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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
tool, both to customers and to publishers, which see bookstores like BookHampton as a way to introduce new authors, who might otherwise have trouble climbing the Amazon rankings. All the changes have had a positive effect on the bottom... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967–1974, 1986) JDM on the Production Cycle “Carl Garrett liked to leave the main offices and walk over to one of the production areas and climb to the catwalk and lean on the rail and look down at the acres... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a natural View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING TRIO: Bishop, Murphy, and Serafini stay in shape. Three HBS students are out to set a world record by scaling the seven tallest mountains on seven continents in seven months — all to raise $5 million to help fight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
“If I had known how hard it would be, I never would have done it. But I’m really glad I did.” That was the most common response among the group of fifteen HBS alumni and friends who participated in the pre-safari optional adventure of View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the porters who assist the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
The Last Frontier
have...is that people like me. The other is that my logic is impeccable. My life, my death, my control.” The article noted, “Gardner does not live like a man waiting to die” as he works out regularly and prepares to climb Mt. Rainier. The... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Photo courtesy of Martin Frey Martin Frey (AMP 165, 2003) didn’t plan to become the first person in the world to climb the Seven Summits and sail the Seven Seas, an achievement that earned him placement in the Guinness World Records. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and funds for... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
market to decide” what executive compensation should be, but added that “the problem comes when the market isn’t really free, and the CEO largely sets his own pay.” He further pointed out that from 1980 to 2001, the average working person’s pay rose 74 percent, while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track of when asked about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
met several hundred of my classmates and discovered something unexpected: The proportion that had run marathons or climbed Kilimanjaro was statistically improbable within a random sampling of people. These Herculean feats of endurance... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is rapidly View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
professional guides, outfitters, expedition users, and gear junkies,” reported the Contra Costa Times (May 20, 2011). The Times noted that climbing teams recently reached the summit of Everest with the advantage of SlingFin tent’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
individuals succeed in their innovative endeavors. In addition, each chapter provides a link to a short video that reveals further insights, mostly from the innovators themselves. Seven Climbs: Finding the Finest Climb on Each Continent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Mountains for Miracles Update
Three HBS students are climbing the world’s tallest mountains to raise money to fight childhood cancer. Donations may be made at: www.mountainsformiracles.org. View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
proposal. At the end of FIELD 3, the team—which was by then armed with a better understanding of both sides of the market and how to engage business owners—pitched HourlyNerd again. This time, the mock stock price climbed to the maximum... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
Worldreader was quickly a success story in the global south, amassing more than 2 million users in just five years. Global figures continued to climb but, in the spring of 2020, when schools across the United States were closed due to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Excerpt: Sweet Returns Jeffrey Chokel’s (MBA 1970) new book, Lessons Learned After Harvard Business School: Wisdom Shared by the Class of 1970, includes the stories of 132 of his classmates, which the former Harbus editor collected over six years. Here, an excerpt from... View Details