Travel - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

for the more socially inclined – dinner with friends, parties, weekend travel trips, group study sessions – there is also a range of introvert-friendly options on campus. Some of my favorites include: De-stress Café: A quiet room with... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

Salomon Smith Barney, the Travelers Group, and Citigroup, which he helped build into the world’s largest financial services company through tight management and astute mergers. Both Dimon’s father and grandfather worked as stockbrokers,... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

we need far fewer face-to-face meetings than we thought. I think the productivity benefits could be quite big. The companies that will lose: travel businesses, such as airlines and hotels. We may discover we just don’t need to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

unexpected places. Tom and I met while we were traveling in Europe over the summer. After spending an unbelievable week together, he headed to Madrid to finish his master’s and I moved to Boston to start HBS. I wasn’t sure if I would ever... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

further acquisitions to take PCL to the next level! With the ever-changing industry that we operate in, I look forward to the new challenges along this journey.” Can you tell us about MAYU and what motivated you and your wife to launch it? “My wife, Mayura, and I are... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

time between Brookline, Massachusetts, and a “base of operations” in Paris that makes it easier for Gadiesh to travel for work. After leaving Bain in 1984, Byford put his entrepreneurial talents to work, launching two electronics... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

Allard: a three-year ascent to $240 million in revenues. Photo Courtesy Marquis Jet Marquis Jet may be flying high today, but just three years ago it was far from clear that the New York–based company’s innovative approach to private-jet View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

Profile

Drew Keller

took off! What is your favorite childhood memory? Thankfully I have a lot to choose from. But I think my all-time favorite memory is a day I spent with my parents and sister on Lake Powell in Utah, in the middle of a trip we took View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

experience called “Learn About Space with an Astronomer,” a virtual tour hosted by a science expert. Since the pandemic curtailed travel, Airbnb had pioneered a concept called Online Experiences to let would-be travelers experience some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

change mitigation (as travel is diminished and virtual work infrastructures expand), risk assessment and emergency responses in hazardous environments, and large-scale biosafety, allowing our economic infrastructure to grow stronger as it... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

Unilever, for the first time in my life I felt the freedom to put my own personal development ahead of my academic and career aspirations. What did I eventually decide to do? I became a digital nomad. I took the opportunity to travel to... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

maintenance technicians in the next two years, primarily from communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental issues.[81] In a similar vein, the company Volta has created an infrastructure planning software called PredictEV to help governments... View Details

Profile

Yung Winata

What’s the best thing about your home town? This is always such a tricky question for me. I have moved around so much in my life that I don’t really have a “home-town”. On the upside, moving has been a gift of a lifetime. It has allowed me to see new places, make new... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

the decision when you know where you both got in. How has your time at HBS changed your relationship? Our time at HBS has brought us closer together. We met while working after college, so we did not know each other as students. Having the opportunity to learn, grow,... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

“I think the digital nomads are probably more likely to be Millennials, early career workers who want to travel the world and work, or empty nesters,” Choudhury says. Several countries, including Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Norway,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

are paid very generously. I probably should have put mine towards tuition, but I decided to travel over winter break and chose to put much of it toward travel. Now for some tough love. Harvard’s Financial Aid model is need-based and... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

recruitment and job seeking opportunities for professionals in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. + – Hospitality Hospitality - General SmartBriefs – Travel Newsletter digest of hospitality industry headlines produced in... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

off to meet with older client executives, Marvin insisted that we all wear hats during our travels to and from the firm. The only non-American among us was a Brit." Daniel made his mark as part of the team that advised Mobil Oil. That... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

October 2014 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Caesars Entertainment

By: Janice H. Hammond and Aldo Sesia

This case describes the introduction of a regression analysis model for forecasting guest arrivals to Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company will use the forecast to staff the front desk in the hotel. The staff is unionized and the company has little... View Details