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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
same opportunities she had. "As a sales person, I'm always asking something of people. I have to give back to the community," she says. She currently devotes time to serve on the board of the Eastern Regional Helicopter Council and several View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and cash-flow problems, Eclipse 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 airport as an ecosystem, where the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian defense giant Cobham View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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 how you entered the View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
to enroll at a local university. University was the bridge to who I am today. Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) Segment Head, Momentum Retail A dream grounded I’ve been intrigued by aviation since childhood. After HBS I spent several years... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central aviation hub as just a few of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t store enough power or are simply too heavy to lug around, like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main focus is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
history of aviation is such a romantic part of our culture. Do you have a favorite figure from the past century? Listen, the people who built and flew airplanes at the very beginning are all heroes — Bill Boeing, Charles Lindbergh. Then... View Details