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March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
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Will RacingThePlanet Ltd. Reach the Finish Line?

Mary Gadams, founder and CEO of RacingThePlanet is facing one of the many logistical crises that her young Hong Kong-based venture faces as it stages its popular 4Deserts(tm) adventure marathon series in Atacama Chile, Gobi Desert Mongolia, Sahara Desert Egypt, and... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Business or Company Management; Logistics; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Hong Kong; Egypt; Mongolia; Chile; Antarctica

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07 Apr 2021
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Road Work

Above: Friedman at Union Glacier, Antarctica Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. While Ken Friedman (MBA 1983) was at HBS, he and a group of about a dozen friends would... View Details

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

his photo to each summit. Subsequent climbs were Mt. Aconcagua, in South America (2011); Mt. Everest, in Asia (2011); Mt. Elbrus, in Europe (2012); Carstensz Pyramid, in Indonesia (2012); Mt. Vinson, in Antarctica (2012); and Mt.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details

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01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

1987 the network launched MTV Europe and began to set up other international satellites. Currently, the music channel reaches more than 294 million households on every continent except Antarctica - including unexpected places such as... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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