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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
cities elsewhere—PRT probably isn't a great fit. But even small to midsized cities struggle with automobile congestion, particularly since subways and light rail often don't match their needs. In this spirit, Santa Cruz, California, and... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
world’s leading rail car manufacturer headquartered in Beijing. These cars are assembled by American workers in Springfield, Massachusetts, a city that until 1920 was the center of US railway manufacturing. CRRC has made the largest... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in fast-fashion supply chains. It used combinations of land, short-sea, and rail routes to provide different levels of service. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the majority of grain was shipped out... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
exciting thing they’ve seen in recent years, where you have the entire grid changing and the demand curve changing with the electrification of transportation. It’s also happening in rail and in other forms of transport. “I recommend a... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
The Bulletin staff set out to answer a question they hear all the time: Who ARE the HBS alumni? Digging into the alumni database,* they found a network that ranged from farmers to financiers, and just about everything in between. Here, a few of the stories behind the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
by Indigo Ag, she began the journey to where she is today: a modern university campus built on the site of a former rail yard where, in the 1880s, her great-great-great-grandmother Agnes Flockhart, a recent immigrant from Scotland, got... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
McArthur My son Joe, then four years old, approached the burlier of our two dinner guests. “Bet you don’t pillow fight.” This was odd. Joe was shy and didn’t usually approach strangers. “Bet I do,” John McArthur replied. He arched an eyebrow provocatively. “Oh, John,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
it features an extensive public-transport network, a fleet of electric water taxis on its Venice-like canals, high-speed rail to Seoul, and minimal accommodation to automobiles. Macomber in Vietnam: “The core infrastructure of cities —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
we rail against in class is that product development just throws a new product over the wall to marketing and expects them to go sell it. For the last 50 years, innovation theorist Everett Rogers told us that the difference between a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
believe we ran off the rails in these last 7 years? A: Several ways. We let the rhetoric of fear overcome the natural self-confidence of the American people. When there were restrictions placed on certain liberties, there was not as much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
regulations,” he said. Dimon also agreed with criticisms of excessive executive compensation. “There were a lot of people who in hindsight wound up making a lot of money who didn’t deserve it.” As for politicians, Dimon railed against... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
logistical coordination with city officials on issues such as parking and access to Dallas’s light rail system. Responding to constant demands for information and decisions can be stressful, she admits, but the challenges are inspiring.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
other domains, such as rail or hospital passenger flow. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55098 Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize? By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Art Nature Business
ice from Spy Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported ice by rail and ship from freshwater ponds to locations... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
from the steps of Baker Library as some students railed against the invasion of Cambodia, others spoke with pride of their recent military service in Vietnam, and still others broke through the din with shouts of "Free Bobby Seale!" When... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- February 2017
- Supplement
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated by Clear Channel from the number-one spot that it had held for decades, and it was fighting for second place... View Details
Keywords: JCDecaux; Clear Channel Outdoor; OUTFRONT Media; Lamar Advertising Company; Jean-François Decaux; Jean-Charles Decaux; Outdoor Advertising; Street Furniture; Airports; Billboards; Bicycles; Digital Devices; Digital Marketing; Bidding; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Design; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Business History; Human Resources; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Operations; Distribution; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product; Product Design; Production; Organizational Structure; Property; Public Ownership; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Sales; Situation or Environment; Luxury; Strategy; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Mobile Technology; Wireless Technology; Air Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Advertising Industry; France; Paris
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-441, February 2017.