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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
case exciting to teach. By 1999, as described in Part C, Ryanair is the most profitable airline in the world. I like this case series because you get to see success and failure side by side in one industry and in one company. It’s a case...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
I did. Frank Lorenzo, class of 63'. As a CEO of continental airlines, and before that Texas International Airlines, we faced airline deregulation, which was of course very tough thing since we had been in a regulated business where we had...
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- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309090 Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America Harvard Business School Case 709-410 Lan Airlines operates three distinct...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a...
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- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the...
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- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Summit attendees worked on identifying "bottlenecks and pain points" while devising potential solutions to the country's infrastructure woes. Many of the problems have a direct impact on business. For example, airline flight...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
across the river at Harvard College and at other locations throughout the University. Speaking on behalf of Dean Kim B. Clark, who was in New Mexico and unable to return due to airline travel restrictions, longtime faculty member...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
period. And over the past 10 years it realized an average total ROE of nearly 20 percent, versus negative 1 percent for the S&P 500. Others are Cemex (historically, good returns in the cement business!) and Ryanair (good returns in the View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
Thanks to technology and instant global communication, it has never been easier for companies to seek solutions to problems or find new ideas from sources outside their own corporate walls. But the art of managing these external innovation models is far from...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Group between 2015 and late 2017 when it grew rapidly through global acquisitions to become 170 on the 2017 Fortune 500 list. A firm that had begun as a provincial airline in China was now a giant global conglomerate and suddenly the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
can the firm increase the sales of its products? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ministry-of-supply-will-professionals-demand-its-performance/an/814042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-024 Viva Macau (A) A fast-growing Macau-based View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
former Bain associate Persistency Pays Kelly Cook had wanted to work at Continental Airlines for as long as she could remember. As a young, recently divorced mother of one, she began temping in the Houston area while applying for every...
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by Wendy Guild
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
situational inequality, induced by the design of environments, can foster antisocial behavior. We use a complete set of all onboard air rage incidents over several years from a large, international airline to test our predictions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services...
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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
let people pay their bills online, and airline apps let them check in and monitor the status of their flights. (2) Offer unique value. In South Korea, commuters can use an app to order groceries while waiting for their trains. (3) Provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
eradicating the shortage of classroom desks in public schools. What should Immelman do? Will Lapdesk achieve its mission? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808008 Lobbying for Love? Southwest View Details
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Martha Lagace