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Harvard health insurance during the summer. Those from outside of Harvard may contact their health plan for information about coverage. I already have travel plans booked. Can I miss the first few weeks of the start of the program in June... View Details

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Interviewing - Alumni

ever been divorced? What do you do for child care? Legal : Are you willing to relocate? Are you willing and able to put in the amount of overtime and/or travel the position requires? Response : If you're asking whether anything is going... View Details

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

noon: fall term projects December 6, 2024, 12:00 noon: spring term projects (if your expense items include travel during January) February 14, 2025, 12:00 noon: spring term projects (if your expense items are only February through April)... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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In Full Flower

Eliminating middlemen also increases vase life and leverages flowers’ ability to travel without water; many of the company’s bouquets are sent dry, in flat boxes that fit through a letter-box door slot. Gelbard notes that Valentine’s Day... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; florist; marketing; supply chain management; Personal Services

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Trademark Office, Dataquick, which is now owned by CoreLogic, and Data Axle USA. When measuring the number and quality of patented inventions by high-tech inventors, Wu and his colleagues found that for every 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of added View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Jan 2022
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Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

quiet walk in the woods, but it can also involve experiencing the essence of your immediate surroundings in other ways. For example, when Takeuchi travels outside Japan and the United States, he always makes a point of first visiting an... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

Keywords: by Isao Okada & Stephen A. Greyser; Sports

December 2015 (Revised September 2016)
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ANA (B)

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki

All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan

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David Velasquez

Traveling across the world, while sitting in a classroom and roaming the halls of Spangler. You learn about discounted cash flows, strategy, and leadership at HBS – while also enhancing your understanding of others' values and cultures.... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Crossover Into Business

athlete. How much does it cost to participate in the program? The Crossover Into Business program is currently free for professional athletes – we do not charge any application or program fees. I am a professional athlete. Will Harvard pay my View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of something, they have to View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

outside of Africa but focus their work on Africa, and/or travel to the region regularly for business but are not based in Africa are ineligible for the fellowship. Your total guaranteed annual compensation is less than $130,000 USD.... View Details

30 May 2018
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Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

retailer through a mobile device search, making a trip to the other store would involve time and travel costs many of them don’t want to bother with. But given that these consumers have evidence of the online price, the self-matching... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business... View Details

January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
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Carnival Corporation: Cruising Through COVID-19

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott

In March 2020, in response to the global pandemic, the cruise industry ceased operations. Carnival was the largest cruise line operator in the world, and CEO Arnold Donald and his management team worked to position the company to survive. They slashed operating... View Details

Keywords: Debt Issuance; Equity Issuances; Convertible Debt; Cruise Lines; Restructuring; Capital; Crisis Management; Cash Flow; Health Pandemics; Borrowing and Debt; Travel Industry; United States

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14 Mar 2018
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Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

Practical implications From an occupational perspective, the findings may prove valuable to business travelers—more than a third of whom believe work-related trips make them feel more stressed out than usual, according to the travel risk... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

one-stop on-online travel portal (similar to orbitz), which through the strength of its relationships with airline and hotel partners, will offer a wide range of travel-related services. Business Track, 2004 Extend Fertility Christy Jones... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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