Hotel Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

something around that. And so that evening, we cornered Tom Eisenmann at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto and literally sketched out—about the most cliche thing you can do—sketched out on a napkin how Cloudflare would work. And said will... View Details

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping change across an View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

hotels and apartment buildings split the city’s skyline. “You will see visible, visible change,” he says. “Fifteen years from now, this is where you take that one shot of Colombo.” As a teenager growing up in Kandy, Sri Lanka’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy. Whether you work in hedge funds, private equity, or are aspiring to be part of one, you’ll gain invaluable insights into understanding... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

loss struggling to keep up. Shari Eberts (MBA 1995) is helping by urging industry players to provide free automatic captions on their platforms. In April she launched a petition to that end with some 50,000 signatures to date; in... View Details

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

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