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...Friday Harvard will compete in the New England Championships, one of the major races of the season and typically a tune-up for the prestigious Heptagonals. The Crimson will look to cut its times significantly, and it hopes for a strong showing at the race that will feature over 20 schools from New England...
Playing well and beginning to gel in its final tune-up before its most crucial match of the weekend, the Crimson then turned its attention to the St. Francis team that stood between it and Northerns...
John Klotsche, 56, is getting the same kind of tune-up. The chairman of Baker & McKenzie, an elite global law firm with 2,400 attorneys in 34 countries, Klotsche decided that the 550 partners in the firm, himself included, did not know enough about how to manage business in today's fast-changing marketplace. So the boss has headed to the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., to study business topics like strategic planning, delivering client value and implementing corporate change. Klotsche's firm is investing $4 million to $5 million...
That fall season, however, was only a tune-up for the spring, where the Crimson would face its toughest schedule...
Harvard won both its games, 15-1 over Wellesley and 17-12 over Brown, but the latter win was less convincing than the Crimson would have liked in its tune-up for better competition down the road...