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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the business, hiking out to Kuala... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida movie set in the middle of... 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
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
a little bit too intrusive. But I found that the gentleman that time was having a vacation in France. So that day I said, "Good. I have to go. I have to find Tim because he is close by." Morrell: So on June 2017, Piero calls Tim's mobile number. Tim Perzyk: I was in an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
billion in projects that include Gatwick Airport and the Port of Melbourne. “You should always be inquisitive and progressing in your career,” he says, describing this latest chapter as “a tremendous amount of fun.” Why HBS? “I dropped... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a two-lane road between the airport and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel from Boston’s Logan View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
first location at Boston’s Logan Airport last December. “The fundamentals of the company have not really changed,” she says, adding that the contest gave her the courage to take the entrepreneurial leap. “Having a bunch of smart people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
admired his humbleness, personal touch, level of energy, and true interest in getting to know each of us. John loved Italy deeply and had many amazing stories to tell related to his Italian business and leisure experiences. Last time I met him was just a few years ago... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales approaching $2 billion. View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
in the city, a transportation mode he’s favored since HBS, when he would cycle to the airport before flights back to Mexico City, leaving his bike locked up in front of a supermarket in East Boston. There’s Commander’s Palace, once the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
other every day for the last thirty years. Anyway, when I called him in New York, he just was beside himself. When he later learned there would be a reception for me at HBS that day, he wanted to get to Boston as quickly as possible. He couldn't find a taxi to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
encompasses housing, water, transportation, and environmental priorities. Aside from downtown Colombo, the plan proposes a business park adjacent to the airport as well as a ring of clustered mini cities around the capital, each with a... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
of, like, when you actually make the leap. And so I was in that limbo for a long time and met an entrepreneur who told me that he thought of making the leap in terms of an airport runway. And he said when you're flying a plane, you're... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to open in April 1998, and the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes