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- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
ethical behavior of management, for example,” explains Cameron, who is part owner of Blackbushe Airport in Surrey, England. “We have always supported HBS and believe we should give something back. The fund gives us the opportunity to say... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
outsourcing for businesses. The Massachusetts Port Authority operates Logan International Airport, two regional airports in the Boston area, the Port of Boston, and the Tobin Memorial Bridge, which connects downtown with the northern... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
For three weeks in 1992, Mario Corti saw the world as few travelers do. In a Cessna 340, he and another pilot took off from Southern California and headed east, making stops in North America, Greenland, Iceland, England, Scandinavia, Russia, and Alaska, before... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
as a 15-year-old, put together the whole trip and make all the arrangements at the airport. In those days, you got your tickets either at the airport or on the phone. Nothing like today. I really got excited about that. AW: Tell me about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
hours has been right here." Snapshots from the conference follow. Problem: Air Traffic US airport congestion ranks with the world's worst, with more than 25 percent of flights arriving more than 15 minutes late, says advocacy group... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the industry that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
to exercise. It was the key to his longevity, he said, along with lots of sleep and no alcohol or tobacco. He was known for walking from airports to downtown hotels and climbing the stairs in skyscrapers. He ran his first marathon, in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
doom scrolling. After exercising, I’ll typically commute either to the airport or the office and do some email or quick calls along the way. Usually there’s something that came up the previous evening or sometime during the night, in... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
expectations for myself,” she says. Smyth continued her work with the foundation when she left the corporate world to run her own businesses, together with her husband, Paul Lockey (MBA 1984), and when she moved into governance. She currently is director of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Prison. This was the result of Iran’s state-sanctioned persecution of Bahá’ís, which continues to this day. I was two years old. It was freezing in Idaho Falls when we landed but the local Bahá’í community welcomed us at the airport with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
babies on the “no fly” list. It’s searches and racial profiling at airport security. It’s suspicious looks from neighbors. We experience this where we work and live. And then we turn on the nightly news and we see hatred, like the pastor... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
marketplace matching educational institutions with student-loan lenders and lenders with secondary markets. Caroline A. Oberg (MBA '98) of ODAC, Inc., a software solution transforming the advertising media procurement process. Kristin S. Rhyne (MBA '99) of Polished,... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
there on time. One of the things Sender likes to do as CEO is visit the airports. She's looking for the length of the lines, the number of people using the self-check-in services, how the employees are interacting with the customers. At a recent visit to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Touch Down
In September 2000, Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) took off from El Cajon, California, in an aging single-engine Cessna named Lucky Lady Too. Ten years later, this past January, he landed at the same airport after visiting all fifty U.S. states... View Details
Keywords: world records
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna