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  • 07 Dec 2014
  • News

The Hardest Job in Airlines: CEO of New Malaysian Air

Keywords: Mueller, Christoph; Air Transportation; Air Transportation
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan; Air Transportation
  • April 1980
  • Case

Triton Sailboat Co.

By: Francis Aguilar
Keywords: Transportation Industry
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  • January 1992
  • Teaching Note

Continental Carriers, Inc. (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-291-080). View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry; United States
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  • December 1984 (Revised May 1990)
  • Case

Tank Truck Rentals, Inc. vs. Commissioner

By: Henry B. Reiling
Keywords: Transportation Industry
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  • April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and F. Christopher Eaglin
SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa’s distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures, unsafe road practices and lack of government support, the taxi industry had grown to become South Africa’s... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; Race; Situation or Environment; Transportation Industry; South Africa; Africa
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  • October 2008 (Revised November 2008)
  • Teaching Note

The Hertz Corporation (A) (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [208030]. View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry
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  • December 1981
  • Case

Singapore Bus Service Ltd.

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Transportation Industry; Singapore
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  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

of algae biofuel, both a clean energy source for heavy transportation modules (trucks, planes, trains, and ships) and a carbon-catching technology. A MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO SOLVING THE WORLD’S WATER CRISISJennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA... View Details
  • October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
  • Technical Note

Flight: Now without Humans Aboard

By: Mitchell Weiss, Karim Lakhani, HT Kung and Kerry Herman
This note provides an overview of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) industry in September 2015. UAVs offered many potential applications in industries as diverse as aerial imaging and photography, agriculture, construction, infrastructure inspection and... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Drones; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Design; Research and Development; Technological Innovation; Rights; Ethics; Strategy; Transportation Networks; Market Entry and Exit; Innovation and Management; European Union; Asia; United States
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  • October 1991 (Revised August 1993)
  • Case

Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Burlington Northern (BN) hauls low-sulfur coal from the northern Great Plains to electric utilities in the Midwest. Acid rain legislation may affect the geographic scope of BN's markets. Railroad managers need to assess the economic effects of acid rain controls and... View Details
Keywords: Rail Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Policy; Metals and Minerals; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Rail Industry; United States
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  • 11 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options

U.S. Ambassador and Bulgarian Ministry of Justice. I examined the root-causes of the Bulgarian banking crisis, summarized my findings in a seminal analytical report and investigated viable opportunities for American foreign investments in the Bulgarian View Details
  • 24 Feb 2016
  • News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • News

Making Sense of Uber’s $40 Billion Valuation

Keywords: valuation; livery services; disruptive innovation; financial markets; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Massport, Back on Course

Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a Massachusetts company... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Rent Out Your Ride

CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked and unused. As an HBS student... View Details
Keywords: car sharing; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

    Frederick D. Underwood

    When Underwood took over management of the Erie Railroad in 1901, it was barely surviving. Though its owner, JP Morgan had brought the company’s debt within a manageable range, the road itself had suffered much deterioration. Undertaking such innovative improvements as... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation

      Ernest E. Norris

      Norris began his career in the telegraph industry, but always intended to lead the Southern Railway System. When he finally assumed the position, Norris expanded Southern Railway through solid, traditional business principles, but also through his championing of the... View Details
      Keywords: Transportation

        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 passenger trains.... View Details
        Keywords: Transportation

          Jack Frye

          In 1935, Frye began to experiment with high-altitude flying, and by 1940, Trans-World Airlines had a fleet of Boeing Stratocruisers built to cruise at high altitude. In 1944, Frye flew from Burbank, California to Washington D.C. in a Lockheed Constellation, a triple... View Details
          Keywords: Transportation