Publications

July 1993 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Swissair's Alliances (A); Swissair's Alliances (B) TN

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for (9-794-152) and (9-794-153). View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

November 1986 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Vought Aero Products: Factory of the Future

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Production; Strategy; Air Transportation Industry

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August 1977
Teaching Note

Eastern Airlines: December Schedule, Teaching Note

By: Daryl D Wyckoff and Steven Wheelwright

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

February 1987 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Honeywell Commercial Aviation Division (B)

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

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November 1986 (Revised December 1986)
Supplement

People Express, Supplement

Brings the history of People Express up to the summer of 1986. Raises the question of whether its innovative human resource policies were successful pr problematic. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Human Resources; Air Transportation Industry

July 1998
Supplement

United Airlines: The Friendly Skies, Video

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

01 Jun 1999
News

Ian Walsh

and hidden missile sites. About ten miles from O'Grady's last known position, Walsh recalls, "My copilot and I suddenly heard the downed airman's voice and code name over our radio." Moments later, the two transport choppers were on the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

one Fred Smith, the young CEO of Federal Express, who had been required under previous regulation to use small, inefficient aircraft to transport freight or else submit to stringent government regulation. It was regarded by Congress as an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2016 (Revised October 2018)
Case

LabCDMX: Experiment 50

By: Mitchell Weiss and Maria Fernanda Miguel

There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Experimentation; Lean Startup; Government; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Open Data; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Government Administration; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Mexico City; Mexico

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Background Note

Coming of the Railroads

Makes possible a discussion of the growth of the railroads in the nineteenth century and the impact of that growth on the American economy. View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Macroeconomics; Rail Industry; United States

April 2016
Supplement

Preparing a Concession Bid at TAV Airports Holding

By: C. Fritz Foley and Çiğdem Çelik

In 2013, TAV Airports Holding prepared a bid for the concession to build and operate the third Istanbul airport. This process involved input from various parts of the firm with operating and financial expertise. Burcu Geriş, the CFO of TAV Airports Holding, and her... View Details

Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure Development; Equity Cash Flows; Capital Budgeting; Valuation; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Air Transportation Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Turkey

June 21, 2017
Article

Uber Can't Be Fixed—It's Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

By: Benjamin G. Edelman

I argue that Uber's intentional malfeasance is its comparative advantage. But having grown through intentional illegality, Uber should face strict enforcement of applicable preexisting laws—penalties that would probably bankrupt the company. View Details

Keywords: Lawfulness; Laws and Statutes; Legal Liability; Law; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry

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12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Air Transportation; Air Transportation; Air Transportation; Air Transportation; Air Transportation; Air Transportation

September 2019
Supplement

Hidrovias do Brasil – Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives

By: Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Transportation Industry; Brazil

September 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform

By: Chiara Farronato, Stefano Denicolai and Sarah Mehta

Telepass, until very recently the sole processor of electronic toll payments on Italy’s highways, has ambitions beyond tolling. Since the mid-2010s, the company has been expanding into adjacent services. In 2017, Telepass launched TelepassPay—a mobile payment... View Details

January 2022
Teaching Note

Mobileye 2021: Robotaxi and/or Consumer AV?

By: David B. Yoffie

The Mobileye 2021 case is a strategy case developed for the Strategy & Technology course, which is a second year elective at Harvard Business School. The primary purpose of the case is to teach the framework, “Look Forward, Reason Back,” which is described in David... View Details

Keywords: Technology Companies; Robotics; Autonomous Vehicles; Strategy; Decision Making; Transportation; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Israel