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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
factors like wind and water. “There are strategic and tactical elements to sailing,” says Dillon, a native of Ireland. “You need to decide where you want to go and what your competitors are doing. It’s kind of an interactive game that’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95)... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
particularly apparent in the area of trading, where seconds count and system crashes are disastrous. "When Schwab goes down for four hours, it winds up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal," explains McFarlan, who recently... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
be big enough to support a company, and then you see where you can grow from there." After graduation, Dawe worked as a project manager in Maine for Horizon Wind Energy, led by fellow HBS grad Michael Skelly (MBA 1991), for just over a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
you've ever seen it-- it's a very visual sport. It combines sailing, and gymnastics, and parasailing, and gliding. And it's a sport that allows you to basically, harness the forces of nature-- wind and water-- and you can basically, load... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
packaged food, thermal blankets, hygiene and medical products, and two trucks of animal feed were provided in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, and Hatay. "Support poured in from all of FIBA's subsidiaries, including those in the wind power plant... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
Yeah, we do. It’s like a parsnip sandwich with a medlar jam. It’s really fun. Dan Morrell: Ayr Muir always had an interest in the environment. After HBS, he thought he’d find a job in wind power—until a friend gave him an alarming UN... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
we had built an $86 million wind farm.” Going Green Wiviott has been focused on helping the environment for a long time. He received his undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Dartmouth and then founded an environmental... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
if he got lucky, maybe there was a gust of wind that stopped them, maybe things weren't as injured as they thought it was when it was in the air. He will tell you that the only decision he made that he is certain of is that he decided to... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
the company might wind up supplying the technology that closes the door on the NISQ era once and for all. “This,” Levy says, a conspiratorial twinkle in his eye, “is the black art of chipmaking.” Standing in the heart of SEEQC’s chip... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
the workplace. "Divorces, job changes, and the cold wind of personal mortality blowing on my neck have all fed into my interest in issues of personal meaning in relationship to work," Vaill notes. photo courtesy Peter Vaill View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
companies out there in the world, whether or not they’re in the diamond industry.” For Aether, that means vertical integration, including the production of on-site wind and solar energy. And it means finding responsible partners such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending Williams College, he set off to canoe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
decoration. Before the lively party began, one man offered a prayer of gratitude “for our deliverance from the high winds of the wintry mountains and from the cruel snows fallen upon us, and from the perils of the black night and dark... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey