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- 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
- Profile
Domingo Garcia-Huidobro
situation we are. What’s the best thing about your home town? It’s very difficult to get lost in Santiago. You can see the beautiful Andes Mountains from basically everywhere and if you are walking in that direction, you know you are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Portrait Project
Janice Lin
nothing but a career and a bank account. Instead, I will see all the oceans and travel to each continent. I'll sit with penguins in Antarctica and play with pandas in China. I'll ride a motorcycle through the winding mountain roads —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
have made it without my teammates,” said Graeme. “That was the most important lesson I learned on the trip.” Unfortunately, three members of the group did not make it up the mountain due to altitude sickness and fatigue. “At one point or... View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Huynh
forests and snow-capped mountain peaks these past two years certainly reinvigorated my love for our parks. It also served as a stark reminder of their fragility. From warming oceans killing coral reefs to the presidential proclamation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Haven for the Homeless
Greg Harms (MBA 1989) served on the board of the Boulder (Colorado) Shelter for the Homeless for five years before he experienced a career-altering revelation. “One day, I realized that shelter work was more fun than my day job,” he told the Rocky View Details
- Portrait Project
Christine Keung
homework as I could while sitting between the soda machine and a mountain of takeout boxes. Success was getting an education that would free me from what I thought were limits of my upbringing. I’ve since earned an education that has far... View Details
- Web
Living in Boston | MBA
Maine, the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, and many charming New England coastal towns are all within easy reach. From four-star bistros to neighborhood restaurants, American Repertory Theater to Fenway Park, Boston Pops to a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program... View Details
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Triston Francis
Mountain View, California, Triston noticed that “a lot of people I looked up to had an MBA. Even in the tech world, the people I aspired to be like had an MBA – that’s what put it on my radar.” That radar tracked one object: HBS. “I... View Details
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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart) Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms Rocky View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
The book represents a milestone in a lifelong personal spiritual odyssey, a process he likens to climbing a mountain with many paths to the top. Richly anecdotal, the volume provides examples of spiritual journeys drawn from literature... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
traffic to his site had spiked 50%. ‘There are 1 billion children around the world who are suddenly out of school,’ he says. ‘We’re a stopgap.’” Based in Mountain View, California, Khan Academy had 18 million students using the site every... View Details
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
remote mountain hideouts where many died before relief efforts reached them. “They are genocide victims,” states Aziza, who now works full time with Operation Ezra, an initiative led by the city’s active Jewish community that has raised... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
achieving it. Upon graduation, Cohen joined Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), a management consulting firm in Mountain View, California, that specializes in operations work for technology-driven companies. It took her a few years to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
of my gear to the porters," says Petzel, who has climbed all of the "Seven Summits"—the tallest mountain on each of Earth's seven continents. He now occupies himself at a more manageable altitude in London, where he works for Goldman... View Details
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
get a booking that year, they are then given a date and time to show up. Reaching elBulli's coastal perch involves traveling to Barcelona, then negotiating two hours of narrow, twisting mountain roads. But then they enjoy a five-hour meal... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
On September 5, 2024, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers... View Details