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  • 28 Jul 2019
  • News

6 Vacation Habits That Defend From Future Burnouts

  • March 2017 (Revised August 2021)
  • Teaching Note

HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry

By: Rory McDonald and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 615-036. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Acquisitions; Operations Management
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  • May 2016 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Hillside Beach Club: Delivering the Ultimate Family Vacation in the Mediterranean

By: Rajiv Lal and Gamze Yucaoglu
In 2015, Edip Ilkbahar, HBC’s founder and CEO, was looking over the plans for a new branch in Cyprus. Since the inception of the company by the Alarko Group of companies in 1994, Ilkbahar’s company had enjoyed high occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high... View Details
Keywords: Customer Experience; Customer Service; Hotel Industry; Emerging Market; Customer Focus; Leading Growth; Feedback Culture; Employee Empowerment; Employee Engagement; Employee Training; Staffing; Operations Management; Quality Management; Service Management; Service Quality; Continuous Improvement; Hillside; HBC; Turkey; Vacation; Customer Relationship Management; Quality; Employee Relationship Management; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Customer Satisfaction; Selection and Staffing; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Turkey
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  • December 2014 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry

By: Rory McDonald, Feng Zhu and Cheng Gao
In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace—a global online platform that links customers seeking vacation-home rentals to the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Innovation; Technology; Acquisitions; Operations Management; Digital Platforms; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Disruption; Accommodations Industry
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  • 27 Jun 2012
  • News

Real Vacations Are Good for You: Take Them and Turn Off

  • 21 Aug 2012
  • News

We dare you to take a real vacation

  • 18 Jun 2013
  • News

3 Ways to Really Put the "Vacate" into Vacation

  • 29 Jul 2022
  • News

Harvard professor: How to get your team to take vacations and return ‘more refreshed, more creative, more energized’

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • News

The Secret Economic And Career Benefits Of Taking Vacation

  • 25 May 2023
  • News

‘Work From Anywhere’ Weeks Are a Vacation From Return-to-Office Push

  • 22 Jul 2024
  • News

America's Vacation Culture Is Dying. Here's How to Revive It.

  • 14 Feb 2023
  • News

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How Distance from Hometown and Vacation Flexibility Affect Job Performance

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Ohchan Kwon
Using a natural experiment and field interviews, this paper studies how social attachment to place imposes psychic costs on workers who experience geographic mobility. This is especially salient when workers are assigned to locations far from their hometown, which may... View Details
Keywords: Distance From Hometown; Social Attachment To Place; Psychic Costs; Worker Performance; Natural Experiment; Geographic Location; Familiarity; Employees; Performance; India
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  • August 31, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: How to Pick the Right Sort of Vacation for You

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • July 27, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: How to Have Your Most Fulfilling Vacation Ever

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • 13 Mar 2021
  • News

A three-week trip to New Orleans was a time for vocation and vacation

  • 03 Nov 2022
  • News

To Avoid a ‘Backlog of Burnout,' Make Taking Vacation a Habit Throughout Your Career, Experts Say

  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.: Safety, Environment and Health

By: John A. Quelch
In January 2014, Gary Bald, senior vice president of Safety, Environment and Health at Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (RCL), prepared for a review meeting with the company's chief executive, Adam Goldstein, and chairman, Richard Fain. Prior to joining RCL in 2006, Bald... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Public Health; Cruising; Cruise Lines; Royal Caribbean; Safety; Security; Biodefense; Epidemic; Norovirus; Fire Safety; Crew; Environmental Protection; Innovation; Ship Design; Vacation; Recreation
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

For the most part, social media is what you make it. You choose whom to keep tabs on, who can follow you back, what you “like,” and which snippets of your life you reveal. But what if those carefully curated depictions are suddenly on the table at your next quarterly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka