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Ari Medoff
business's founder, helping him manage transactions and operations for more than forty hotels in twenty-three states. Pursuing distinct careers "Many people come to the HBS/HKS joint degree program to find the intersection among... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
50 to 60 percent are regulars. The rest change weekly. "It's like running a hotel with quirky guests who have a variety of weird demands," she notes with a wry smile. Raised in Milwaukee, where her father worked at the Miller brewery,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
customer service are important. We track closely the voice of the customer. Both hotels and quick service restaurants are also primarily people businesses where having high-performing teams that are engaged and motivated at the store... View Details
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Century” events in Mumbai, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai was the setting on January 5 for an evening reception, enabling 375 alumni... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged on the Grand Ballroom at the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://hbr.org/product/groupon-for-local-businesses/an/514047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-071 Managing Online Reviews on TripAdvisor In 2013, TripAdvisor was the most visited online travel site in the world. It hosted a massive repository of information on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
as the recent renovation of historic public spaces at The Plaza hotel or the proposed redevelopment of the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. “The Conservancy sees itself as a voice of reason,” he notes. “We’re not anti-development,... 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
subsidiary to oversee development, with former Massport CEO Thomas Glynn serving as CEO and Dean Nohria as chair of the governing board. Initial plans for the first phase of development include a 14-acre complex of research-focused companies, green space, residences,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
food manufacturers, and the launch of an elBulli hotel and a chain of reasonably priced restaurants called Fast Good. But what is the balance between leveraging the Adrià/elBulli brand and breaking its core meaning? In a classroom... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next level of business and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
to offer benefits at no cost, it actually raises prices for buyers” If an intermediary like Expedia charges the same price as an airline, for example, then many consumers will choose to use the intermediary. After all, Expedia offers View Details