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Airline industry: overviews & statistics
Australian, and global markets Statista - quick statistics and articles on the topic Additional resource: United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics Federal Aviation Administration Global and European Air View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter 8 “The View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
Photography by Brandon Patoc You think the traffic is bad where you live? Be glad you don’t live in London, where the average driver wastes 101 hours a year—the most of any city in Europe—stuck in traffic, according to the Traffic Scorecard from INRIX, a global... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
out to the employee to discuss her actions. All told, Forbes notes that Shoen averages about three calls a day, but can field dozens in the span of a few hours. Amerco is a family company—started by Shoen’s father—and the piece details the family infighting that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
clear that if my family was going to stay in manufacturing, we would have to become globally competitive.” The Wisconsin businesses were sold in 2002, and a new company with a new strategy, Chirch Global Manufacturing (CGM), was born.... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
fix. In the short run, it may be easier to sweep the problem under the rug than to find a real solution. But if customers have the choice to go elsewhere, companies do well to keep them satisfied. Lessons from United Airlines For a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
John D. Hertz
Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1915 as a way to provide transportation services at a modest price. At the time, livery services were targeted only to the upper echelons of society, and Hertz... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Alden J. Laborde
apparatus. To service mobile rigs, Laborde formed the Tidewater Marine Service Company which grew to become one of the world’s largest marine transport operations for the offshore oil industry. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
James C. Donnell
Donnell expanded Ohio Oil’s reach to include 16 states and Mexico. Donnell established the Illinois Pipeline Corporation, capitalized at $20 million, to operate the pipeline transportation company of Ohio... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr.
During his tenure, Luckenbach reorganized the company by withdrawing ships from the unprofitable intercoastal trade and re-deploying them on the international charter market. At the same time, he broadened the shore side activities of the... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
People are hired to deliver empathy, a sense of humor, and total devotion to Customers (always capitalized at Southwest), something that has produced intense loyalty from flyers. These are elements of several cases I and my colleagues have written about the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
situation; indeed, they can help to shape it. Up until several months ago, for example, there was no door-to-door transport agreement between Jordan and Israel. This meant that a company wanting to View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
million would be saved in annual energy costs. If each household replaced its appliances with the most efficient available, $15 billion of savings in energy costs would result. The top 3,000 public companies cause over $2.15 trillion, or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
Henry B. Spencer
After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining