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- April 2018
- Case
Miami's Tech Future (Abridged): Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Leadership Challenges
By the middle of the 1990s, Miami’s reputation was changing. An influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants and major investments in the airport and seaport had changed the image of a sleepy southern city to the de facto business center of Latin America, a center for... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a vehicle shaped like a segment of a... View Details
- Research Summary
Airline Schedule Disruptions
Increasing congestion and frequent schedule disruptions throughout the National Air Transportation System, both at airports and en route, have led to significant flight and passenger delays. Professor Fearing's primary research focus is on measuring and reducing... View Details
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality
In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
- October 2007
- Article
The Art of Designing Markets
By: Alvin E. Roth
Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Roth, Alvin E. "The Art of Designing Markets." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 118–126.
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
He lied to cover lies; he forged documents, misled auditors, and made false statements to try to hide his mounting losses. Eventually, he arrived at his moment of reckoning. He was arrested at the airport in Germany, having fled his home... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
carrier in 1929. The company changed its name and moved to Atlanta in 1941, just in time to get lucrative World War II contracts that fueled its first expansion. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, where Delta is headquartered, has been the world’s busiest View Details
- Profile
Chris Aguemon
about your hometown? I won’t call Loudoun County, VA a small place necessarily but where I grew up has a small town feel with local foods, a historic downtown all while still having access to major airports and a major city in Washington... View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
airport continued to load flights and allow them to taxi to the runway. But conditions didn't clear as expected, and some passengers waited for as long as six hours to return to an open gate. (Planes continued to land in the poor weather;... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Grushka-Cockayne says. “It’s still a numbers game. It’s a challenging thing to convey, so practicing with good visualizations and conveying the visualizations is something we think is key.” In practice at Heathrow Grushka-Cockayne has another paper out, Forecasting... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
that's no different than in [the U.S.]," said Hayes. Personal staff can be very influential and should not be underestimated, he continued. The man who meets you at the airport or who chats you up in a company's waiting room may turn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
Head of Global Energy Group, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) 2002 Named Global Head, CSFB Investment Banking Division 2004 Named CSFB Chief Client Officer 2006 Launches Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) 2009 GIP acquires Gatwick View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
from the university attend, and they're able to raise their family here. And additionally, I think in 10 years, I see our airport thriving. It may not be commercial traffic, it could be general aviation, it could be a hub-and-spoke for... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
"stop" or "go." "Press or say one" menu commands are another obvious application. In these contexts, people are delighted with a crummy voice-recognition product. Another good market for the technology may be all those executives you see... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
about meeting customer expectations, providing value, or generating good functionality. Instead, they are more often about encountering an unexpected problem: A consumer heads to an Apple store with a broken iPhone. An airline customer arrives at the View Details
- 15 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead
directly from the airport to catch our Section J dance at Ekta, the annual HBS South Asian show. There was also the time when Professor Jon Jachimowicz sat and listened to me agonize over my summer internship choices and gave me valuable... View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
was accepted: sitting on the floor of the LAX airport (1/10 do not recommend). I was blown away. First, by amazement that Harvard Business School chose me out of all the incredible choices. Second, by the slightly panicked feeling of how... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
marketing thing for your target audience, but nobody’s going to drive their kids around in a car with suicide doors.” Team Pan Am sought to revive the brand of the beloved but defunct airline with Worldport, a line of hotels named after a mid-century View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
Angela, she won’t identify the foreignness that’s in my Korean name, Noori. I also make a mental note to ask my mom for a sandwich tomorrow instead of the kimchi fried rice I had been hiding in my lunch bag. — Many years later, I encounter a security guard at the View Details