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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
airlines to adopt the recommendations of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Despite operating as a smaller player in an industry dominated by few legacy competitors, JetBlue leadership... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
20th century, automobiles and airlines pushed rail into the background as an often-troubled and neglected mode. After a review of the long history of rail in the U.S., this paper examines the situation in the 21st century, including the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue—typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)—made a move that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft built and sold by Boeing. This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
April 2010, the eruption of a volcano wreaked havoc in the airline industry and placed Aer Arann on the brink of liquidation. For founder, sole owner, and chairman, Padraig O'Ceidigh, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
second year,” he says. Gardner has built Kyruus into an industry leader in providing search, scheduling, and data management services for health systems. Simplifying the Process “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
support these browsers, they will not hit the mainstream in any major fashion. Why won't an IT manager support these versions? The biggest headache with these browsers is that the majority of Web sites are optimized on IE. Try going to some of the major commercial... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
Elberse’s Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries class. Having worked with the class to market a previous film, Gaudet and Pullapilly approached Elberse again in 2012 to advise them on how to find a marketing and distribution partner... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
management reports: green for things that are going well, yellow for areas that are OK, and red for places that are falling behind. The obvious reaction is to say, "Get better at the reds." That's fine, unless the presence of the reds is what's fueling the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
needs first, in the airline industry alone, Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, and JetBlue were founded during downturns on the principles of delivering value. In terms of affordable luxuries, consider the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
the airline industry, looking at how its leadership changed during the course of the twentieth century and how contextual intelligence or lack thereof influenced industry evolution. We are particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne