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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
power. For example, movie studios are probably more confident that a Tom Cruise movie will emerge as the winner of a competitive July 4 opening weekend than a movie with an unknown actor, and will adjust their release strategy...
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- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price...
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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
current initiatives would be sufficient to maintain RCL's position at the cutting edge of cruise industry best practice and whether RCL could and should differentiate itself in marketing from its competitors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
less than 10,000 pounds, VLJs typically have a range of about 1,200 nautical miles before refueling, accommodate three or four passengers, cruise at about the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and have the capacity to land on...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
it’s the birthplace and the namesake of those concrete barriers that line America’s highways, the home of the country’s busiest toll road, and a place where summer nights seem custom-made for cruising to the Shore, or nowhere special,...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
work. Trips to tropical places are opportunities to secure new hotel customers. Summer beach time has been replaced with road trips to the Hamptons and Nantucket. I think the only safe place for a true vacation now is an iceberg cruise in...
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Celebrating our Student Fathers - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
He introduced me to his editors and mentors and reintroduced me to subject-verb agreement. And I was going to repay all of this by, in his words, “going to the dark side?” You know, that two-year sojourn for bankers and consultants View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
school or airplane or cruise ship is “healthy.” Based on research in Healthy Buildings (my recent book with Professor Joseph Allen of the Harvard School of Public Health), we expect landlords, cruise...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Harvard Business School, "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century." The Summit included many industries and sectors that do not often appear together, and discussions emphasized the perspective of...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
often, those who have experienced vast success in the public realm look back and regret not spending more time with family and friends. They wish they’d actually gone on that cruise of the Greek islands, or taken more vacations in...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
rental. Things are looking up: the car's a hot red convertible, and it's gorgeous out. I cruise through the Sumner Tunnel left hand on the wheel, right hand on my 166 MHz laptop, which I wouldn't have minded playing with on the plane,...
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