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How MBAs can help snowmobilers avoid avalanches
Mar 25, 2013
By David Dunne, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. On the afternoon of March 6, 2012, five men drove their snowmobiles to Grizzly Lake, in the Powder Mountain area south of Whistler, B.C. The weather was clear, fresh and calm, and the snow-covered mountains spread invitingly before them. Though there had been some avalanches in the area recently, the conditions looked ideal. In a practice known as high-marking, two of more »More...