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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909025 Malaysia Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-024 In the first six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Malaysia View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
toward gunfire, where they certainly would be needed. Southwest Airlines famously provides structure to staff built on culture and an aligned operating model. In the field, staff members know what levers they can pull to respond to... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain financial performance beyond the "direct goal" of profit. These might include the speed of aircraft turnaround in the airline industry, the conversion rate of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Illustration by Chris Gash Last spring, as the number of air travelers plummeted, airlines and their meal suppliers were left holding the bag—an enormous snack bag filled with individually wrapped cookies, salted pretzels, and cheese... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
if we would help him put a computer in the home of every employee worldwide. “We did that with Ford, and then the next day in the front page of the New York Times announced a similar deal with Delta Airlines for their nearly 90,000... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
provide these experiences? Purchase this module note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611004-PDF-ENG Southwest Airlines One Report TM Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng, and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Case 411-042 In 2009,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
Starbucks and Lululemon, Day wants to shape Luvo into a lifestyle brand, one that provides “nutrition solutions.” Luvo meals—most under 500 calories and trans fat–free—are currently in 6,000 stores, and a partnership with Delta Airlines... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says proudly. "And ours was the first... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Rayport and Hagel predict that customers will put aside concerns over privacy if they receive sufficient value in return for providing personal information. For example, the authors note that airlines have no trouble collecting... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
classroom and across the campus. Similarly, we must recognize that current reporting practices are antiquated, and the time for a new, sustainable framework has arrived." The workshop included a discussion of the HBS case study, Southwest View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
115-013 Valuation Ratios in the Airline Industry, 2013 Examines factors underlying differences in valuation multiples (price-to-earnings and price-to-book) across four firms in the airline industry. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
many brands have hits and misses when they extend beyond their core franchise. Richard Branson, for example, has done very well with Virgin airlines but other Virgin ventures, such as Virgin Money and Virgin trains, have performed poorly.... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
modeled his concept on the travel and hospitality industries which employed dynamic pricing and relied on successful outlets like Priceline, Expedia and others to sell airline seats and hotel rooms in a manner that was not disruptive to... View Details
- Web
Burden Park | About
studied the developing airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
today, nearly all might have included some reference to the awful watershed events of that day, because those events may have implications for every business story. But what are the implications of the attack? We are already reading, of course, the most obvious stories... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue—typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)—made a move that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Companies by Todd D. Klein (MBA '94) (Praeger) How and why did revolutionary companies such as Google, Apple, Cisco, and South-west Airlines come about? According to Klein, it is the specific business plans and mindsets of the creative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
previous World Cup and Olympic hosts. But the country's lack of transportation alternatives—particularly a useful rail system—has also put an extraordinarily heavy burden on the airlines to move fans to disparate match sites. "I don't... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
20th century, automobiles and airlines pushed rail into the background as an often-troubled and neglected mode. After a review of the long history of rail in the U.S., this paper examines the situation in the 21st century, including the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne