Traffic - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

traffic control comes on the radio. And they say the thing you're never supposed to say, which is they say, according to our computers, at the rate of speed you're approaching, you are going to crash and die as soon as you set this plane... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

that the tire grading system was close to becoming a reality. Second, Joan Claybrook, a former Nader consumer interest group lobbyist, had just become head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency within the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

deploying assets is superior to Walmart's. At the same time, the traffic that was being generated by lower food prices is being threatened by much leaner and more competitive grocery stores. The icing on the cake is that the lower-income... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

ocean exploration. It’s an entire world that needs to be understood and is incredibly valuable to our existence. So that excites me a lot. This last year prompted me to think about the arc of life and death. I lost my eldest son in a View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Business, Energy, and Environment. High Season Wade Myers Traffic is heavy most of the day in Williston as vehicles approach the intersections of Highways 85 and 200-a major crossroads in the region. “I grew up outside Medora—it’s the... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Past Issues - Alumni

from here Vive la Madeleine! How vision, perseverance, and many blocks of real Normandy butter created a new model for French manufacturing Complete Table of Contents September 2016 The Taxi Wars of Jakarta How two alumni-founded on-demand ride services are disrupting... View Details

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

offer the same benefits. While use of social platforms has increased during the pandemic, with Facebook traffic rising by 50 percent in some countries, people don’t get a boost of oxytocin from these interactions. Seeing random photos of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

market. They're more than 90 percent of Google's revenue. For Google, about half of pay-per-click traffic is placement on Google's own site, but the other half is placement that Google arranges on other companies' sites. To make an extra... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

among them was a severe cash flow constraint that prevented Frederic Schreurs from properly forecasting and investing resources to maximize the BIP’s impact. As traffic inched along, Sanginga contemplated how he could steer both the BIP... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

that I’m a woman, and build a really big, successful company, so they can be like, ‘Oh, I should have taken her more seriously.’ ” And perhaps they should have: CloudFlare now handles 5 percent of the world’s Internet traffic and has a... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

fraudsters claim advertising fees for work they did not actually do. The trickiest frauds deceive advertisers so effectively that measurements of ad effectiveness report the fraudsters as exceptionally productive and high quality, rather than revealing that their View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

vital infrastructure that keeps the economy—and goods and services—moving, including roads, bridges, ports, and freight trains. Businesses that want employees to return to the office know that commute times can depend on potholes and public buses. View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

open and comfortable café as well as a McDonald's where visitors can relax and have a reasonably priced meal. A few miles away at the MCA, Vicki Wilson notes that traffic in the museum and rental income from private events has increased... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-070.pdf Search Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

“What keeps it all together is finding innovative new ways to bring costs down and make the business commercially attractive,” says Seabury’s Gautier Brunet. “Planet Labs takes pictures that let you see real-time traffic jams, and you can... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

analytical but also intuitive—one that acknowledges present realities while maintaining high levels of optimism. The same mindset is needed when navigating daily life in Cairo, particularly its infamous traffic—an unending river with few View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly... View Details