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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
from 150 years of neglect. It tells of the travails of Henrietta Polydore, a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
a mountain of cash — 40 to 50 percent of Baupost’s $14 billion–plus in assets — for several years, the firm’s recent investments have cut its cash stash in half. Distress selling, it seems, breeds the kind of bargains Klarman lives for.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
courses. As for diversion, to be honest, I don’t have much free time. But every chance I get, I like to go mountain biking near Skopje, the capital, or spend a weekend relaxing in my hometown beside beautiful Lake Ohrid, one of the oldest... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
table in their San Francisco apartment. It was March of 2009. A single sheet of paper sat on the table in front of them. The three founders were on the verge of finishing the three month program at YCombinator (YC), a business accelerator located in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one mountain peak to another through... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
large cadre of data scientists who could develop and run programs to sift through the mountains of genetic data that were being generated every day. But the approach raised other questions. Could people trained in traditional fields of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an opportunity to get into real estate investing in a big way. Morgan Stanley's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
language, it wouldn’t focus on hosting Mountain Dew–fueled, all-night hackathons, she says. “That’s not appealing to everybody. But if you say, ‘Let’s try to find innovative solutions to bringing lights to rural villages,’ and it happens... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
fell during that winter, destroying railroad ties and washing away crops. We had to carry our water for six months because the hydropower machines were overwhelmed and had to stop producing. After the rain, there were droughts and fires. Parts of the forests in the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. He eschews the traditional Seven Summits, where height alone is the determining factor, and instead considers mountaineering challenge, natural beauty, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its tenth year, the Bulletin’s annual student profiles have become something of a tradition. Faced each spring with a mountain of potential candidates, we puzzle our way through a dizzying array of... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
mountain of pension costs. John Macomber, Robert Pozen, and Eric Werker—offer their views on some down-the-road scenarios. Beyond A Bailout By: Senior Lecturer John Macomber Detroit has failed. Why did this happen, might there be more big... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and a love story. It traces an epic journey from inside the human mind to the vastness of space, from AIs battling in the desert to the peace of a mountain refuge. It asks social, spiritual, and philosophical questions that will linger.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
the National Palace, visiting artist Frida Kahlo’s house, and touring the vast National Museum of Anthro-pology. It’s Día de los Reyes (Three Kings Day), a national holiday, so Mexico City’s infamous traffic isn’t too bad; even better, the skies are so clear that we... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
I had some of the newer guys. These were friends. These were folks that they spent every hour with of every day in Afghanistan. And they weren't about to let their buddies stay up on that mountain without immediate help. It became very... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
contractions in demand. At exactly this time, between 2007 and 2012, the provincial municipality of Chongqing in China's mountainous southwest became the fastest growing city in China with GDP growth averaging over 15%. Chongqing's growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Business School Case 814-038 Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (B.) It was January 2013, and Fred Khosravi, chairman of the board of AccessClosure Inc., wondered what the new year had in store for him and AccessClosure, the company he founded in late 2002. Khosravi was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne