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- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
Holidazzle and the Newport Ball, as well as the “TGIF” get-togethers in between, a question from a current student government officer about raising the fee sparked a lively give-and-take about transparency. “The SA lost several thousand dollars on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
it’s the birthplace and the namesake of those concrete barriers that line America’s highways, the home of the country’s busiest toll road, and a place where summer nights seem custom-made for cruising to the Shore, or nowhere special,...
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- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card processing center for supermarkets,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
From Germany to HBS
Despite growing up in a small village in southern Germany, I have always had a strong sense of curiosity that drew me to places far away. As a young boy I often gazed up at the airliners cruising 36,000ft above and wondered what their...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
drag-car racer -- from zero to 150 miles an hour in less than two seconds before Baldwin throttled up to a cruising speed of more than 400 miles per hour and headed for his target, where he reached a "top-end speed" of over 550 miles per...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
to reduce waste, Imperfect Foods acquired a fraction of the airlines’ canceled orders. In April, Imperfect customers who usually purchased produce and staples could add on a single-serving cheese platter for $2.99—a snack that would have fetched several times that...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
resorts and the cruise lines, where the contact between staff and guest remains quite superficial," Giraud says. Tough Competition For decades, Club Med touted itself as "the antidote to civilization." Set in beautiful, unspoiled...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
potential to produce remarkable services and longer lives. But before we become too enamored with them, it's important to remember what happened to Tom Cruise in the movie. He is eventually accused on a precrime basis of murder, with only...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
work. Trips to tropical places are opportunities to secure new hotel customers. Summer beach time has been replaced with road trips to the Hamptons and Nantucket. I think the only safe place for a true vacation now is an iceberg cruise in...
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- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
priority, I was able to keep that time on my calendar clear. How are you celebrating Father’s Day? Taking a cruise along the Charles River with my family. I’m sure there will be some time at the Soldiers Field Park playground thrown in...
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- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
health what WAZE has done for traffic congestion, Macomber says. “There is going to be substantially more awareness and interest on the part of the public, in terms of the quality of the spaces that they’re occupying, and they’ll be selective about their airplanes and...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
most days, I do not feel a need to have anything more. Then again, while Glide spent the last several months in a frozen Long Island parking lot, Lady Linda, which was launched last summer, has been cruising the Caribbean. How she finally...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
He introduced me to his editors and mentors and reintroduced me to subject-verb agreement. And I was going to repay all of this by, in his words, “going to the dark side?” You know, that two-year sojourn for bankers and consultants View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
less than 10,000 pounds, VLJs typically have a range of about 1,200 nautical miles before refueling, accommodate three or four passengers, cruise at about the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and have the capacity to land on...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
academic sessions, the conference offered plenty of time for relaxation and socializing. A gala dinner was held at The Field Museum, where the Chicago Club presented this year's Statesman of the Year Award to Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the Chicago Mercantile...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
school or airplane or cruise ship is “healthy.” Based on research in Healthy Buildings (my recent book with Professor Joseph Allen of the Harvard School of Public Health), we expect landlords, cruise...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
important than owning the car.” —Freeman Shen (AMP 184, 2013), founder and CEO of WM Motor If all goes according to plan, then, fleets of autonomous, battery-powered electric cars will soon cruise the streets of major cities around the...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
enjoyable evenings talking. As an HBS student in 1958–1960 I was never able to spend so much time with a “legend” and get to know him on a personal level, so our time together on the cruise felt especially valuable. Allan J. Tomlinson,...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
produced multiple blockbuster hits. ESPN, ABC, and other cable and broadcast properties were producing record profits. Attendance was up at Disney parks and cruise ships, while the Shanghai Disney Resort, the company’s third and largest...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
short, it's a pillow from a cruise ship. [BOTH LAUGHING] But we were always—you know? We were always told that this does happen. White: So you hinted at something there that I certainly wasn't aware of at the time, but the things that...
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