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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock... View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford merged his boyhood love of New... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
caterpillars, gazelle, and crocodile. They hiked through rain forests in Costa Rica and across high mountain passes in the Himalayas. They camped on the Serengeti surrounded by wild animals and slept in Japanese ryokans. Simon says the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Mercedes, Jennifer, and Albert truly gave me a gift. Each taught me how to be a better boss. Even more important, they taught me how to be a better person. — Joel Manby (MBA ’85), formerly CEO of Saab Automobile USA, leads Atlanta-based Herschend Family Entertainment,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
for spouses or partners and for children ages 11 to 18. In addition, there are several pre- and post-forum tours, including trips to the Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge mountains and to Civil War battlefields at Manassas and Gettysburg. View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
mountainous peaks, Frey learned to climb as a way to explore the native scenery. Seeking higher peaks to climb, he summited Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro (19, 341 feet) while on safari with his daughter Meredith in August 2005. In 2009, he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
From Wildlife to Winetasting
or the rain forest in Uganda. Several shorter trips in and around Cape Town - including tours of Robben Island, Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens, and Table Mountain - are available, as are overnights that offer winetasting, deep-sea... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
the National Ability Center in Park City, Utah, which provides year-round adaptive sports and recreation activities, including horseback riding, cycling, mountain biking, waterskiing, climbing, and others. Inspired, Perez de Leza started... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
trek to summit Kala Patthar, a mountain towering above Mount Everest Base Camp (17,598 feet) in the Himalayas. Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) (Sarah Crichton Books) Spar explores... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
“getting a chance to step out of those roles and cut loose with music we love is also just a blast.” When Scheel is not cutting loose onstage, he’s in charge of mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, and technology partnerships at Symantec, a View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
business skills, but the profits go to underwrite scholarships at Deza’s high school in a poor, mountainous region in Peru. “I have such a passion for being a catalyst so others can flourish,” she said. A glimpse of Deza’s style could be... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Overcoming the Challenges Within By Sunder Hemrajani (AMP 180, 2011) Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Since his school days, author Sunder Hemrajani had taken a keen interest in trekking and mountaineering. His love for the mountains started... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, written by Tracy Kidder and originally published in 2003, is a fascinating, close-on look at... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
feet) is the world's tallest mountain. That idea grew into the challenge, well known among serious mountaineers (including a number of HBS alumni), of also climbing the rest of the famed "Seven Summits"—the tallest View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
by Rusty McClure (MBA ’75) and Dave Stern (Ternary Publishing) Another Faust by Daniel Nayeri and Dina Viergutz (MBA ’06) (Candlewick) Killer Mountain (a thriller) by Peter Pinkham (MBA ’50) (MFDC Press) Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Free (The High Mountain Sheriffs Series) by Ed Massey (MBA 1967) (Pen-L Publishing) Are You Talent Obsessed? Unlocking the Secrets to a Workplace Team of Raving High-Performers by Beth Armknecht Miller (OPM 30, 2001) (Amazon) This book is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
extraordinary musical talent who neglects the deeper, spiritual part of himself in the excitement of pursuing his performance career of playing to large crowds. After a crisis of self-doubt, he returns to his grandfather's mountain cabin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an... View Details