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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
- July 2016
- Case
Cataumet Boats, Inc.
By: W. Earl Sasser and Mark Davis
Jaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics. She believes that her family's business, Cataumet Boats, which her grandparents started and which her mother and... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Business; Production; Cost Management; Transportation; Customer Satisfaction
Sasser, W. Earl, and Mark Davis. "Cataumet Boats, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-509, July 2016.
- 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
Henry R. Mallory
Under Mallory's presidency, the company became the second largest shipping company and 59th largest corporation in the United States. He was owner-operator of 70 American flag steamships, and his assets... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
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American Business History Records | Baker Library
resource for the study of American commerce and industry and cover a broad range of business activities. The collections include the records of companies and the papers of individual businesspeople. They reflect the evolution of American... 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
- 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
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
worked for consulting firms that specialized in transportation issues and the emerging field of software development. Concentrating her strengths and areas of interest, she later worked as an analyst and portfolio manager for mutual funds... View Details
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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
productivity has multiplied four- or fivefold in the last fifteen years,” beams Khoo Teng Chye (110th AMP), group president of PSA. “Our company is a world leader in applying technology to port management and fully automating operations.”... View Details
Donald C. Burr
early 1980s, allowing the company to profitably offer lower fares than its competitors. In 1983, People stock, issued at $8 dollars a share, rose to a high of $50 and split two for one. In 1985, Burr purchased Frontier Airlines, making... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Robert R. Young
Young set out to take over the holding company that owned the C&O Railroad, and despite losing substantial backing from a group of General Motors executives, Young eventually gained control of the company. Soon after that victory... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
water entrepreneurship ecosystem is lagging behind other sectors that are on focused climate and sustainability—led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests exclusively in entrepreneurs building technologies... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor driving out coal. The View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE... View Details
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Seth Moulton
experience but no business background, HBS has given me the knowledge and credibility to work towards becoming a leader in the business community. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? For whatever reason, I always envisioned myself working at a large... View Details
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Erika Osterling
services across different businesses and geographies, leading to a global P&L role. In her most recent role as Executive Director at Russell Reynolds, she advised CEO, C-Suite leaders and board of directors of public and private View Details
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