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- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
claiming valuable new natural resources. It’s a modern set of economic motives that aren’t much different from those that set whalers sailing south more than a century ago. While Nohria sees promise in the commercialization of space, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
book, The Proving Ground. Knecht made ten trips to Australia to research what it was like on board three of the boats, including Sayonara, skippered by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, one of the wealthiest men in the world. Knecht has written a real page-turner — “a View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
cruise-director cheeriness. "It's a 24/7 business, with ships sailing every day, everywhere in the world," Swartz says by phone from her office in Valencia, California. "Our ships are small cities." Time on the road: 10 days a month. "We... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
thirty years. He first sailed to China at the age of sixteen, and later became the sole agent in Canton for Perkins & Co. He became the wealthiest foreign agent in China and for a time served as the American consul there. The collection... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. “I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me,” he says. In his first interview... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
outcome.” As an accomplished sailor, what parallels, if any, do you see between sailing and your career? “I think athletics always have close parallels to business. Some examples I have noticed throughout my (very short) career include:... View Details
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
to no other American house in China. Indeed, I doubt if many would not have called it the first.” 37 John Heard sailed for America on December 1, 1862, the same year Augustine Heard retired from the business. Hao, The Commercial... View Details
- Profile
Marie Kyle
than design," Marie says. "That wasn't what I wanted to do." After a heart-to-heart conversation with her sailing coach, she realized that she, "loved the problem-solving aspect of engineering," and, with her... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
the ground up. You can be extremely passionate about something and you can be extremely adept at running a business, but no ship sails itself alone. Teresa Danso-Danquah: I wish we could live in a world that really embraces universal... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
US in mixed 5.5 meter yacht sailing in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. More information here. Jim Wolfensohn (MBA 1959) was a fencer on the Australian team at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. More information here. Phil Conley (MBA 1962)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
sailing feat yet. It was time for me to place another call to update his amazing story (see article). Last March, skippering the 60-foot Great American III, Wilson completed this year’s Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, singlehanded,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
your hands.” The “aha” moment: A 2010 sabbatical to sail with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, in an activist campaign against whale hunting in Antarctica. “I don’t think I intended to change careers but, afterward, I almost had no... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
their citizens’ long-term interests. So I decided to go over to the dark side and act. I joined up as a ship’s engineer on the 200-foot vessel Steve Irwin, which set sail out of Hobart, Tasmania, toward Antarctica. On a stunning, sunny... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
directory and survey of Europe's five hundred high-growth entrepreneurs and the issues that concern them. With a calendar still filled with speaking engagements and meetings, Twaalfhoven doesn't devote much time to his two favorite sports — View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael Hammons (MBA 2001) View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
"bailout"—an understandable conundrum, since government is sailing between Scylla and Charybdis as it plots "solutions." Tighter credit will eliminate the shakiest loans, but will shut off many credit-impaired... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
by an energizing day of golf, barbeque and pool games. The crescendo of the summer came with our trip to Miami for sailing and beach hijinks. These events helped forge happy memories that will remain with me. After securing the full-time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
used to operating under intense pressure without letting the pressure get to us. When you sail in a submarine for a three-month patrol in the Cold War, you have two ways to treat your crew. You can treat them as pawns on a chessboard and... View Details