Hotels - Publications - Faculty & Research

18–20 May 2018
Reunions

MBA 2017 ONE-YEAR REUNION

MBA 2017 ONE-YEAR REUNION MAY 18-19, 2018 REGISTER TODAY Agenda Attendee List Friday, May 18 Dress code is cocktail attire. 8:00-10:00 p.m.: Welcome Reception, Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel Three Case Day is performing!! Saturday, May 19... View Details

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2017
News

Constant Inspiration

2017. Originally from Minnesota, Guidera is part owner of Ski Portillo, a resort in the Andes, and Tierra Hotels, a trio of adventure spa hotels across Chile. Before moving to Chile, she worked for Walt Disney Consumer Products in Los... View Details

11 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

large global transformations and M&A integrations. In any free moments I have, I write a fitness and wellness blog called Grit by Brit. I also teach group fitness classes at the W Hotels and 24 Hour Fitness." How is each role similar,... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2010
News

Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars

by Margie Kelley GARDNER PARTY: Booth Gardner, center, celebrates at HBO’s Oscar Documentary Nominees party at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills his with daughter Gail Gant (left), President of HBO Documentary and Family Sheila Nevins,... View Details

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

customers." He cites the example of a major hotel chain that asks guests to complete a multiple-question satisfaction survey via their room's TV set during their stay. When one guest answered "extremely dissatisfied" to all... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

Profile

Matthew Boys

Matt went hands-on in Chongqing, China, where his FIELD 2 team reviewed plans for a hotel that wanted to create the right kind of experience for a growing market of professionals. “The local market already had plenty of dance clubs and... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

from falling dramatically—showing the global impact on local real estate. What’s next in real estate? “The demand for all property types is being profoundly impacted by technology in ways we are only beginning to understand. Airbnb models will mean we need fewer View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

Over three hundred enthusiastic alumni and guests gathered at New York City's Plaza Hotel in February for the first annual HBS Club of Greater New York Entrepreneurs' Exhibition and Conference. Along with exhibits from promising... View Details

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

this lies within Tata Steel itself, as in its acquisition in Singapore. And the rest lies in the broader ambit of the Tata group through its acquisitions of Daewoo's truck assets in South Korea, Tetley Tea in the U.K. and ritzy hotel... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

that she cofounded and modeled on the US company Hotel Tonight. Blink offers a mobile application that provides same-day booking of boutique hotels across Europe, taking advantage of market price... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

18 May 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Hilton

OrganizationStephanie Atiase, Senior Director of Corporate Strategy, Hilton Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Hilton is the leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

01 Sep 2004
News

Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

01 Mar 2014
News

In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)

Video Embed Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010) grew up in kitchens, first at the elbow of his mother ("a great cook, a schoolteacher, always happy to show me some stuff") and then, in high school and college, as a line cook in restaurants all over New England. A graduate of... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; 80 Thoreau; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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... View Details

20 Nov 2014
Blog Post

An update from the Hospitality Club

notable restaurants such as Per Se, Eleven Madison Park, Jean-Georges, Daniel, Del Posto etc.). We did hotel tours at three of NYC’s top properties - W Downtown, the Standard High Line and Dream Downtown. We also met with the Tao Group’s... View Details

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811015-PDF-ENG Barceló View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Mid-summer Update

hinge on the feedback from customers. We needed high quality results and enough of them to make the data statistically significant. Back at the hotel that night, I was finally able to take a first look at the results. Some strong trends... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

Business School Case 213-050 Hotel Ivory Cheick Sanankoua is an MBA student who believes that he has found the perfect investment property, a small, independently owned hotel on the Ivory Coast. However, he... View Details