that I coached youth soccer for thirteen years,” says George, who recalls that he often left meetings at 5:00 or 5:30 p.m. to be on time to...
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- 27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success
like the ones her former teammates had experienced, she needed to understand the problems. In 2016, she quit her accounting job and moved to Bolivia to work as a teacher for A Ganar, a youth-workforce-development program that uses soccer...
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April White
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
one,” says Iansiti, who describes himself as more of a soccer person. “The more I got into it, the more I read about it, it became more and more interesting and more and more fascinating, so it kind of drew me in.” Iansiti read the Wells...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
example, preferred blue flecks in their detergents—blue being the color of the favorite Italian soccer team, Arnold noted with a grin. On the other hand, residents of the Netherlands, considering themselves environmentally friendly,...
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- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female performance on math tests, better performance of women’s FIFA...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
mainstream in the early 2000s. Leagues were organized by a central authority, and competitions were televised. Long before the rest of the world discovered the 21st-century sport, South Korean video gamers were held in the same regard as View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
making his job easier, he said. Dorrance led seminars on leadership for his women soccer players, ran leadership self-assessments and team ratings, and then let teams choose their own captains. Leaders find the best people they can,...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 May 2016
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What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
advertisers. Nor are they the World Cup—the quadrennial single-sport, multi-week championship of professional soccer that commands vast attention in much of the world, but limited interest in the United States. Rather, the Olympics both...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
rivalries. "Argentines and Brazilians don't get along that well," he said, "especially when soccer is the issue. So we decided not to market our beer as a Brazilian beer but as a beer for the youth—a beer connected to...
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by Julie Jette
- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source...
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Constantine von Hoffman