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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner has also upgraded and expanded Disney’s theme parks and hotels, and has added hundreds of retail Disney Stores. In 1995, Eisner acquired the ABC Television Network and ESPN, the cable sports network.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
at managing waiting, having long since concluded that guests to its theme parks spend far more time waiting than participating in various activities. Guests are willing to wait longer when they are diverted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Oded Navon
dad and I went on a ten-day trip to five theme parks in Europe when I was nine years old, just the two of us. It taught me that just like a roller-coaster, with the right people by my side, I can get through... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
who also had dreams of creating positive social impact through business. When my husband and I moved from New York City to Park City, Utah, we knew we wanted to start a family. I could have stayed with my consulting job, but it would have... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
student in pilot classes Reimagining Capitalism and Innovating for Sustainability, and I met classmates who also had dreams of creating positive social impact through business. When my husband and I moved from New York City to Park City,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
best model for humanity and nature living together” and revels in sharing the region with visitors. Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the continental United States, comprising 6 million acres, of which 45 percent... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
would have me as a member.”) I suspect that the magazine’s space constraints led to overconcentration of the theme of his forthcoming book and that these issues will not seem to be so problematic when addressed at greater length. James V.... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
Summing Up One significant theme in responses to this month's column suggested that there is a role for varying degrees of "buy-in" and "groupthink" in effective leadership. The message seems to be that leaders should... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
benefit a wide variety of businesses, however, Sviokla offered a word of caution. "If you dive into the marketspace," he told the OPM graduates, "you have to expect that things are going to move very quickly." Golf and tennis tournaments, excursions to Disney's View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
produced multiple blockbuster hits. ESPN, ABC, and other cable and broadcast properties were producing record profits. Attendance was up at Disney parks and cruise ships, while the Shanghai Disney Resort, the company’s third and largest... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start... View Details
- Web
Art Nature Business
with dialogues on nature, industry, science, ecology, and the environment, from the nineteenth century to the present. The eighteen works in this exhibition explore themes such as the Romantic landscape tradition and the sublime; the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
such as hotels, restaurants, and theme parks and (2) "individual shopper targeted" offers, whereby each shopper regularly receives an extensive set of tailor-made coupons predominantly paid for by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured around the main View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
entrepreneurs, many of them expatriate Americans, helped ensure that formally protected areas remained sustainable parks and reserves by providing revenues, conservation education to tourists, and community development and jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne