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When Generations Learn Together
background. When Bracken and I are with the kids at a football game, going out to dinner, or at a play, he and I will talk shop a bit. These conversations make me better and I hope I am returning the favor by providing a broader...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not rational—when considering whether to go to...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
Ferguson, the most successful manager in British football history, is preparing for the 2012-2013 season-his record-setting 26th as manager of one of the world's most decorated professional football clubs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
about the case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 706-413 Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A) What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
pages or as long as 100, was passed out earlier in the week but serious WAC work didn’t begin until Friday evening and then continued through Saturday — no Saturday football games! Typing began late Saturday afternoon and, unlike today,...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur
graduating from the University of British Columbia as a professional football player in Canada.) No wonder I loved the man and would do anything for him!” By the way, the ship’s clock and barometer are now proudly above my desk at Harvard...
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Dean
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many years. Over time, more and more...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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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...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and...
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- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007, Marc was still confined to a wheelchair, but the Miami project had developed into the world's largest spinal cord injury...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
into being. I write about in the book, my freshman year at Yale, the freshman football players. We staged a coup against the upperclassmen because the team really sucked, and the upperclassmen were just really not good at their jobs, and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
own something, can’t be an asset. If it’s not an asset, you can’t invest in it. So employees, I’m sorry, can’t be assets. You can’t invest in your employees, because they’re not owned by you. Even people under contract can’t be assets. Even a View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
sister live like boxcar children on her disability checks. When Casey, following in the footsteps of his father, is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success...
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- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out,...
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