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- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Nick Gerry-Bullard
Keep the mountains tall. As a kid, I spent a lot of time outdoors in California. I’ve backpacked along the Lost Coast, clambering from the base of a trickling, fern-covered ravine to the top of a windswept highland overlooking the... View Details
Roger A. Enrico
player in the snack and beverage industry, which enabled it to gain significant market share and post improved profitability numbers. During his tenure, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew were the second and third largest soda brands, Aquafina... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Portrait Project
Andrew Huynh
forests and snow-capped mountain peaks these past two years certainly reinvigorated my love for our parks. It also served as a stark reminder of their fragility. From warming oceans killing coral reefs to the presidential proclamation... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Ramchandran Jaikumar, the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration and a renowned authority on manufacturing management and technology, died on February 10 of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Quito, Ecuador. He was 53... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Haven for the Homeless
Greg Harms (MBA 1989) served on the board of the Boulder (Colorado) Shelter for the Homeless for five years before he experienced a career-altering revelation. “One day, I realized that shelter work was more fun than my day job,” he told the Rocky View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
1996) grew up skiing in the mountains of Idaho but switched to snowboarding in his 20s. Skiing was for moms and dads. Snowboarders did cool tricks and sported hip-hop-style pants and parkas with graffiti graphics. “It didn’t have to be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
In early September, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
traffic to his site had spiked 50%. ‘There are 1 billion children around the world who are suddenly out of school,’ he says. ‘We’re a stopgap.’” Based in Mountain View, California, Khan Academy had 18 million students using the site every... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
As executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) is incorporating local Appalachian culture into the education and daily lives of the rural community the school serves. In this interview,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tathagata (TAT) Sarkar
different aspects of my life, I idolize different persons based solely on their influence on me in that aspect. My idols include: a homeless flutist, high-school statistics teacher, self-made billionaire, college senior who pursued his passion of View Details
- Career Coach
Courtney Fairbrother
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority and Rocky Mountain Institute. Work Experience: Higher Education, Sustainability Operations, State Government, Non-profit Think Tank, Energy Development, Consulting View Details
- Career Coach
Michelle Luo
available. She is happy to help with career visioning, interview prep, and structuring your job search, whether through campus resources such as 12twenty or a self-sourced search. Employment Experience: Google (Maps, Enterprise, Arts&Culture // View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
tech founder and startup consultant. Burned out, Staff took a few months off before enrolling at HBS to park a borrowed Airstream trailer in various towns around the Mountain West. That was an experiment in tiny living; in Bozeman,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
long-dominant idea that the individual mind (“I think, therefore I am”) could by itself know about the world. The nature of Davidson’s reality was broad indeed. He was a mountain climber, surfer, pilot, and accomplished pianist (who... View Details
- Portrait Project
Heidi von Allmen
'Be passionate. Life is an adventure—play hard! Seek your edge. Closer to fine, baby!' Aaaah, the mottos of my youth, back when I could move mountains if I wished (usually I just skied them but that's a minor detail). But now, which words... View Details
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Olivia Melendez
organizational behavior would really enhance my ability to lead. I was also ready for a personal change. As much as I loved my West Coast life (especially weekends in Tahoe), I have to admit that I missed the East Coast! Coming to HBS is like... ...reaching the summit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
China Dominates HBS Business Plan Contest
45 million Chinese women. In the social enterprise track, Jose Dias de Barros and Shawn Tan (both MBA ’06) took top honors for Yashmere, a venture that would export yashmere (yak) yarn from one of China’s poorest regions to the U.S. market. View Details
- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
believe cancer was fatal. I wish to hear laughter in my classroom when I remind students of how serious and pretentious they were on their oh-so-important first day of university. I want to make my wife laugh as we lazily watch the sunset from a newly climbed View Details