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Cyrus R. Smith
Praised by his employees at American, Smith led the passenger transport revolution in the airline industry. Under Smith’s guidance, American became the first airline to use the popular DC-3 planes in 1936,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
When I stepped down from Norfolk Southern after 45 years, I absolutely did not plan to take another job. I said no to Amtrak. Then they called again. I negotiated hard, obviously, for compensation. I’m making a dollar a year. . . . I think View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Airline Industry Program at MIT, an initiative examining how major commercial airline carriers are facing the challenges of their rapidly changing industry. Staying on top of an industry facing more regulation (including the Airline View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
transport (less than 1,000 pounds). That same year, he launched Micromobility Industries, a media company that hosts webinars and global conferences, from Amsterdam to Southern California, and publishes news and reviews about the latest... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
United Airlines’ April 2017 effort to remove passenger David Dao from his assigned seat. Five passenger videos show what happened in painful detail: When Dao wouldn’t leave, United personnel summoned airport... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
along with tall buildings and department stores. By 1902, electric trolleys were transporting 5 billion passengers a year. Investors in the new technology began to build longer electric lines, called... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
2,000 users, homing in on passenger usage data between January and November in 2018. After a rider had been active for three weeks, the authors tracked how—and, more important, when—customers used the service. The researchers then ranked... View Details
Carl R. Gray
Under Gray’s direction, Union Pacific Railroad became one of the few railroads in the nation to pay dividends on common stock during the Depression. During this time period, Gray also became a pioneer in the introduction of streamlined diesel-powered View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Donald W. Douglas
Douglas developed and built all types of military planes as well as civilian transport planes. The big breakthrough for Douglas came in the early 1930s when he introduced the DC series of planes. In 1935, Douglas introduced the DC-3,... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
almost half of its stock was acquired by the SairGroup, a unit of Swissair; as of last April, their stake in the airline climbed to 85 percent. The move to the private sector has Sabena flying high. Its number of passengers has doubled... View Details
Martin W. Clement
lines from New York City to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Harrisburg. At the end of World War II, Pennsylvania Railroad controlled 6% of the railway mileage in the U.S., but more than 20% of the nation’s passengers and 11% of... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
need arise.) Lyft plans to ease the rest of its 23 million passengers into the new model gradually, city by city. Here, Kapoor takes your questions about what a self-driving future might look like. Illustration by Matt Chinworth How does... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
changing, he says, but he believes it is “structurally more stable today than it has been in many years.” Here, Carty answers some of your questions and offers some insight into what the future holds. Why charge passengers for checked... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers taxi down the runway at London’s... View Details
Samuel Spencer
Spencer was the first president of the Southern Railway System, which was formed by the consolidation of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. During his tenure, the mileage of the Railway doubled, the number of View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
(via Bloomberg Technology) (via Bloomberg Technology) In an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Anthony Tan (MBA 2011) and Hooi Ling Tan (MBA 2011), the cofounders of Grab, chronicle the company’s explosive growth from an idea pitched at an HBS business plan... View Details