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Sebastian Vargas
possible to turn back time. Another group of fun memories is thinking about my dad cheering for me during soccer matches. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? It’s two individuals for me: my mom and dad. They...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together at 12,000 feet under a full moon...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
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
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
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
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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
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
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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- 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
- 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 Sep 2017
- News
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
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
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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- 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 Dec 2003
- News
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 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
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
his two daughters' soccer and basketball teams and usually finds time to go to a gym regularly. "When I'm not up physically, the whole company feels it," he says. "In fact, when things were really bad, one of the activities that kept me...
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Deborah Blagg
- 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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- 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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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Image by Greg Betza Alison Rapaport (MBA 2018) has always been passionate about sports, both as a spectator and a participant. “I love being part of a team and I’m super competitive, so I like to win,” she laughs. Rapaport grew up in Los Angeles playing View Details
- 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