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- 22 Mar 2008
- News
Time travellers
- 1983
- Article
Equilibrium Store Locations When Consumers Minimize Travel Time Plus Waiting Time
By: Elon Kohlberg
Kohlberg, Elon. "Equilibrium Store Locations When Consumers Minimize Travel Time Plus Waiting Time." No. 3. Economics Letters 11, no. 3 (1983): 211–216.
- November 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand
By: Jill Avery and Joseph B. Fuller
Away, a direct-to-consumer, digital native e-commerce seller of travel luggage, is debating how to invest its latest round of venture funding. How quickly could and should Away scale and what were the most promising growth trajectories to maximize its potential? Three... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; DTC; Brand Extension; Lifestyle Brand; Customer Segmentation; Retailing; Scaling And Growth; Startup; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Consumer Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; E-commerce; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; United States; North America
Avery, Jill, and Joseph B. Fuller. "Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand." Harvard Business School Case 520-051, November 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
break it into categories. For enjoying animals and wildlife, I’d say the Galapagos Islands or Tanzania. For culture, I’d say Thailand or Morocco. For a great beach, Bora Bora in the South Pacific offers unlimited activities. How did your View Details
- May 2023
- Teaching Note
Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Jill Avery
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 520-051. Away, a direct-to-consumer, digital native e-commerce seller of travel luggage, is debating how to invest its latest round of venture funding. How quickly could and should Away scale and what were the most promising growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- News
Travel Podcasts for Summer Trips
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
friends. And he was at the first meeting and so forth. But my mother and I had a really good time and we took her all over the place, took her to our houses in Nantucket and in Florida. And, and she had a couple great grandchildren, which... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
destinations worldwide. AbilityTrip's mobile application supports the traveler on-site, featuring comprehensive information on five key destinations. Currently the director of ingredients procurement for Kraft Foods, Brehm devotes much of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
about 50) receives an international travel allowance to encourage personal exploration beyond the dedicated trips taken to Tea destinations. “I know that when I travel, and especially when I take my family traveling, it’s a transformative... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place." And they reconnected with, as one... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
include Las Vegas, India, New York City, Israel, and Seattle, the treks provide a means for students to meet leaders in their field of interest and travel abroad to experience an increasingly global business world. About half of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- November 2020
- Case
Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
This case is an epilogue to “Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa” (2-321-020), which ends with the emergence of the pandemic in March 2020. The final discussion area for that case can be “What should Wilderness Safari CEO Keith... View Details
Keywords: Communities; COVID-19; Ecotourism; Travel; Travel Industry; Conservation Planning; Reopening; Investor Relations; Project Strategy; Governance; Decision Making; Cash; Health Pandemics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Tourism Industry; Africa
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 321-077, November 2020.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
client. Buell accesses a second online interface during class with images, slides, and an additional 3 videos, segueing seamlessly between Lima, the Bay Area, and Allston. “We travel with the protagonists, witnessing actual events... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also leads to answers to the question... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman