Hunter harrison net worth
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But no interviews were like the ones he did with E. Hunter Harrison when he was at the helm of Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.
“He’s just a fascinating story,” Green says of the man who transformed four major railroads. “I’ve never met anyone like him.”
It’s a small wonder, then, that Green saw Harrison as an ideal subject for a biography. Green’s book, “Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison,” debuts in September.
The well-researched 289-page book, which was two years in the making, relies on interviews with 75 people, including Harrison’s family, colleagues, and competitors.
Green spent about 170 hours talking with Harrison, including attending the last “Hunter Camp” training session at CSX Transportation in December, days before Harrison died at age 73.
Green paints a picture of a colorful and comple
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Railroader: Celebrating Hunter Harrison’s Biography
Double H Farm hosted a book-signing party for the biography of show jumping owner, sponsor, and supporter Hunter Harrison on Jan. 14, 2019 in Wellington, FL. Olympic medalists such as Kent Farrington, Beezie Madden, Ian Millar, Rodrigo Pessoa, and McLain Ward, along with other show jumping stars including Canada’s own Tiffany Foster and Jonathon Millar, were in attendance.
Written by Canadian author Howard Green, “Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison,” describes Harrison’s rise from a railyard worker to a railroad CEO who dramatically affected two Canadian railroad companies, CN and CP, during his career. Harrison was the driving force behind CN and CP’s corporate sponsorship in the show jumping world, including at Calgary’s Spruce Meadows, which hosts the $3 million CP International each September during its ‘Masters’ tournament.
Through Double H Farm, Harrison, who died in December of 2017, also owned superstar horses like 2017 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup® Final winner HH Azu
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The larger-than-life figure of Hunter Harrison is impossible to avoid for anyone who follows the railroad industry. Nearly five years after his death, Harrison’s influence is as great as ever given the nearly universal adoption of precision scheduled railroading, an operating model and mindset that has generated tremendous value for railroad owners over the past two decades.
It is no exaggeration to compare Hunter Harrison to Steve Jobs in terms of the impact these men had in their respective industries. Both men were iconoclastic rebels who rejected conventional wisdom and were not afraid of ruffling feathers. They could both be insufferably rude and insensitive, yet they somehow attracted intensely loyal followers who believed in their mission. Both men lived for their work, resisted fully disclosing the extent of their illnesses, and died while still in leadership roles. Perhaps most significantly, both men have continued to exert a major influence on their industries many years after their deaths.
The dust jacket of Harrison’s biography, Railroader, fits
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