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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Luxury cruise company Royal Caribbean’s connection to public health might not be immediately apparent. “People don’t think of it as a health company, obviously,” says Professor...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
Princess ships, the cruise line became synonymous with the onboard high jinks of Captain Stubing, Gopher, and Julie McCoy. "I've had many a person ask me if I'm the Julie of Princess Cruises," laughs Swartz, who joined Princess in 2001...
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Jack Frye
In 1935, Frye began to experiment with high-altitude flying, and by 1940, Trans-World Airlines had a fleet of Boeing Stratocruisers built to cruise at high altitude. In 1944, Frye flew from Burbank, California to Washington D.C. in a...
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Transportation
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
accurate – April rolled around and, like clockwork, so did an internship opportunity at Cruise, a self-driving car company (hence my futuristic commute). After WesTrek, I realized I wanted to work in San Francisco at a tech startup with a socially conscious mission....
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the Port of Boston and three regional...
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Donald W. Douglas
Douglas developed and built all types of military planes as well as civilian transport planes. The big breakthrough for Douglas came in the early 1930s when he introduced the DC series of planes. In 1935, Douglas introduced the DC-3, which had 21 to 28 passenger seats,...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
Real estate broker Sharon Enloe Baum (MBA ’65) cruises the streets of Manhattan in a chauffeured black Rolls-Royce that sports the license plate SOLD 1. Actually, in terms of co-ops and houses, she’s sold a lot more than one during her...
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Real Estate
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to be fallible. You can look at this as a shakedown cruise of our...
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- Portrait Project
Irene So
that they never had, so they can cruise around the suburbs of Chicago in style. And what do I want to do besides that? I want to laugh hysterically every day - big, belly-aching laughs that make your face hurt. I want to make my fiancé...
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- Portrait Project
Eric Adamson
genocides, both old and new. Through mountains, where wild species – gorillas, insects, weeds – struggled against extinction from poaching, pesticides, diseases. Through cities, where luxury cars cruised past gaunt people in shanty towns,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price...
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- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
in Caracas, Venezuela. At retirement, Charlie said that he and his wife intended to do a lot of traveling, and they did so, cruising to the Mediterranean, the Orient, and the North Cape of Scandinavia. They lived in Lighthouse Point,...
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Keith Larson
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
whether they should modify this strategy somewhat, or whether they should abandon their current strategy entirely. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/advising-families-on-estate-planning/an/314088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-069 Royal Caribbean...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Yiwei Zhao
about assisting students in career visioning, networking, interview prep, resume and cover letter reviews, and pivoting into product / tech. Employment Experience: Apple (AI/ML team, MBA Summer Internship), GM Cruise (Product Operations,...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
optimize my learning at the same time. Work alone did not drive my decision though. BCG’s willingness to play as hard as we worked provided the last piece of the puzzle. At the end of our first week, we joined an office celebration taking a View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday...
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Julia Hanna
- 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
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
you've ever seen it-- it's a very visual sport. It combines sailing, and gymnastics, and parasailing, and gliding. And it's a sport that allows you to basically, harness the forces of nature-- wind and water-- and you can basically, load up some power in your kite and...
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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