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- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
algorithm,” Zhang says. “It provides flexibility. There is opportunity for a (Black) host to improve revenue, but only if you use it.” It’s unclear why fewer Black hosts use the tool. Asian and Latino hosts also appear to use the algorithm at a lower rate than white... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us because they are the quintessential... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
US economy. A hands-on leader who has met with business owners in 36 states in the two years since President Barack Obama appointed her to head the US Small Business Administration (SBA), Mills has had many poignant encounters with people she calls "the builders of the... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Influence: High 90 1990 s USSR dismantled; ethnic conflicts exposed Gulf War: real-time TV coverage Asian financial crisis NAFTA enacted European Union forms Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
time, and the timeline for decisions. Employees understand that events are continually unfolding and will accept changes if the evidence and reasoning are clear. Boilerplate rhetoric will likely disengage them. INSEAD’s Jennifer Petriglieri studied BP’s handling of its... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early... View Details
Fred M. Nelson
Nelson presided over Texas Gulf Sulphur’s most dramatic period of expansion and profitability. He initiated international expansion and began to diversify the company’s operations. Under his leadership, Texas View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
Developer David Lucas (MBA '71) has won a reputation as a generous philanthropist. Along with homeowners, developers in Florida’s Gulf Coast real-estate market have been hit hard by the recession. David Lucas (MBA ’71) has been riding out... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr.
During his tenure, Luckenbach reorganized the company by withdrawing ships from the unprofitable intercoastal trade and re-deploying them on the international charter market. At the same time, he broadened the shore side activities of the firm. The Luckenbach Steamship... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
William L. Mellon
Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, was the largest in the world.... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 14 Dec 2020
Geographic Regions Webinar Series: Alumni Perspectives from Alumni Perspectives from GCC
Join the HBS Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Research Center as they moderate a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experiences and the incredible HBS network in the Gulf Coast countries. View Details
Charles G. Bluhdorn
From 1960 to 1965, Gulf and Western’s growth was largely through expansion of its auto parts business. In 1965, Bluhdorn began to move toward diversification. He acquired such companies as New Jersey Zinc Company, Paramount Pictures, the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 06 Jul 2021
Geographic Regions Series: Alumni Perspectives from GCC
Join the HBS Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Research Center as they moderate a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experiences and the incredible HBS network in the Gulf countries. View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
Geographic Regions Series: Alumni Perspectives from KSA
Join the HBS Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Research Center as they moderate a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experiences and the incredible HBS network in the Gulf countries. View Details
Bernard M. Baruch
Though Baruch was a very successful financier, he is best known for his four decades of service as an advisor to US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt. He helped to finance some of the leading industrial firms of his time including Texas View Details
Keywords: Finance
James R. Kuse
Mortgaging his home in 1984, Kuse, along with a few other executives from Georgia Pacific, financed a leveraged buy-out to create Georgia Gulf Corporation, a major producer of specialty chemical products. Under his leadership, Kuse not... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
advice on how to own and run a business, find the right deal, negotiate, determine when to get in and get out, and much more. Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States by Aamir A. Rehman (MBA ’04) (McGraw-Hill)... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
environment, the 1990s found the U.S. Army struggling with an "identity crisis," both for individual soldiers and for the very soul of the institution itself. What was the Army all about? Fighting wars or keeping peace? With the two View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
was David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA 2000), whose picture appeared on television sets and in newspapers around the world. According to the New York Daily News (March 22, 2003), Gurfein wanted the gesture to reassure apprehensive Iraqis that this time, America was going to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
“vindictive” but to settle on compensation for top executives at bailed-out companies that would be competitive without promoting excessive risk-taking. (Feinberg’s definition of “excessive”: “I know it when I see it.”) He noted that 85 percent of the people whose... View Details