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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
to turn it into a for-profit business, but I thought somehow people needed to know about it and what could be done. And then came the aha moment: I was hiking in the desert with my mother on a very hot day, drinking out of a water bottle... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and hiking in New Hampshire. Now that we’re back in LA, we miss the proximity of all of those things but 100 percent definitely don’t miss the weather.” What advice do you have for HBS students interested in launching their own startups?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
through their lives, having children of their own, he continued to think of Gibbs’s daughter and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her—the sons and daughters of moms and dads who lost their lives on duty in the military. The idea... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into an expansive green space, with hiking and biking trails, a bat sanctuary, a skate park, and an amphitheater that is home to the city’s Fourth of July... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply. 48 Peaks: View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
business friendly. We're family and community oriented. It's football heaven—Go, Cowboys! It's full of sunshine. Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
who beat Jack Sock in three sets at the Delray Beach Open in 2023 despite balancing the game with a full-time job. Hiker “Invest in a pair of adjustable hiking poles, because they take a lot of the strain off your joints and they’re great... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
from that rate hike and from just saying it again and again and again. And lots of people shifted and started feeling that Obamacare wasn't working as a result of that. And it came right around the same time as the Comey revelations.... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
of Restorsea intrigued Krentz, who asked for more information and suggested she meet with HBS classmate Muneer Satter, formerly of Goldman Sachs. In less than five days, Satter had funded the balance of the necessary capital. (Krentz also invested.) Pao hit upon the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
injured or die every year from avoidable medical errors. This field manual provides practical guidance on how hospital patients and their advocates can avoid those errors by taking up a weapon and bringing the fight to the enemy. 48 Peaks: View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
caterpillars, gazelle, and crocodile. They hiked through rain forests in Costa Rica and across high mountain passes in the Himalayas. They camped on the Serengeti surrounded by wild animals and slept in Japanese ryokans. Simon says the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoorsman, he grew up in San Francisco and spent his childhood hiking and fishing with his family in the Pacific Northwest. The scenery in Manhattan is a bit different, he admits. “We have a different kind of canyon here,” he laughs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the business, View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
turned 16, Moore hatched an idea: He would hike to Katahdin, 35 miles away, by himself. He planned carefully, making lists of provisions and collecting rough maps of the untracked land, which would later become the last miles of the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
the Northwest. So that's a really big trend that we see. Another one that's really important to us is getting the next generation into the outdoors and learning activities like hiking and climbing. White: You get to see this as a sport.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
with excellent wines, friendly tasting rooms, and English-speaking staff; lists of markets, site-seeing ideas, and where to hike and bike. An Insider’s Guide to Provence will help you make the most of this glorious corner of France.... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
Only a few members of the group, including Maria Gulovich, who had hiked up the mountain to Vel’ký bok after Christmas dinner to tend the signal fire, escaped the German assault. The next day US planes dropped the supplies Green had been... View Details