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05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the business units, focusing on GE Transportation as it launches a series of groundbreaking, green products—from the Evolution Locomotive to the Hybrid Locomotive. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

the chance to establish personal relationships and converse about business.” Giacomin notes that at a time when communication and transportation were still slow and unpredictable, managers working abroad needed to be independent, adept,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

parts supply & logistics, FAPA, worked with his colleagues in the U.S., UK, China, and India to conduct analysis and develop three options: outsourcing e-coating to a third party in Sanand, outsourcing e-coating to a third-party in Chennai and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2014 (Revised January 2015)
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Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones

The case builds on the earlier (A) case, which described the origins of the Turkish business group established by Vehbi Koç before 1988. This case takes the story forward to 2012 as the Koç group was led by Vehbi's son Rahmi followed by his grandson Mustafa. It... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship; Management; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Middle East

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January 1994 (Revised April 1995)
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The early 1990s saw a new wave of start-ups in the U.S. airline business. One entrant, Kiwi International Air Lines, took to the skies in September 1992 with a strategy of attracting small-business travelers looking to save money but lacking the flexibility to book in... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Advantage; Business Startups; Air Transportation Industry; Air Transportation Industry

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12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from China that we see as unfairly... View Details

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

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Transportation with TransLoc? No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-058 OldTown Berhad In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

continued, suggesting the creation of the equivalent of the National Transportation Safety Board for examining financial crises in a technical, determined way. Finance as a profession does not look bright, he acknowledged. It will be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

March 2020
Article

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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May 20, 2016
Comment

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

By: John A. Quelch

When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details

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18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in markets such as California where regulation, derived from a state law designed to manage climate change,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's anti-gay laws; difficulties with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

Business School Case 713-039 Keystone XL Pipeline On January 18, 2012, President Obama rejected TransCanada's application for a "national interest" determination to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL was a 1,700 mile long, 36-inch... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

Central Asia to Europe for the first time, which would diversify supply sources. At the same time, an Italian-Russian consortium announced South Stream natural gas pipeline, which would diversify transport routes for the delivery of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

(www.icic.org), has shown that inner cities have advantages in terms of proximity to transportation infrastructure, unmet market needs, lower employee turnover and much more. Have you seen a growing awareness of the potential of urban... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

varieties, we show that there is no pure strategy symmetric price equilibrium in general (for n > 2 with linear transportation costs). In turn, if the limitation on the number of varieties consumers purchase comes from a budget... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Transformation is being driven by three independent trends: the emergence of affordable electric vehicles, the development of autonomous vehicles, and the growth of modernized ride sharing. When integrated, these trends create a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

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First Look: September 5, 2007

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

First Look: April 1

Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)

Judo Economics

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

First Look: February 18

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

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First Look: April 26

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

First Look: April 14, 2009

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Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

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