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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
sold in seven Southeast states. (Fans recommend the Cold Mountain Winter Ale and award-winning Black Mocha Stout.) "Highland is well-known for its support of the Asheville community," notes Baker. "This is an especially interesting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Profile
Domingo Garcia-Huidobro
situation we are. What’s the best thing about your home town? It’s very difficult to get lost in Santiago. You can see the beautiful Andes Mountains from basically everywhere and if you are walking in that direction, you know you are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
i-lab—has given Cryoocyte the funding and fresh ideas needed to hone its technology in the field. To gather viable eggs for testing, the company’s Allston-based team has had to follow spawning season, from Panama to the Patagonia View Details
- Student-Profile
A Jay Holmgren
A Jay Holmgren (he/him) hadn’t yet developed a strong interest in health policy when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History in 2011. But when his father was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, A Jay found himself struggling to manage a View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
feet) is the world's tallest mountain. That idea grew into the challenge, well known among serious mountaineers (including a number of HBS alumni), of also climbing the rest of the famed "Seven Summits"—the tallest View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
the water, and if they did, they wouldn’t recommend the boats they’re selling. You want a paddlesports-specific retailer—a good one will offer lessons and tours too.” Fit matters. “It’s really important, just as in skiing or mountain... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- Profile
Blake Landro
Making a dramatic shift in both industry and location, Blake decided to make a difference at Google, in Mountain View, CA, where he worked on Google Checkout, an online payment platform for small- to medium-sized businesses. “It had just... View Details
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Triston Francis
Mountain View, California, Triston noticed that “a lot of people I looked up to had an MBA. Even in the tech world, the people I aspired to be like had an MBA – that’s what put it on my radar.” That radar tracked one object: HBS. “I... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart) Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms Rocky View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
must be prepared to act when the stakes are much greater than expected. What Signals Should Leaders Send During A Crisis? High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
onions. We preserve our own onions at the restaurant and use batch-made gin from Berkshire Mountain Distillers in Massachusetts." Kitchen essentials: "A really nice, heavy sauté pan that can also go in the oven. A pair of tongs. A fish... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
company, explains the former American Express marketing executive, an online firm "must delay profitability to build brand equity." In other ways, however, doing business on the Web is unique. Like mountain climbing, Carpenter says, it's... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
schools, health-care system, or electricity. Even today, in a country whose capital has only one traffic light, our route over the breathtakingly narrow mountain passes required all our drivers’ considerable skill and patience. We... View Details
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Alice Yang
applied for a position with the organization, and in the summer of 2003, became Farmer’s research assistant. “It was just before Tracy Kidder’s bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, was published. PIH was still relatively small –... View Details
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Alex Furleigh
horses with my cousins, and traversing some of the tallest mountains in the Rockies, I will always look back on my trips to Colorado as reminders of why family is so important to me. Who is one person from your life that you admire the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
cat, and conducted a cerebrospinal fluid analysis on a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, among many other delicate surgical tasks. For Anderson, co–managing partner of South Texas Veterinary Specialists LLP (STVS) in San Antonio, this is all in... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, Blum is a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
illusion that supplies would be limited. In fact, there were very few supply shortages. In both cases, the marketers anticipated demand levels pretty well. As the mountains of press coverage and strong opening day sales attest, the... View Details
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Damali Brown
and willing to talk to me. Despite the stereotypes some people hold about Harvard, this is a very collaborative, helpful place." Stepping outside the comfort zone — and up a steep and distant mountain Encouraged by her experience,... View Details