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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Top-Flight Tory
mountain climbing, and flying light aircraft — clearly not a man to mess with,” opined BBC News Online (September 29, 2005). Of his party’s future, Davis said, “Modern Conservatives will show that we are not in politics for ourselves. We... 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
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford merged his boyhood love of New... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
trail running, hiking, surfing, skiing, or mountaineering,” she says. “My husband and I have climbed many of the world’s most beautiful mountains together, including the highest mountain or molehill in each... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
for spouses or partners and for children ages 11 to 18. In addition, there are several pre- and post-forum tours, including trips to the Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge mountains and to Civil War battlefields at Manassas and Gettysburg. View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
There are mountains in the back and the sea in front. It is so peaceful there.” Dance, dance, decompress: “I love to do choreography and dance: traditional Indonesian dance, ballet, and modern.” Food, glorious food: “Padang cuisine from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
From Wildlife to Winetasting
or the rain forest in Uganda. Several shorter trips in and around Cape Town - including tours of Robben Island, Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens, and Table Mountain - are available, as are overnights that offer winetasting, deep-sea... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... 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 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
a mysterious reservations system. If they are lucky enough to be one of the 8,000 who get a booking that year, they are then given a date and time to show up. Reaching elBulli’s coastal perch involves traveling to Barcelona, then negotiating two hours of narrow,... 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
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
being afterwards,” he says. This exploration of indigenous traditions led Sprinkles to apprentice and undergo initiation in the way of the ancient Huichol and Nahua traditions in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Today, he and his wife serve the Blue Deer Center in New... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
New Zealand Adventure
in the group took advantage of a diverse range of activities available to us, including sailing, fishing, golfing, mountain biking, swimming, hiking, glacier climbing, and wine-tasting. Our trip concluded with a tour of Milford Sound,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
Hope, enjoyed the views from atop Table Mountain — at 3,563 feet above sea level, Cape Town’s most famous landmark — visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and toured the city of Cape Town. The HBS Club of South Africa... 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
- 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
- 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