shipping - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2010 (Revised August 2021)
Supplement

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen

After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details

Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital Markets; Cash Flow; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Price; Price Bubble; Contracts; Crisis Management; Market Transactions; Valuation; Shipping Industry

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September 2023
Teaching Note

CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

By: Willy Shih

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-006. Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,... View Details

Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Ship Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Trade; Energy Conservation; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe

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November 1989
Case

Development and Production of Missiles and Ships

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Production; Planning

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03 Feb 2016
News

CargoMetrics Cracks the Code on Shipping Data

26 Nov 2013
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Managing People on a Sinking Ship

September 2010
Teaching Note

Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen

Teaching Note for 211014. View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Research; Service Operations; Customers; Price; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; New Jersey

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February 2023
Teaching Plan

Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry

By: Geoffrey Jones and Melanie Sheehan

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 805-141. View Details

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15 Jun 2022
News

New Shipping Legislation Targets Supply Chain Bottleneck

09 Mar 2022
Podcast

The Aspen Institute’s Shipping Decarbonization Initiative

Ingrid Irigoyen, Director of the Aspen Institute Shipping Decarbonization Initiative, discussesthe importance of decarbonizing global maritime shipping, the opportunities and challenges, andhow the Aspen Institute is working with Amazon, IKEA, Unilever, Michelin, and... View Details

09 Mar 2022
News

The Aspen Institute’s Shipping Decarbonization Initiative

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Zetwerk recognised as a rocket ship in a Harvard's professor report

May 2012 (Revised February 2015)
Case

Maersk Line and the Future of Container Shipping

By: Forest Reinhardt, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Frederik Nellemann

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Supply And Demand; Environment; Commodity; Natural Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Advantage; Shipping Industry

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April 2018 (Revised July 2018)
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Maersk: Betting on Blockchain

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is getting ready to debut a trade digitization platform. Maersk hopes the platform will help streamline global trade since shipping goods internationally is an extraordinarily complicated and inefficient process.... View Details