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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
online magazine and store to purchase full-size products. Palliative Care of America David Matly Michael Matly Business Track Runner-Up Palliative Care of America provides the best quality of life for seriously and terminally ill patients by providing View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
locations differ in their ability to support the frontier, but also due to standard agglomeration. Different industries use different aspects of the internet, and industries tend to agglomerate in some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller
at the intersection of science and business, but this vision no longer excited me quite as much as before. What really excited me now? The prospect of a career in the airline industry. This might seem like an odd pivot but travelling to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
movies. Another success is how airlines have trained us all to take part in cleaning the plane before landing. During the final approach, a flight attendant asks over the P.A. that we pass our trash and unused items to a crew member in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first in their View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
environmental protection movements strengthen Vehicle Safety Act and Highway Safety Act Closing merger loophole opens door for conglomerate business model Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Deregulation of oil and airline View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
for a battered dictionary. Late one night, I decided that the chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines was “Russi Modi,” rather than “Mody,” as Parsis would spell it. The next day, when I entered the office, proof of my stupidity was... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
analysts, auditors, and accounting standards—rush in to fill that gap. Even in cases where a certain company dominates a market to create a near monopoly, entrepreneurs can find competitive advantages to create new opportunities—think IBM and Apple, United View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
process solutions has become clear. And it is driving new business creation, as well as traditional business adaptation, at far higher than previous rates. With the evolution of our great industrial and financial base, we may at last be... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building bridges between Asia and the US
Ravi Chidambaram (MBA 1978) talks about helping launch an oil industry coalition to provide low-cost fuel to the airline industry, and his work with the Asia Society, bringing View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
always been intriguing to me,” says Carty, which explains his five decades in the field—starting at Air Canada, moving on to American Airlines (where he served as chairman and CEO), and including board stints with Porter Airlines, Virgin... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
would go on to spend his career making those trips an attainable reality for millions of Americans, riding a wave of deregulation in the airline industry as both an advisor and an executive. He ultimately... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
on Tuesday and did not go home until Friday, September 14,” said Whitehurst, who is now Delta’s COO. Invited to HBS in March by the Hospitality and Travel Industry Club, Whitehurst discussed lessons learned from what he sees as the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
people’s lives.” And he did, first as a consultant to the airline industry and then as chief commercial officer at a low-cost Brazilian airline. But when the company’s IPO was called off and it was sold,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Don’t Be Atlas: Get the World off Your Shoulders; Dig Deep for the Root Cause; Get Ready for the Long Haul; Never Waste a Good Crisis; You’re in the Spotlight: Follow True North; and Go on Offense, Focus on Winning Now. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the... View Details
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Oliver Bladek
"The airline industry is a fascinating place to work. There's no shortage of problems to solve. But when you do it right, I think you have something truly incredible," he says. Oliver's ambition... View Details
Cyrus R. Smith
the airline on the cutting edge of the industry with his patronage of new aviation technology, helping American become one of the largest airline carriers in the nation. View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
the union movement in North America. On a larger scale, sizeable groups of workers primarily in service industries recently disengaged themselves from the AFL-CIO, which they perceived as being dominated by smaller, more traditional,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett