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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Antarctic Adventure
Photo OP: The penguins didn’t seem to mind being the center of attention when 21 HBS alumni and friends ventured ashore during a ten-day trip to Antarctica in early December. The School’s Alumni Travel Program heads to Tanzania and Rwanda... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
both the beauty and the savagery that comes with that.” For Kent, travel is another, essential way to connect to the world. “If you don’t travel and you don’t look for yourself, and learn for yourself, and... View Details
Charles Ringling
Charles Ringling organized his siblings to form what would eventually become “the Greatest Show on Earth.” When the siblings began performing, they used only their personal talents, but under Charles’ leadership, the show grew into a large View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 May 2013
- News
Terry Kramer, MBA 1986 & Suzan Kramer
leaders to attend Executive Education programs and rising seniors to travel to HBS for the Summer Venture in Management Program. Terry Kramer currently serves as an HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence. View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
use what you learned at HBS in your role at Mass. General? “Residency is all about teamwork. I find that the things I learned from the many team-based experiences we had at HBS—from ‘climbing’ Everest to traveling for FIELD 2 to building... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals
relax and invest in friends and family? He set off on a project he called “Beyond the Headlines,” during which he picked places on the State Department’s “do not travel” list to couch-surf and see if maybe the world wasn’t as bad as what you read online. While View Details
- Web
IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog
travel to Silicon Valley to present our findings to executives from these companies and meet with AI thought leaders in the region. Past guests include: Jay Puri (COO, NVIDIA) Tekedra Mawakana (CEO, Waymo) Dmitry Shevelenko (CBO,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
GLOBAL NETWORKS Whether in Boston or Beijing, HBS Career & Professional Development office hears the same question from alumni: “What’s next for me?” CPD staff have been traveling the world to show alumni the career resources available to... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Cathy Hutchinson
Professional Development office – working with students, alumni and hiring organizations. My team manages our external marketing & communications to recruiters; as well as promotes all of our great resources to alumni. In addition, I get to View Details
- Portrait Project
Eric Adamson
Homo Sapiens, the Anthropocene, Humanity: there is darkness within us. In my comfortable Californian childhood, I learned about distant injustices and atrocities. It felt unfair that I would grow up so softly in such a harsh world. So, after university, I dove in: I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
The Bookshelf Travel maven Zhang Mei (MBA 1996), founder of WildChina, on her new travelogue (and recipe collection) and two other literary escapes for the armchair adventurer NEW Travels Through Dali with a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
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
- Portrait Project
Christine Cuoco
I remember sitting in my grandmother's Brooklyn kitchen as a kid while she prepared little-meatball soup and stuffed artichokes and told me stories of her childhood in Agropoli, Italy. My grandmother's fondness for her homeland inspired me to View Details
- March 2025
- Supplement
Fostering Community at Airbnb (B)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Heather Whiteman and Sarah Mehta
This case provides updates to “Fostering Community at Airbnb (A),” case no. 425-045. View Details
- March 2025
- Case
Fostering Community at Airbnb (A)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Heather Whiteman and Sarah Mehta
Set in November 2020, this case explores Airbnb’s efforts to foster a culture of belonging, particularly given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company’s workforce. It details how Airbnb used employee surveys and organizational network analysis (ONA)—a... View Details
- June 2010
- Case
Playa Dorada Tennis Club: Expansion Strategy
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Brent Kazan
Playa Dorada Beach & Resort in Boca Raton, Florida, faces a growing seasonal demand for tennis services. The number of guests is expected to double in the next few years, and while the tennis facilities are a popular and well-promoted amenity at the resort, court space... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Planning; Price; Expansion; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Florida
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr., and Brent Kazan. "Playa Dorada Tennis Club: Expansion Strategy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-221, June 2010.
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
Brian Graden (MBA ’89) is president of MTV Networks and of Logo, the new gay-oriented cable channel launched in June. Logo features mostly movies but also documentaries, sports, travel shows, original sitcoms, concerts, and more. “When... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, global head of civic partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Sharing Economy; Amsterdam; Airbnb; Molly Turner; Regulation; Homesharing; Tourism; Business And Government; Public-private Partnership; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Government Administration; Public Sector; City; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Netherlands; Europe
Weiss, Mitchell, Emer Moloney, and Vincent Dessain. "Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-013, October 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and Microsoft. But his penchant for View Details