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Europe - Global

Electrifying Transportation in California and Germany By: Nicholas Goedeking and Jonas Meckling California and Germany share ambitious emission reduction targets. Yet California is ahead of Germany in electrifying View Details

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn

Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Massachusetts Lowell and was a scientist in the aerospace industry prior to attending HBS. Following a career as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant, she founded Circle of Life Partners, a network of clinical leaders,... View Details

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Receiving Aero / Auto / Transport Equipment 2% $150k 25th Percentile Base $155k Median $170k 75th Percentile Base $16k 55% Receiving N/A Cleantech <1% N/A N/A N/A Energy / Extractive Minerals 2% $138k 25th Percentile Base $150k Median... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(1) Technological Innovation (95) Technology Adoption (88) Technology Networks (4) Technology Platform (13) Technology (360) Television Entertainment (3) Theory (159) Time Management (11) Trademarks (1) Trade (21) Training (18)... View Details

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Health-Related Services 4% 3% 2% 3% 3% Investment Banking 3% 3% 4% 3% 3% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 4% 7% 8% 8% 6% Manufacturing 7% 4% 4% 5% 6% Aero / Auto / Transport Equipment 2% 1% 1% 1% 2% Cleantech <1% 0% <1% <1% <1% Energy /... View Details

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Yaoxin Ding

Yaoxin Ding was born in a small, underdeveloped town in southeast China. Attracted to mobility technology and driven by a desire to “build out the infrastructure” of towns like his own, he studied traffic and transportation engineering as... View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

To put structure on our problem, we introduce defense procurement into a trade network model and add a military contest externality to the national welfare function. In a simple two-country case, optimal export taxes depend on the... View Details

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from California but inexpensive manufactured... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Courses MOC Affiliate Network MOC Course at Harvard The New CEO Workshop MOC Course at Harvard MOC Course at Harvard Course... View Details

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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

By: Benjamin Edelman

The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry

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12 Oct 1999
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It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

the Puritan merchants of New England, they used their familial and religious connections to form a tight network of trustworthy relationships stretching over long distances. This kind of system for making credible business commitments is... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt) was a corporate advisory firm that generated insights by leveraging a unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the firm was under the leadership of... View Details

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is placed on exploring actual open innovation initiatives within Siemens and their outcomes. These include creating internal social- and knowledge-sharing networks and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

January 2010 (Revised August 2011)
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United Breaks Guitars

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

When social media propagate a complaint about poor customer service, an international media event ensues. How do viral videos spread and what can firms do about them? This case dissects an incident in which a disgruntled customer used YouTube and Twitter to spread a... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Service Delivery; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet; Air Transportation Industry

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November 2023 (Revised May 2024)
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Norse Atlantic Airways

By: Willy Shih

Bjørn Tore Larsen, Norse Atlantic Airways' founder and CEO, hadn't planned to get into the airline business. But when the COVID-19 pandemic depressed the global demand for air travel and the lease rates for jetliners, he realized if ever he was going to get into the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Leasing; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Interest Rates; Air Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; Norway; United Kingdom; United States

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April 2018 (Revised July 2018)
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Maersk: Betting on Blockchain

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is getting ready to debut a trade digitization platform. Maersk hopes the platform will help streamline global trade since shipping goods internationally is an extraordinarily complicated and inefficient process.... View Details