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- 03 Jul 2008
- News
A Better Solution for China
- 02 Nov 2019
- News
American Business Schools Are Reinventing the MBA
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
connecting with nature and being outdoors - whether it's hiking in the White Mountains, fishing for stripers, or just going out to see the whales off Stellwagen Bank. I don't know - maybe I would have been a fishing or climbing guide.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce price View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
fun in what I do is the best part of my work," says Jakurski, clearly in his element at his central Rio office surrounded by computer terminals. While Jakurski loves his profession, his interests reach far beyond the world of finance. A wine connoisseur, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
Sarah Kauss Sarah Kauss In a recent episode of NPR’s How I Built This, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) discussed the formation of the reusable water bottle company S’well. The key revelation, she notes, came during a hike in 2009 with her mother,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
trips that include biking along the Silk Road, hiking pilgrimage trails in Tibet, or exploring Shanghai’s colonial past. “This year we will have several thousand clients, mostly foreigners,” Zhang said. “By 2002, we aim to have half... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
had kids, we did not want to stop traveling. How young were your children on your first trip? When my son was five and my daughter was eight, we went to the Galapagos Islands and the Ecuadorian rainforests. We swam with sea lions and went View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
Barron recalls one professor chiding him for "studying the hiking trails of Scotland more than anything else." Despite his numerous academic and extracurricular interests, including writing, business came first for Barron, thanks to his... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
—World traveler, public speaker, and consultant Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) is the author of Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking across America and The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. While on his way to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
2,000 to 2,700. Even so, he finds time for hiking with his wife, Mary Ann, and reading. At some point, he would like to explore teaching business courses at a university. As for Interbake's future, Baxter remains confident of continued... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
have you climbed?” I ask one of my hiking companions, Demetri Coupounas (MBA ’93), who goes by the nickname “Coup.” “All of them,” Coup replies matter-of-factly. He beckons to his wife, Kim (MBA ’95), and points at a mountain across the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
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... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
Stroeer left her job as a consultant in 2015 and converted a van to live out of as she ran, climbed, and hiked through the backcountry, she didn’t plan on turning her lifestyle into a one-woman business. But, she says, “I realized very... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Mar 2015
- News
Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings
environment have on where and how you live.” Gilbane is on the board of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into a stunning green space with hiking and biking trails,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers