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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
dentists who got lucky on the stock market.” The development plan calls for a golf course with villas, a luxury boutique hotel, farms, a nature preserve and science research center, and a beach village with a nearby artists’ colony. Curry...
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- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
augmented-reality instructions southwestern us HBS Association of Southern California Brandon Molina, MBA 2010 CEO Swing by Swing Golf technology for the greens 2012 HBS Alumni New Venture Contest legal services sponsor: Cooley, LLP...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
From Wildlife to Winetasting
visiting Mala Mala, where one is likely to see the "big five" - elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard. Other tours within South Africa include golf excursions, a luxury ride aboard the elegant Blue Train, and a desert safari in the...
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
4: Product Line Breadth/Extending the Brand While Module 3 examines line evolution within a given category, Module 4 looks at evolution of the company’s offering across product categories. Cases include Topgolf as it extends from its golf...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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South Africa Conference Preview
special interest tours - to big game reserves, bird sanctuaries, and golf resorts, for example - are also being planned. "Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing for the last seven years at a rate of 4 to 5 percent," said HBS professor...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
ministers at the Royal Thimphu Golf Club, Kinley Dorji, the Ministry of Education’s director of Youth, Culture, and Sports, invited us to visit schools in the country’s capital. (All children attend school through the 10th grade, and...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) is delighted with the event's success on many levels. "As we break new ground as an organization," he notes, "we appreciate the tremendous support we've received from individuals and corporate sponsors such as The Gap, Kraft Foods, Morgan...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
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Andrew Pratt
the ninety percent of businesses who couldn’t have afforded it. One of things that’s been fascinating is watching the interest in this evolve. It’s the small real-estate agency that wants to show off property, or the golf course designer...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
venues, such as the House of Lords, National Theatre, Tower Bridge, London Zoo, and Somerset House, for its annual summer and Christmas parties. An annual ball, golf days, and Sunday visits to historic buildings bring members together to...
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Amy E. Dean
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Celebrating our Student Fathers - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Hiroshi Mikitani
categories. By allowing the merchants such freedom, Rakuten has tapped into a Japanese sensibility that is attracted to the individuality of each merchant. For example, golf, a hugely popular pastime in Japan, has tapped deeply into Rakuten. The individual View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” “I don’t...
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April White
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
in the subsequent periods. Pricing in installments is one way they can do this. In the case of the country club, I might advise that dues be billed in the middle of the winter when the ability and desire to play golf is low.— John...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
think Hello Kitty is just for kids, but it’s for all ages. For example, a lady might want a Hello Kitty golf bag or jewelry for herself. We also have a licensing partnership with the hard rock band KISS. We don’t believe this is a...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
recipient of $25,000 for TrophoMax, a producer of patented seed and leaf inoculants. Jonathan Assayag (MBA 2010) of the HBS Club of Brazil was a semifinalist for Lema21, an online retail channel for quality eyewear. An online poll named Swing by Swing View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Palm Beach, Florida (but still calls Boston “home”). While he golfs “a bit,” he remains a prolific writer and is the author or coauthor of nearly twenty books. His latest, Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in...
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- 10 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Reflection
Q&A with the CEO, watched a golf tournament from the CFO’s house, and had a training on strategic thinking led by the SVP of corporate strategy (an HBS alumna). Beyond this, I had the chance to meet several SVPs to discuss my project...
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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Second, VW factories "fully loaded" the New Beetles with options to maximize the unit margin that VW and the dealers extracted on each vehicle. Third, VW incented its dealers to stock up on non-scarce cars such as Golfs and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
quietly) and not to take things personally. Havens-Hasty married newspaper publisher Dozier Hasty in 1984. The couple has two sons, aged six and ten, who enjoy playing golf and chess with their parents. "We have a lot of help on the home...
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Linda Goodspeed