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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
exchange of ideas about the evolution of the European Union." Held at the Estrel Residence and Congress Hotel -- Germany's largest hotel -- the conference will also feature social events and tours, as well... View Details
- Profile
Rohan Gopaldas
your education." As a way to integrate hospitality and education — and on the advice of his grandmother, who suggested that Rohan's gregarious personality would make him a "good diplomat or hotel manager" — Rohan attended... View Details
- Profile
David Kang
David Kang's passion for travel has taken him all over the world: London, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, Singapore, Russia and Japan. It also led him to a school where his global interests would continue to expand: HBS. "My three years with McKinsey gave me a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details
- 7 PM – 9 PM PST, 26 Feb 2015
HBS San Francisco Young Alumni Reception
HBS alumni MBA 2010-2014 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in San Francisco. View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
mass during his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and executive, and he wanted to put it to work on COVID-19 research. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
Research says 85 percent of people will make a purchase after reading online reviews about a product or service. This has had huge implications for the hotel industry and helps explain why TripAdvisor, a massive repository of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building
approximately 40% of global CO2 emissions. With renewed commitments to green building coming from the conclusion of COP27, we feature two interviews from the CEM collection with business leaders in the real estate and hotel industries.... View Details
Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, Andrew Tisch never had to seek out part-time jobs. Employment opportunities were everywhere in the family business, a chain of hotels in New Jersey, Florida, and New York City. “I started before I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
and most people weren’t prepared for a recession. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago
Entrepreneurship is the focus for the 1998 Global Alumni Conference, "2000+: Global Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership," scheduled for June 16-19 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. Over one thousand alumni and guests are expected at... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
The first conference for HBS African-American alumni to be held outside Boston drew well over a hundred participants to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco over Columbus Day weekend. A committee led by Steven R. Wilkinson (MBA '82)... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major multinationals to... View Details
- 7 PM – 9 PM PST, 11 Feb 2015
HBS Los Angeles Young Alumni Reception
HBS alumni MBA 2005-2014 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in Los Angeles. View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt, Doubletree, and more and so we had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
entertaining," Walker said. Priceline.com, a consumer-to-business Web site launched in 1998, sells groceries using the same "name your price" scheme it uses to sell surplus airline tickets and hotel rooms to travelers. Online shoppers are... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous addresses, she learned to take... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Marlene Krauss
Chelsea Hotel in New York. Some things I did early (I started HBS in 1965 at age 20), some I did late (I started medical school at age 30 and had twins at age 53), and some things I missed out on because I had no talent (lead singer in a... View Details