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- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student....
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Himalayan Journey
Thanks to a special permit, we had the rare privilege of entering the sacred Taktshang Monastery (“Tiger’s Nest”), built on the side of a cliff almost 3,000 feet above the Paro Valley floor. Those in the group who chose not to hike had...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
injured or die every year from avoidable medical errors. This field manual provides practical guidance on how hospital patients and their advocates can avoid those errors by taking up a weapon and bringing the fight to the enemy. 48 Peaks: View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
to turn it into a for-profit business, but I thought somehow people needed to know about it and what could be done. And then came the aha moment: I was hiking in the desert with my mother on a very hot day, drinking out of a water bottle...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called...
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- 02 Mar 2017
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Such Great Heights
the Northwest. So that's a really big trend that we see. Another one that's really important to us is getting the next generation into the outdoors and learning activities like hiking and climbing. White: You get to see this as a sport....
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- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
with excellent wines, friendly tasting rooms, and English-speaking staff; lists of markets, site-seeing ideas, and where to hike and bike. An Insider’s Guide to Provence will help you make the most of this glorious corner of France....
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- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
love nature. I love hiking. I love going to Tibet and just hike for days and days, or go to the Andes and do the same thing, hiking all the way Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, which is just physically thrilling...
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- 25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston
which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into an expansive green space, with hiking and biking trails, a bat sanctuary, a skate park, and an amphitheater that is home to the city’s Fourth of July...
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- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
business friendly. We're family and community oriented. It's football heaven—Go, Cowboys! It's full of sunshine. Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply. 48 Peaks: View Details
- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
Keeper, a faith-inspired humanitarian organization that partners with South Sudanese women in support of social, political, and economic justice. In 2016, Brooks and a friend spent four days hiking the 26-mile Inca Trail in Peru to...
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Jennifer Myers
- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and hiking in New Hampshire. Now that we’re back in LA, we miss the proximity of all of those things but 100 percent definitely don’t miss the weather.” What advice do you have for HBS students interested in launching their own startups?...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
Only a few members of the group, including Maria Gulovich, who had hiked up the mountain to Vel’ký bok after Christmas dinner to tend the signal fire, escaped the German assault. The next day US planes dropped the supplies Green had been...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
from that rate hike and from just saying it again and again and again. And lots of people shifted and started feeling that Obamacare wasn't working as a result of that. And it came right around the same time as the Comey revelations....
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the business, View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
turned 16, Moore hatched an idea: He would hike to Katahdin, 35 miles away, by himself. He planned carefully, making lists of provisions and collecting rough maps of the untracked land, which would later become the last miles of the...
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