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February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price

Priceline.com is a new concept shifting the setting of price from sellers to buyers. The company aspires to use its patented process of advertising units of demand at named prices to suppliers in many categories. This case focuses on its initial use in the airline... View Details

Keywords: Price; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Emerging Markets; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

Kaufman, Director of Talent Acquisition, EF Education First Describe your organization in three to five sentences. EF Education First is the world’s largest international travel and education company – with 41,000 members working from 500... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Sunny Side

When Miami-based venture capital firm ANIMO Ventures launched in 2018, cofounder Nico Berardi (MBA 2018) traveled weekly. “It was 80 percent San Francisco, maybe 20 percent New York,” he recalls. But the Argentine-born Berardi loved the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

Kayode Ogunro

employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects than I would face with a typical investment firm. My HBS... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

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Research Links - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

traveled to Chicago's Lakeside Press Galleries. At a time when photography had become the medium of choice for most print advertising, artists were pursuing commercial photography as both an artistic endeavor and a profession and... View Details

07 Dec 2022
News

Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up

Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in... View Details

24 Feb 2016
News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

Logan Airport. The system would be comprised of two-passenger carts that travelers could call up and ride the same way they would a PRT. But vitally, it wouldn’t require any new tracks or guideways — something Alden says would have been a... View Details

15 May 2015
Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

a liberating and life-altering opportunity. Before HBS, I spent a year traveling abroad on a fellowship from Vanderbilt University, studying national identity formation, comparative citizenship issues, and some of the challenges facing... View Details

11 Dec 2014
News

Extending a culture of equal treatment to all women

Traveling throughout the globe, J.P. Morgan Asset Management CEO Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is committed to making sure women are treated as equal partners. (Published December 2014) View Details

Portrait Project

Inigo Amoribieta

I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life, but not by the roads they have... View Details

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4.0 General Policies | MBA

4.0 General Policies Student Handbook 4.1 Student Travel 4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures 4.3 Missing Persons 4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy 4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities 4.6 HBS Campus... View Details

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Additional Harvard Funding | MBA

Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships. For further information, visit the Traveling Fellowships section of the Committee on General Scholarships website. (Please note: Traveling Fellowships... View Details

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

Madam C. J. Walker

known, not only for its hair care products, but also for its extensive agent system, in which well-trained black women traveled throughout black neighborhoods across the United States, promoting the products. Madame Walker was widely... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Donald C. Burr

Burr created an airline based on low cost travel and a flat organizational structure, setting People Express apart from other airlines. By giving employees stock in the company, Burr was able to dramatically impact productivity. People... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Course Number 6060 Professor Tarun Khanna Senior Lecturer Andy Zelleke January; J; 3.0 credits Fall On-Campus Course Sessions: (5 sessions) Thursdays 3:10 – 5:10 pm: 9/18, 10/16, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4 View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

July 2014 (Revised November 2015)
Case

American Airlines in 2011

By: Willy Shih

The American Airlines in 2011 case was developed to provide a setting for the comparative analysis of two very different business models in the U.S. domestic airline industry—the network carrier and the low cost carrier (LCC). These models offer very different value... View Details

Keywords: American Airlines; Network Carrier; Low-cost Carrier; LCC; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Disruption; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; United States