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- 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
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
be able to learn how not to run a business, and I figured it was time to go learn what the mistakes were and how not to repeat them in the future. That’s pretty much how I ended up at Harvard.” With an MBA in hand, Kendall spent a few years at a welding company, but... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
to shift performance to a high level. The Trek: Adventure and Enlightenment on a Climb to the Summit of Kala Patthar, above Mount Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas by David Schachne (MBA 1990) (Relevant Corporation LLC) Schachne tells... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
strategy to get us through this period of uncertainty, both with the Eclipse and with the broader economy. I see this as an interim step that will allow us to level off and get to the point where we can start climbing again.” ALL ABOARD:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
had not heard even in the Navy, he took his manila envelope, ripped it in half, and climbed back into the limo and sped away. We were all dumbfounded until someone examined the remnants of his envelope and discovered that all the sheets... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
HBS professor? If you did, what impact did he or she have on you? “I had so many fantastic professors at HBS that it’s hard to pick one favorite. I loved the energy that Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell brought to our Strategy class when he would jump on top of desks... View Details
- 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 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employees. By 2012, sales had increased by nearly 50 percent, and VW’s brand ranking had climbed from No. 55 to No. 39. Based on consumer surveys, brand monitor Interbrand selected VW as the top environmental brand in 2012. While creating... View Details
- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel successful and in control, View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
learn the seven biggest traps in life and work that catch people unaware; identify the traps that are holding them back; discover their escape routes and climb out of the quicksand; and avoid traps altogether. The Mystical Naturalist: How... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... 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