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- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
as a young HBS grad working for Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, Perez de Leza was mostly looking for ways to strengthen his body and stay healthy. He took up hand-crank cycling, and then discovered adaptive skiing at a program... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
exploring the feasibility of canopy tours of the rainforest. “I was interested in startups and had experience in Latin America, so it seemed like a good fit after HBS,” recalls Skelly. “We wound up building what was essentially a mile-long View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by certain assumptions about human... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Hitler’s treatment of the Jews. More information here. Sam Felton (MBA 1950) competed for the US in the hammer throw at the 1948 London Olympics and the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. More information here. Brooks Dodge (MBA 1958) competed on the US Alpine View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
goals. Illustration of water, energy, and material flows in the Kalundborg Symbiosis. Source: https://www.symbiosis.dk/en/partnerne-bag/ Waste to energy plant diagram - Amager Bakke. Also known as Copenhill. An innovative waste-to-energy plant which doubles as a public... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
People who fly the friendly skies with any regularity have no doubt experienced the not-so-friendly feelings that come with missed connections, canceled flights, and general delays. Angry, powerless, they join the rebooking queue or camp... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
advertising of marijuana, retail storefronts in Denver, Vail, and other ski towns have become the marketing battleground—featuring attractive sales staff in quality retail spaces in prime locations for foot traffic, all of which drives up... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
to her work as an “intuitive facilitator” for individuals and corporations. It also played a significant role in negotiations when the Colorado Air National Guard moved to expand its military training in the skies over Crestone in 1991.... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
willing to bear to reopen the economy. No one can predict with any certainty how shopping patterns and consumer tastes will change. No one can be sure when people will feel safe enough to travel so that the hotels, airlines, restaurants, and View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
itself and its governmental connections need attention, including the desire for NextGen air traffic control and revisiting Open Skies agreements. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
cable channels were aimed at ardent fans who wanted live, beginning-to-end, daytime coverage, from cross-country ski races to early rounds of the hockey tournament. And then there were the real fanatic fans and new media aficionados who... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
properties. “They are in waterproof jackets, bike chain grease, ski wax, and even some fast-food containers and popcorn bags.” The risks, experts say, are that PFAS are “forever chemicals” and can stay in water or the air for hundreds of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
for Management Development. In 1976 he went to work for a small food service company, which he bought a year later. His Boston Concessions Group, Inc., is now a multimillion dollar company that operates and supplies food service concessions in recreational sites... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
the product! Class Secretary Major Albert C. Riggs, Jr. (MBA '50) August 1974 Up to my ears raising kids, plus skiing at Sun Valley and fly-fishing in Montana and Idaho; working has been interfering something terrible! William B. Webber... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
20-year-old college senior with a blond cowlick, he was ready to climb the mountain. The sky was cloudless and the temperatures near zero as Moore and his friend Lewis Thorne skied through the heavy forest. At the tree line, they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and compassion; decide wisely; let go of what you know; achieve meaningful goals and, empower others. This book offers compelling stories of a varied cast of characters, including the head of a skiing expedition to the North Pole, an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
experienced Soviet counterpart, Colonel Ivan Levchenko. The story plays out from the skies over Siberia to the gritty, dangerous streets of East Berlin. The radically different worldviews of Cattani and Levchenko punctuate the deep... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
joined an even more elite group, those who have also skied at least 60 miles to both the North and South Poles. He was the 54th person in history to achieve what is known as the “Explorer’s Grand Slam.” But Vescovo was already looking for... View Details