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- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
to hear from the business, political and community leaders from Hong Kong and beyond,” says Alison Chan (MBA 2002), the Conference Chair and club president. "This is the event that our alumni look forward to attending every year.” Held at the Conrad View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
women in corporate Asia were some of the choices for the afternoon's panels, which also included sessions on intellectual property, direct investment in Asia, and entertainment and media in Asia. The final event was the Shanghai Ball, an extravaganza held at the Copley...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
With travel restrictions and physical distancing recommendations in place, organizations planning to hire full-time employees or interns in the coming year are reviewing their recruiting processes and seeking to innovate. For some, recruiting events once held in large...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
and development of its employees. Historically, this training had taken place at hotels and conference centers not affiliated with Deloitte. The idea for the construction of a special-purpose, Deloitte-owned learning facility had been...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
race? Finley: It's on a lot of bucket lists. On Saturday morning, you wake up and you can just feel it. And every hotel for 50 miles around the city is packed with people that have come in to be at the Kentucky Derby. So you'll see all...
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horse racing
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
locations (even if on a sofa) going for as little as $25 per night. Nightly rentals are beginning to exceed the volumes of the largest hotel chains. What happens if the chains, with much higher marginal costs, are forced to cut back on...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a small entrepreneurial venture in Dallas, where I had hands-on experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel...
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- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
https://hbr.org/product/venture-capital-at-the-harvard-management-company-in-historical-perspective/815047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-021 McKinsey & Co.-Protecting Its Reputation (A) On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey...
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Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
the magic of staying at a fancy hotel,” Sapone said. “We are giving hotel service at home for a very accessible price. It is basically Clay Christensen’s disruption theory in practice.” Alfred offers an ever-expanding...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
should ever walk into an office and have the door closed or feel she has to show up alone to a hotel room?” Companies should also provide employees with extensive training about what constitutes sexual harassment—and they need to go...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
813-019 The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other in Milan, Italy. Having developed an extensive customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
2008 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, when we had 30 employees in the two hotels that were targeted. Looking back, it’s those trials by fire that reinforce the importance of always, always relying on the expertise of one’s team.” Downtime: “I...
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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
in conflict. Yangon was the only large city and was like a time capsule from the past. When we got to the hotel in Yangon, for the first breakfast, my wife and I got into a conversation with the waiter, a very bright, animated young man....
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
deconstructs music hits. (The Fleetwood Mac one was so inspired.)” —Roben Farzad (MBA 2005), host of Full Disclosure on NPR member station VPM and author of Hotel Scarface (2017) MUST LISTEN Revisionist History “If you aren’t listening to...
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- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Hotels: Brand Differentiation through Customer Relationship Management Harvard Business School Case 809-029 This case analyzes the Hilton Hotels Corporation's CRM strategy at a key juncture in its history, immediately after the firm has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or computers, for instance). In...
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by Robert Simons
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
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...
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