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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
the investment firm, The Baupost Group, or just trying a new restaurant, became not only an adventure but fun.” — HBS adjunct professor emeritus Bill Poorvu View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
integrate professional and personal goals in making career choices. Christina R. Lane (MBA '82) took listeners on a humorous sojourn, recounting her adventures as an international management consultant to governments, businesses, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
herself.) He has tried to pass along the values he learned from his parents to his three children, who have brought him much joy, as have his grandchildren. Each of his children has worked in international development, he notes, and pointing to a spectacular pair of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
compass. Without that special information about ourselves we are susceptible to great periods of wasted time, pain and suffering. Forever Young by Scott Kyle (MBA 1993) and Karyn Langhorne Folan (Liv Mas Press) A romance adventure The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
magnate is as filled with plot twists as a good adventure novel. Engineer to Entrepreneur Rogers took a winding road to entrepreneurship. A self-described “geeky” kid, he graduated with an engineering degree from the University of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Federation of America Award for Media Service. His most recent book,My Vast Fortune, due out this month, is a memoir that recalls some of his greatest adventures and misadventures with money. It includes accounts of another facet of... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
four adventurous kids across all seven colors of an amazing rainbow to see how all colors stand and shine better together. We learn from nature that our own Human Rainbow is much the same because: With our own special mix of colors and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
from those of Western firms, and describe how multinationals doing business in China can become part of the Chinese ecosystem of new knowledge and technology. Flyfisher’s Guide to New England by Lou Zambello (MBA 1981) (Wilderness View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
"Well, the school teacher's out here." And I said, "Don't feel put upon. What we're trying to do is safeguard this thing for the next time we try something like this. We'll make much more money, but you'll all be scared a lot less. It'll just work the way it should, as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
the greatest amount of pride today. What books have you read lately? Alan Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World; Michael Beschloss’s MBA ’80 book on Lyndon Johnson, which is fantastic; and even some John le Carré.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
person; the nit-picking, antisocial groucher; or the obnoxious imbiber. We want caring people who have some romance and adventure left in their bones." It goes without saying that Evanson would also like to host people who will appreciate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling you that he feels like a failure. He feels like he has ruined the business his father began in the early 1900s. And he wants you to save the business. Through the story of Rick Cohen, I have invited the students to join me emotionally and psychologically in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
surroundings? “There was little bit of a thrill or a sense of adventure that came from that. I loved it.” This ease with the unknown would seem to make her a natural entrepreneur. “Running my own business wasn’t initially in my own DNA or... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
preventive treatments," says Greenberg, who plans to open thirty more stores by the year 2000. "Our aim is to help people take control of their health care." —J.A.R. « Back African Adventure As a second-year student at HBS, Monique Maddy... View Details