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- Portrait Project
Yushu Zhou
The fiftieth time my parents sent me off at the Shanghai Pudong Airport was also the first time I noticed from the view of their backs how much they had aged. My mind went blank, my body stopped moving, and my tears streamed down my face.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vysh Ravikumaran
My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift –... 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
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Porter Prize South Korea - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the inaugural Porter Prize for Excellence in CSV include: VATECH Ewoo Holdings The-K Yedaham Co.,Ltd. Army Cadet Military School Incheon International Airport Corporation Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency Schneider Electric Korea... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50101 Harvard Business School Case 715-449 TAV Airports Holding (A)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ceiling Unlimited
business aircraft. "I knew a little about airplanes but not much," Chen said. "It's different from all the things I did before." Today, located in a state-of-the-art facility at Long Beach Airport where it's a neighbor of aircraft giant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Touch Down
In September 2000, Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) took off from El Cajon, California, in an aging single-engine Cessna named Lucky Lady Too. Ten years later, this past January, he landed at the same airport after visiting all fifty U.S. states... View Details
Keywords: world records
- Portrait Project
Nelly-Ange Kontchou
soil for latching onto every crease of my clothing when we got home. It wouldn’t leave me be. Before the start of business school, I step off the plane at Douala International Airport and into the suffocating heat. As I look out the exit... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jamie Chang
suffer in numerous ways, and healing may simply involve playing a game, sharing a meal, or having a drink and a laugh. Healing can come from a friend who is there to listen, a mother's hug at the airport arrival gates, or a father with... View Details
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Kyle Bisutti
Responsibility: overseeing one-hundred employees building the thrust reversers that ensure the uneventful deceleration of aircraft on airport runways. With two summers at General Motors in Detroit, and six years at General Electric, Kyle... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
ethical behavior of management, for example,” explains Cameron, who is part owner of Blackbushe Airport in Surrey, England. “We have always supported HBS and believe we should give something back. The fund gives us the opportunity to say... View Details
- Portrait Project
Thomas Rajan
the marvel that is flight. This wonder has driven me thus far — from the little boy who often stared longingly through airport windows at planes soaring to parts unknown, to the determined professional who decided where in the world those... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
as a 15-year-old, put together the whole trip and make all the arrangements at the airport. In those days, you got your tickets either at the airport or on the phone. Nothing like today. I really got excited about that. AW: Tell me about... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
outsourcing for businesses. The Massachusetts Port Authority operates Logan International Airport, two regional airports in the Boston area, the Port of Boston, and the Tobin Memorial Bridge, which connects downtown with the northern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
to exercise. It was the key to his longevity, he said, along with lots of sleep and no alcohol or tobacco. He was known for walking from airports to downtown hotels and climbing the stairs in skyscrapers. He ran his first marathon, in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg