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High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of mount everest: On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished while climbing Mount Everest. Is there anything business leaders can learn from the tragedy? HBS professor Michael A. Roberto used the tools of management to find out. This multi-lens analysis of the Everest case provides a framework for...; Tags: Leadership, Harvard Knowledgebase, Mount Everest, leader, analysis, team, tool; Case studies 2002-08-26

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Torch reaches top of the world: BEIJING -- An Olympic flame reached the top of the world today. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags today on the top of Mount Everest. "One World, One Dream," team...; Articles 2008-05-08
Torch reaches mount everest summit: BEIJING (AP) -- An Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch -- separate from the main Olympic flame -- along with Chinese and Olympic flags on the peak of Mount Everest....; Articles 2008-05-08
Torch's Everest climb shrouded in secrecy: BEIJING -- Hoisting the Olympic torch up Mount Everest could happen any day, but it remains shrouded by high security, even higher altitude and little information. Chinese climbers are waiting for good weather before carrying the torch up the world's highest mountain for the most ambitious leg...; Articles 2008-05-06
Secrecy cloaks Olympic torch's Everest climb: BEIJING -- Hoisting the Olympic torch up Mount Everest could happen any day, but the task is shrouded by high security, even higher altitude and little information. Chinese climbers are waiting for good weather before carrying the torch up the world's highest mountain for the most ambitious leg...; Articles 2008-05-06

Everest season in doubt as weather delays Olympic torch: KATHMANDU (AFP) — The main climbing season on Mount Everest gets under way this month, but China's Olympic torch relay and bad weather could keep scores of big-spending mountaineers from getting anywhere near the summit. The upper reaches of the world's highest mountain have been sealed off to...; Articles 2008-05-05
Caption only: Coiffing up for the big event: Dancers put on makeup with their hair styled with the Olympic rings Wednesday in Beijing as they get ready for the 100 Days Countdown celebration to the Beijing Summer Olympics. Chinese mountaineers made final preparations Wednesday to take the Olympic flame up Mount Everest in a grand but contentious feat...; Articles 2008-05-01
Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer, skeptic: The conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, who died January 11, 2008, was a man of many famous exploits. Less well known was a 1960 paranormal expedition he conducted in the best skeptical tradition. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 20, 1919, Hillary studied science and...; Articles 2008-05-01
The Olympic torch relay returns to China: The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on March 31. From the Chinese capital, it took a tumultous month-long world tour where it was met with political demonstrators at most stops. Now it returns to China to wind its way through all provinces in the host nation. It arrives back in...; Articles 2008-05-01
Sir Ranulph Fiennes to Carry Digital Angel's McMurdo Personal Locator Beacon on Everest Challenge: SO. ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Digital Angel (NASDAQ:DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced today that British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes will carry a McMurdo FASTFIND PLUS Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) on his climb of Mount Everest. This will be his...; Articles 2008-04-28
Tibetans light 'freedom torch' in Alps Protest in Switzerland a: ZERMATT, Switzerland -- A group of Tibetan exiles carried a "freedom torch" into the Alps on Friday and lit it below the Matterhorn peak in protest against China. A global torch relay organized by Tibetan groups chose the 14,692- foot Matterhorn as a symbolic tribute to...; Articles 2008-04-26
China throws Everest torch coverage into doubt: BEIJING, April 24, 2008 (AFP) — Beijing abruptly closed the door Thursday on most foreign media coverage of the Olympic torch's Mount Everest ascent after journalists raised concerns over safety and reporting curbs in restive Tibet. The move marks the latest controversy to hit Beijing's grand plans for...; Articles 2008-04-24
China prevents foreign media from covering Everest torch ascent: BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing abruptly shut the door Thursday on foreign media seeking to cover the Olympic torch's Mount Everest ascent, after journalists raised concerns over health and reporting curbs in restive Tibet. Beijing Olympic organisers, who had set a sudden payment deadline for air tickets to the...; Articles 2008-04-23
Obama turns to the BossLibraries court gaming fans: 1In response to a lawsuit filed by The Topeka Capital-Journal seeking access to the flight log for the Topeka Police Department helicopter, interim city attorney Braxton Copley said it would take him about two weeks to locate the requested records, review them and determine if they were public information. Which...; Articles 2008-04-19
2008 Ad: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [3] BEIJING -- The Olympic flame is on a whirlwind world tour, and the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics is on! The flame is taking two journeys this year--the traditional around-the-world relay plus a trek up the highest mountain on Earth. The Olympic torch left...; Articles 2008-04-14
Long Island Nonprofit Briefs: April 11, 2008: Dinner party nets $200,000 for NFP A recent fund-raiser benefiting the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America's Long Island chapter raised over $200,000 to benefit the not-for-profit. The funds included a $45,000 donation from law firm Wolf Popper. Michele Fried Raphael, a partner...; Articles 2008-04-11
On the screen: NEW FILMS FRIDAY BLINDSIGHT -- *** 1/2 -- An enthralling documentary about a 2004 Mount Everest climbing expedition -- by sight-impaired Tibetans. With subtitles, complete review on Page W4, running time: 108 minutes, PG (profanity, slurs, violence, brief drugs) CHICAGO 10 -- ** 1/2...; Articles 2008-04-11
China insists torch will go through Tibet: BEIJING (AFP) — China's top official in Tibet, rejecting a demand of activists around the world, has insisted that the Beijing Olympics torch relay will pass through the Himalayan region as planned. Zhang Qingli, the most senior Chinese Communist Party official in Tibet, told local leaders that Beijing...; Articles 2008-04-05
China launches Olympic torch relay: BEIJING (AFP) — China launched the Olympic torch relay here on Monday but tight security highlighted concerns that protests over Tibet, human rights and other issues may tarnish its journey around the world. President Hu Jintao officially set the flame off on its globe-trotting trip at a nationally...; Articles 2008-03-30
Cloud of uncertainty over Everest season: KATHMANDU (AFP) — Climbers hoping to scale Mount Everest are uncertain of being allowed near the peak this season, with the north side in Tibet closed and Nepal expected to also impose restrictions, mountaineers said Wednesday. Fears that the world's highest peak may be closed off altogether come...; Articles 2008-03-26

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