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  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft Engines, Power Systems, View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
  • 17 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

behavior would not sit well at the annual industry association meeting and your holier-than-thou superiority claim might tempt fate and attract a terrorist attack. If anything, safety is downplayed as pre-flight instructions to airline... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Web

The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet - Blog - Business & Environment

capturing milligrams of CO in a lab at ETH Zurich. Their first small-scale direct air capture plant came online in 2014—and they’ve been scaling at a fast pace ever since. Last year, the Energy and Environment Club visited Orca, their... View Details
  • April 1998 (Revised May 2001)
  • Supplement

Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (B), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett
Eight days after CSX announced it was going to buy Consolidated Rail (Conrail) for $88.65 per share, Norfolk Southern made a hostile $100 per share bid for Conrail. Over the next several months, the potential acquirers upped their bids while exchanging criticism in the... View Details
Keywords: Law; Valuation; Rail Transportation; Bids and Bidding; Governance Controls; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry; United States
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  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

surrounded by an expanding ring of residential and industrial growth. And finally, the scrambled egg—a delicious mess but a mess nonetheless: the modern city, sprawling with opportunity, technology, and confusion. “Somehow,” Mostafavi... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
  • Web

Multimedia Development | Information Technology

by students. Our products are designed to be used on all devices—smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, and laptops—as well as in the classroom. Multimedia cases are a breath of fresh air for students with rich AV and the unique... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Peter W. Olson: By the Book

world literature, including Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. In a volatile industry known for the intelligence, passion, and eccentricity of its publishers, Olson emphasizes the importance of face-to-face meetings over... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
  • June 1991
  • Case

Continental Carriers, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A U.S. trucking company is considering using debt for the first time to acquire another company. The directors of the company are divided in their opinion of the likely impact of leverage on Continental Carriers' performance. Their differences must be reconciled and a... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Transportation Industry; United States
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  • September 2019 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Port Competition in the Pearl River Delta

By: Willy Shih
This case examines the competition between ports and port operators in the Pearl River Delta over the last four decades. The cities surrounding the Pearl River estuary are the "workshop of the world," and the development of manufacturing in the region was heavily... View Details
Keywords: Trade Links; Global Business; Globalization; Trade; Supply Chain; Logistics; Transportation Industry; Asia; Hong Kong; China
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  • June 2011
  • Supplement

Indian Railways: Building a Permanent Legacy (B)?

By: Aldo Musacchio, Tarun Khanna and Rachna Tahilyani
Supplement to case 710008. View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry; India
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  • December 2001 (Revised March 2002)
  • Teaching Note

Poland's A2 Motorway TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-202-030). View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry; Poland
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  • July 2000
  • Teaching Note

U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc. TN

By: John A. Davis and Sharon Peyus
Teaching Note for (9-800-049). View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry
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  • Web

Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

included, and the amounts must be calculated into U.S. dollars. The traveler can be reimbursed for these expenses after the trip has occurred and upon presentation of appropriate documentation. Airline & Train Expenses Airline tickets must be purchased for... View Details
  • June 2009
  • Case

Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza

In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Logistics; Supply Chain; Transportation; Distribution Industry; Zaragoza
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  • Profile

Brendan Mosher

Raytheon, helping the Transportation Security Administration ramp up the roll-out of whole body imagers, in the wake of the attempted "underwear bombing" in Chicago. "In one year," Brendan notes, "the program... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

When James Correa was coming to the conclusion of his military service as a logistics officer (Captain) in the US Army, "There was only one desire for a professional career that I was sure of -- to continue a career in leadership." With no particular View Details
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

to net zero by 2050. One example of an existing technology that can put a big dent in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and View Details