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Mar 2019

31m 33s

Airbnb, Plus Lessons from Kraft Heinz an...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

About this episode

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate how well Airbnb is managing growth amid backlash from cities like New York City. They also discuss Kraft Heinz’s controversial zero-based budgeting approach to management.

Some recent picks:

Ash is Purest White (Movie)
Dynasties (Nature Series)
After Life (Netflix)
Shoplifters (Movie)
Motif (Photobooks)
Hopper (App)
Free Solo (National Geographic Documentary)
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Benjamin Dreyer)
Interesting as F*** (Reddit subreddit)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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