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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Davis, Aaron Vomberg, Sarah Ruehlow Business Track Runner-Up Getaway designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, from $99. 2016 Social Enterprise Track UrSure...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
that it is available for rent on eBay. Klarman's legendary success as both an investor and a philanthropist belies another aspect of his personality: he enjoys living his life out of the spotlight. At Baupost's Boston headquarters,...
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- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with...
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Drew Keller
to rent kayaks for the day, but after seeing how much more fun people with motorboats seemed to be having, we switched plans and rented one. We spent the day water skiing, tubing, and making fun of my dad’s...
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- Portrait Project
Angel Gonzalez
stop and when our mom caught up, we broke the news that her purse was gone and in it all the money we had—including rent for the month. Strangers stared as we consoled our mom. A few, however, generously gave us just enough money for the...
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- Portrait Project
Auden Laurence
sister, a “servant leader” as my grandfather put it. And, over time, my sister grew strong. Years later, I read a quote that spoke to my soul: “service is the rent we pay for living.” I saw my lived purpose on the page, learned from my...
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- 2008
- Simulation
Pricing Simulation: Universal Car Rental
This web-based simulation presents an engaging context in which students develop their knowledge of pricing by managing a rental car operation (Universal) in Florida and improve regional performance by developing a pricing strategy. The simulation involves three...
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Competition;
Consumer Behavior;
Price;
Profit;
Renting or Rental;
Auto Industry;
Service Industry;
Miami;
Orlando;
Tampa
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
finishing work on a case study about Airbnb, where anyone can offer a room in their house or an apartment for short-term rentals. "Compared to restaurant choice, people are taking a big risk when deciding to rent their apartment to a...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
rent the clearing and settling capabilities, the stock loan inventories and balance sheets of the banks. The hedge funds claim to be able to provide substantial returns regardless of the direction of the market. Like mutual funds and...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
watched the Mahabharata on rented videotapes. I watched Bollywood movies religiously. I wrote in my HBS essay: “According to The New York Times, Bollywood is viewed as an industry that can successfully market its wares only to those...
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- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
Jon Staff (MBA ’16) is the CEO and Founder of Getaway, a company that designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, starting at $99/night. He was the co-president...
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- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
million square feet of office space rented by companies like Honeywell and KPMG, EcoWorld features 134 thousand square feet of retail and other public spaces. During our tour, we saw first-hand how these public spaces were designed to...
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
Library's impressive collection of scientific volumes, and in the basements of a series of rented apartments, he devoted himself to the development of a synthetic light-polarizing material. "You want to be undisturbed. You want to be free...
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- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
experiences founding companies such as Blue Apron, Rent the Runway, Gilt, and AdoreMe, asking what they discovered along the way and what they wish they had known beforehand. The authors showcase the founders in their own words and give...
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- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
protect the rights and well-being of remote employees can further foster the work-from-anywhere movement.” 3. Incentivize people to move to lower-profile areas. Not everyone wants to take out a massive mortgage or pay exorbitant rent to...
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by Kara Baskin
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn off. Among several items detailed...
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- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
low WTS in their relationship with Apple; this is because the company increases foot traffic by about 10 percent for all the other stores in the mall. And, as the figure suggests, a busier mall allows owners to increase the rent for all...
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by Danielle Kost