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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
airlines’ transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), for example, and incentivizing greener options for airport transport, whether that’s an Uber, HOV, or a Logan Express bus. “We think about our 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers taxi down the runway at London’s Farnborough 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 Dec 1999
- News
Ceiling Unlimited
business aircraft. "I knew a little about airplanes but not much," Chen said. "It's different from all the things I did before." Today, located in a state-of-the-art facility at Long Beach Airport where it's a neighbor of aircraft giant... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
That image you have from television, of a lifesaving organ packed in a cooler—just like the one you would use to carry beer—is pretty accurate, says Giwa. People running frantically through airports with coolers to catch last-minute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 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 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 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