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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services industries, new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs were created.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
initiative. The Marriott program trains former welfare recipients and guarantees them jobs upon completion of their training. "The challenges of working with the unemployed has led the company to new insights about training, job placement, and supervision," says... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
time to increase customer satisfaction. New research suggests there's a better approach: showing customers a representation of the effort, whether literal or not, being expended on their behalf while they wait. (The prototypical example is the travel website Kayak,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
joining to simply find a job. The senior TSA staff and airlines are calling for accountability, but the person responsible for the breach is a passionate and valued employee who has been with TSA since its formation. As her shift... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
district on the HBS campus each summer. Most of the materials for the program are new cases we develop in urban school districts, along with a few classic business school cases such as Southwest Airlines and the New York City Police... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
will. Travelguru.com Ashwin Damera Venkata, MBA 2005 Jarad Fisher, MBA 2005 Travelguru.com will be India's first one-stop on-online travel portal (similar to Orbitz), which through the strength of its relationships with airline and hotel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally unattractive industry. A joke... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Eastern Airlines who became close to Doriot in the General’s later years. A wiry man with ramrod posture, Doriot was about 5’10”, with a thin moustache, elegant bearing, and piercing blue eyes. He spoke with a charming French accent that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Group between 2015 and late 2017 when it grew rapidly through global acquisitions to become 170 on the 2017 Fortune 500 list. A firm that had begun as a provincial airline in China was now a giant global conglomerate and suddenly the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
can the firm increase the sales of its products? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ministry-of-supply-will-professionals-demand-its-performance/an/814042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-024 Viva Macau (A) A fast-growing Macau-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso