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Hermes Magazine
Columbia Business School Alumni Magazine
Spring 2003

In his first book, The Art of the Advantage — 36 Strategies to Secure the Competitive Edge (Texere, 2003), Kaihan Krippendorff ’99 comes up with a fresh method for devising a corporate game plan by drawing inspiration from a 2,000-year-old Chinese treatise.

As the manuscript evolved, Krippendorff received guidance from professors and classmates. Kathryn Harrigan, the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership, was the first to suggest that his independent-study project could form the basis of a book while “pointing out where his book fit on the academic landscape.” Others lending insight were Professor Robert Bontempo, Christina Zhu ’99 and Jeff Kvaal ’99.

After receiving his MBA, Krippendorff spent three years at McKinsey crafting corporate strategies before accepting a position — in part, to have more time to write — as executive director of Take Stock in Children. With offers for speaking engagements rolling in, he envisions a parallel career presenting seminars on his book at academic and financial institutions.