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Stephanie Erickson was tabbed as the new head coach of the Harvard women’s soccer team Friday. Erickson replaces longtime head coach Tim Wheaton, who accepted a position as an assistant athletic director at Harvard in February...
...Erickson was an assistant coach for the Crimson in 1999, when Harvard went 14-2-1 and earned its first-ever seeding in the NCAA Tournament. She then moved on to Stanford as a recruiter, as well as an interim co-head coach in 2002—a season in which the Cardinal captured a national No. 1 ranking and the Stanford staff was named National Coach of the Year by Soccer America...
Most recently, Erickson was an assistant coach at Northwestern—her alma mater—and she also coached...
...more surprising than what Erickson and his peers at a nondescript warehouse in Elizabethtown, Ky., accomplished that day is who they work for: United Parcel Service. Isn't UPS, universally known as Big Brown, a package-delivery company? Yes--and no. Sure, the bulk of the Atlanta-based company's $33 billion in revenue still comes from moving boxes from one place to another. But the company is rapidly expanding into something called supply-chain management, helping hundreds of clients like Royal Canin not only move products from place to place but also store, assemble and repair goods, even interact...
...meantime, Harold Erickson is on the job. He spent much of his 22 years in the military organizing and shipping vital supplies like ammo and armor to thousands of soldiers all over the world. Though he recognizes that his current shipments for UPS clearly don't have that life-or-death urgency, Erickson knows what the customer expects. That's why UPS has an on-time delivery rate that's better than 99% for Royal Canin's upscale pet food. Erickson admits, "I was surprised that UPS did this sort of thing." If Eskew has his way, people...