Airline Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

Jan W. Rivkin

Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

W. Earl Sasser

Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

Frances X. Frei

Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

decisions that were so clearly disastrous not only for workers and others exposed to asbestos but for the company itself. Shortly thereafter, in 1982, with its asbestos-related liabilities projected to exceed its assets, Johns-Manville shocked the business world by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Srikant M. Datar

Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry

Web

Creating a Successful Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

industries in the 1980s by doing things in a novel way. They essentially rewrote the playbooks for how to run an airline and sell furniture—and carved out long-lasting, unique strategic positions in the... View Details

Web

Latin America - Global

Burgeoning Wine Industry In Latin America, female entrepreneurs are making a profound impact on economic growth and development. While much of this momentum comes from small enterprises, there are inspiring stories of women who succeed at... View Details

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

we asked 600 global CEOs across a variety of industries what concerns were keeping them awake at night. Their topics ranged widely, but a handful of overarching mental tasks emerged: Comprehend complex, rapidly changing circumstances... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

industry for over 35 years. Patrik describes how ReJu turns discarded apparel made of polyester blends into new polyester, and how it tackles the logistical and technical challenges of sorting, processing, and regenerating blended fabrics... View Details

Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

Willis M. Emmons

WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004. As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

appropriately staged over a number of years. This situation could be said to characterize the mainframe computer industry during the 1980s, when business customers moved away from mainframes towards UNIX-based "open... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

options. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-020.pdf How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture Authors:Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece Abstract In making strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

—on how to make sure your next career move is the right one Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff Former Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the View Details

Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

of a business dilemma in which Latam Airlines considers re-entering the Argentinian market. Keywords: Business History ; Business and Government Relations ; Corporate Strategy ; Transformation ; Economy ; Air Transportation ; Air... View Details

William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

Keywords: airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline; airline

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

changed the rules of the game globally for an entire industry by offering both differentiated and low-price service. The focus of the case is on whether Southwest Airlines should buy gates and slots to... View Details