Traffic Flow Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

deposits and its business of revolving credit, on which it had substantial exposure. To add to that, the SVB leadership’s unorthodox approach to management of liquidity pressures clearly backfired. The bottom line: The art is not to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

conjuring up. 3. Emphasize coaching and mentoring over managing the details. Talent is the most important strategic resource for future success, suggests Hargrove. You can't win the talent wars without putting leadership development at... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

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Profiles - MBA

Systems Quality, I learned a tremendous amount about how products go from concept to the hands of users around the world. I had the opportunity to manage and direct two studies related to the iPad ecosystem. The experience was very... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

leadership—setting the rules within which an organization pursues a moral task—and it flows from being comfortable enough with ambiguity to focus on the process of work as well as its goal. Leaders also require a capacity for complexity.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

says. "I often compare it to the heightened awareness you have when driving in a foreign city, where you will pay more attention to the road signs and traffic signs. It's this kind of heightened awareness and reflection about what I think... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

research, started in the year 2000, was aimed at understanding how an innovative team working together in a creative act managed the process of knowledge transfer between the more experienced and less experienced members of that team. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

February 1996
Case

USX Corporation

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott

A large diversified steel and energy firm is pressured by a corporate raider to spin off its steel business in order to increase its stock price. As an alternative to the spinoff, management proposes replacing the company's common stock with two new classes of... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Stocks; Valuation; Financial Institutions; Cash Flow

Citation

Educators

Purchase

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated with digging the canal in the early 20th century, the first... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Grushka-Cockayne says. “It’s still a numbers game. It’s a challenging thing to convey, so practicing with good visualizations and conveying the visualizations is something we think is key.” In practice at Heathrow Grushka-Cockayne has another paper out, Forecasting... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

non-connected stocks by up to 7.8% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements, consistent with mutual fund managers gaining an informational advantage through the education networks. Our results suggest that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Business History - Faculty & Research

long-term equity structures, and preserving the firm's distinct culture. Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation ; Business Model ; Talent and Talent Management ; Capital Structure ; Cash Flow ; Corporate... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Design and perform hypothesis tests with P-value 60 hrs Course – 5 Modules Economics for Managers Economics for Managers will enable you to drive critical business decisions. Explore how businesses approach... View Details

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

management may motivate managers to operate with insufficient labor levels, which, in turn, degrades profitability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-040.pdf Cases & Course... View Details