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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
to exercise. It was the key to his longevity, he said, along with lots of sleep and no alcohol or tobacco. He was known for walking from airports to downtown hotels and climbing the stairs in skyscrapers. He ran his first marathon, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
There’s no telling when business travel will rebound, but if history is any guide, we will have to be patient. It took four years for business travel to climb back to previous levels after the terrorist attacks of 2001. With fewer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
climbing on Mt. Erie, not far from the Whidbey Island base. While storing their gear after a successful climb, Feagler lost his footing and plunged one hundred feet down the mountain. The fall broke his back and a dozen ribs, leaving him... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
Spring 2005 Reunion photo galleries Open the gallery Photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg. View the reunion photo gallery archive Like climbing aboard a bicycle for the first time in many years, alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
operations by climbing onto the vehicle and placing himself in front of the dozer operator and thus protecting the operator with his own life until the breach was complete. Major Gurfein’s bold and decisive actions directly lead to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
women - has climbed well above the competition. With some two million visitors to its Web site each month, iVillage attracts more than twice as much traffic as its nearest competitor. "We've established a commanding lead," Carpenter... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
situation. They told us, you know, the snake gets to a set of stairs and it can't climb the set of stairs. So, a human being has to somehow program it for those specific stairs. Where, you as a human, if you see a set of stairs that are... 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
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Kim and Coup, summiting Green Mountain is an easy 3.3-mile hike that they can do before work. The couple have climbed some of the world’s most beautiful and challenging peaks, including legendary Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
have the greatest impact. She may be a COO, but Heidi Brooks is much more than a number-cruncher sitting at a desk all day. A woman of action, occasionally she trades in her pantsuit and briefcase for a cargo vest and backpack. In 2012, she View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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 of the 50 states and four of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
handle in good conditions, let alone for four months in the open ocean. Sometimes you’re a thousand miles from the nearest ship or point of land. Other times you risk getting run over by ships or crashing into things in the water: whales, cargo containers, tree trunks.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
we ask, ‘how can we have a positive impact to bring down the COVID-19 numbers?’” Lundgren says attendance has steadily climbed as the pandemic wears on, as people seek both practical guidance—how to stay safe, wear a mask, etc—as well as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
meeting unprecedented demand: The furniture industry, used to 2 percent to 4 percent annual growth, Sundy says, has seen that climb to between 30 percent and 40 percent. “The question now is, How do you manage a business through the... View Details