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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
sailing feat yet. It was time for me to place another call to update his amazing story (see article). Last March, skippering the 60-foot Great American III, Wilson completed this year’s Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, singlehanded,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
directory and survey of Europe's five hundred high-growth entrepreneurs and the issues that concern them. With a calendar still filled with speaking engagements and meetings, Twaalfhoven doesn't devote much time to his two favorite sports — View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear sailing ahead, right? Wrong,... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
thirty years. He first sailed to China at the age of sixteen, and later became the sole agent in Canton for Perkins & Co. He became the wealthiest foreign agent in China and for a time served as the American consul there. The collection... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. “I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me,” he says. In his first interview... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
by an energizing day of golf, barbeque and pool games. The crescendo of the summer came with our trip to Miami for sailing and beach hijinks. These events helped forge happy memories that will remain with me. After securing the full-time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
used to operating under intense pressure without letting the pressure get to us. When you sail in a submarine for a three-month patrol in the Cold War, you have two ways to treat your crew. You can treat them as pawns on a chessboard and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
cruise-director cheeriness. "It's a 24/7 business, with ships sailing every day, everywhere in the world," Swartz says by phone from her office in Valencia, California. "Our ships are small cities." Time on the road: 10 days a month. "We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
price point, packaging, colors. I wanted to make a product that I would buy and that my friends would buy. OW: I’m sure it wasn’t all smooth sailing in the early months or years. Were there any moments where you thought, this is not going... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
your hands.” The “aha” moment: A 2010 sabbatical to sail with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, in an activist campaign against whale hunting in Antarctica. “I don’t think I intended to change careers but, afterward, I almost had no... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael Hammons (MBA 2001) View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
monastery. We have also taken a few mini-sabbaticals to range further afield, helping to expand a nonprofit peace organization in Cambodia, sailing around the world twice as professors with 500 college students on the Semester at Sea... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
rugby in the MBA World Championship, she’s taken home numerous sailing awards for Ireland and is the only woman to win Ireland’s Helmsman’s Championship in the event’s sixty-year history. “My passion for View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
to no other American house in China. Indeed, I doubt if many would not have called it the first.” 37 John Heard sailed for America on December 1, 1862, the same year Augustine Heard retired from the business. Hao, The Commercial... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
the ground up. You can be extremely passionate about something and you can be extremely adept at running a business, but no ship sails itself alone. Teresa Danso-Danquah: I wish we could live in a world that really embraces universal... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and carried exports to markets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint