Passenger Flow Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

When news broke March 24 that a young co-pilot for Lufthansa's low cost-airline Germanwings had intentionally crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others, people struggled for answers. What would make... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

June 2020
Supplement

TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher

This courseware accompanies the case "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Valuation; Negotiation; Cash Flow; Contracts; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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Danny Cho

heard of a cash flow statement in my life to performing due diligence on potential acquisition targets, assisting seasoned General Managers in go-to-market strategies, and launching a new business model. I... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

investment against cash flow to survive in a highly cyclical business. Such skills are usually transferable to new environments—and are the most portable type of human capital other than general management... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

and Norfolk Southern. Today, by most measures, freight rail is doing better than ever, while passenger rail faces significant challenges-though it is clear that numerous pain points and bottlenecks interfere with optimal use of rail to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

2011
Working Paper

Embracing Paradox

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith and Andy Binns

Trying to resolve the paradox between innovation and the core business only weakens the CEO and dooms the company. Exceptional leaders embrace tensions associated with exploiting prior strategies even as they explore into the future. View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Conflict of Interests; Business Strategy

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10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they are built and cultivated, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2000
News

Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how well an operation fits their... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

non-entrepreneurial courses. Maybe I'd learn how to discount a cash flow (what was a cash flow, anyway?) or how to read a balance sheet. I wasn't sure how much of "general management" would apply to what I'd done, or what I... View Details

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Amy Sennett

especially for the poorest of the poor at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid.” As vice chair of the Club’s Microfinance and Social Investment Group, she “looks at ways global capital can flow to places where it can have make a social... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Shareholders' Value?

Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one... View Details

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

you ought to own or employ everything you need. For example, good entrepreneurial firms often hire the most specialized talent on a temporary basis. The fifth, managing through networked relationships, contrasts with the old paradigm that... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first privately owned TV channel in post-Communist Czechoslovakia, few... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

strategy can stretch an agency’s core capabilities and push it in unintended directions. If a nonprofit doesn’t develop (its) operating mission and strategy platform in a disciplined way, its management tends to think every program is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

strategy, thus earning higher returns themselves—to the detriment of the rest of the market, which was not privy to the leak. “It’s a huge issue, because it hurts the investors who try to implement their investment ideas and puts the smaller asset View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

for compensation committees at public companies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109036 Hearts on Fire—Brand Development Manager Harvard Business School Case 709-436... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is... View Details

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