Publications

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

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

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

system, transportation infrastructure, and healthcare. Business leaders have grown increasingly pessimistic and aren’t expecting much of an uptick in the near future. Fifty percent of those surveyed expect US competitiveness to decline in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

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

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

01 Dec 2007
News

Mead Treadwell

existing technology and today’s ice conditions, an Institute of the North study demonstrates that bringing a container from Europe to Asia viathe northern route could well be competitive with the $1,500 per container charged by shipping companies for View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Transportation; Transportation; Transportation; Transportation

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

coverage—and improve the quality of care. Insurers could also offer plans that would be politically unfeasible for the public option. For example, private insurers can offer policies that transport members from high-cost locations for... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

beverage business incubator when it opens later this year. Located right next to a public transportation stop, the new facility will spur economic activity in one of Chicago’s highest need neighborhoods, East Garfield Park on Chicago’s... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

decades and accounts for roughly 5 percent of domestic US oil production. However, it's not particularly environmentally friendly: EOR companies mostly tap naturally occurring fields of CO2, transport the gas to the mature oil fields, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

April 2024
Case

Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly, Nitin Nohria and Emilie Billaud

When he became CEO, facing limited growth prospects, a low valuation, and therefore a stagnating share price, Menegaux and his team launched a set of initiatives to reposition Michelin. These included (1) articulating a clear purpose (“We care about giving people a... View Details

October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
Case

eShip-4U

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter

eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Israel; United States

October 1982 (Revised December 1984)
Case

Air Traffic Controllers (Condensed)

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Government Administration; Labor and Management Relations; Human Resources; Management; Air Transportation Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States