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April 1994 (Revised December 1994)
Case

Vancom Transportation, Inc. (A)

Describes the history and evolution of a school/public bus transit company that has grown rapidly and successfully by gradually pushing responsibility and trust as far down the organizational ladder as possible. A real test comes however, in two major labor relations... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Business Strategy; Labor and Management Relations; Transportation Industry

August 1997 (Revised October 1997)
Case

TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (B): PT TNT Logistik Indonesia

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Transportation Industry; Asia; China; Thailand; Indonesia

January 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Google Car

By: Karim R. Lakhani, James Weber and Christine Snively

By 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the... View Details

Keywords: Digital Services; Innovation; Technology; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Transportation; Auto Industry; United States

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron Energy Natron... View Details

27 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

reminder that the brunt of climate change will be borne by the poorest, most vulnerable members of society. Visit to JSW Steel and Decarbonization in the Steel Industry Our team’s research topic was decarbonization in the steel industry.... View Details

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of a typical industry, or at least... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

Web

Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

farmers, academics, policy makers, and social service organizations. “We’re seeing a movement to rethink what we are doing as a food industry and as consumers,” says José Alvarez, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who was once... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

existing corporate transport and storage partners to implement a new strategy of moving bulk produce to remote areas, as well as serving its traditional outlets. SecondBite also found different ways to serve food to people in isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on development and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

June 2009
Case

Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza

In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Logistics; Supply Chain; Transportation; Distribution Industry; Zaragoza

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

York; and Washington, D.C. Cleantech venture capital Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) Eco Mobilite Partners, SNCF Paris Transportation Craig Huff (MBA 1993) Reservoir Capital Group LLC New York Private equity Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982) General... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

deployed as a platoon leader in Vietnam, to visit him on his birthday,” says Quainton. “He arranged to transport [his son] to the Command Ship for a surprise lunch, and then returned him to the jungle of DaNang.” The next day, Quainton... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

June 2022
Teaching Plan

Lifebank Nigeria

By: Brian Trelstad, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal

The aspiration of addressing maternal deaths in Nigeria, which were mostly caused by blood shortages, led Temie Giwa-Tubosun to found LifeBank in 2015. LifeBank developed an online platform that enabled hospitals to connect and purchase blood from local blood banks and... View Details

Keywords: Systems Design; Social Business; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Health Care; Blood; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Health Industry; Health Industry; Africa; Nigeria

December 2014 (Revised February 2016)
Case

Group Functions at the Maersk Group

By: David Collis and Matthew Shaffer

In 2014, seven years after he was appointed CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Møller Maersk (the Maersk Group), Nils Andersen was reexamining the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate."... View Details

Keywords: Maersk; Business Units; Conglomerates; Decentralization; Core Business; Value Added; Synergy; Headquarters; Shipping; Petroleum; Oil And Gas; Drilling; Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Denmark