The Culture of Success: an extreme outdoorsman

Bob Greenhill, Morgan Stanley's first Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, was a Yale graduate and Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School, and an extreme outdoorsman with a slight, muscular build, a big head of curly hair, and a wicked grin. He was famous for his endurance and his adventures. In the 1970s, he and his wife, Gayle, and their three children went to the Arctic with Jack Wadsworth, a handsome Kentuckian who worked at First Boston, and Wadsworth's family. They were flown in by seaplane and dropped off above the Arctic Circle to begin a month long canoe trip on the Back River --- as in "watch your back," one of Greenhill's friends says --- to the pickup point. They left their maps behind and guided themselves using the journals of earlier explorers. Among the outcomes of the trip was that Greenhill persuaded Wadsworth to come to work at Morgan Stanley.