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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
babies on the “no fly” list. It’s searches and racial profiling at airport security. It’s suspicious looks from neighbors. We experience this where we work and live. And then we turn on the nightly news and we see hatred, like the pastor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the business, hiking out to Kuala... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
whether people will let him cut in line at the airport for a $10 bribe. These experiments are proving integral in learning not only what makes people tick but also how that matters for business. "Over the last decade, scholars and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes.” Marrying flight and patent data Choudhury and colleagues examined flights from every airport worldwide—5,015 in all—between 2005 and 2015.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Airport in two hours. “It wouldn’t go well,” he says. About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
early to cope with time zone challenges or living in airports sometimes being 50 percent of a manager’s time. “It comes as no surprise that so many managers are overwhelmed and burned out these days.” Many companies are working overtime... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
them with questions: Is this terrorism? Are more planes on the way? Are the airports closed? Should we close the tunnels? The mayor also wanted to talk to the White House. As I handed him the phone, saying, ‘Vice President Cheney is... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida movie set in the middle of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
operates on a strategy of low costs, low fares, full planes, and rapid turnarounds to keep those planes in the air, thus reducing the cost of an airline’s most costly asset. It fills (often secondary) airports so successfully that there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
half-asleep, strapped into a jump seat in a blacked-out C-130. Approaching Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), the plane suddenly started diving and twisting — I was sure we’d been hit. Later, I learned that it was just standard,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
there on time. One of the things Sender likes to do as CEO is visit the airports. She's looking for the length of the lines, the number of people using the self-check-in services, how the employees are interacting with the customers. At a recent visit to the View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
important role of the infrastructure provision in any economy and how it shapes economic activity. Infrastructure includes everything from roads and airports to trains and broadband communication. We want to understand the impact for how... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to open in April 1998, and the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and embarrassing international... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
you can't create multiple Nomas. Obviously, there are some restaurant chains that do that, like Danny Meyer, but after awhile Danny Meyer is an investor, not the chef, and René would not like to do that—he likes to cook. Norton: Look at it as a continuum, where one end... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
supplement:http://hbr.org/search/312129-PDF-ENG Switzerland: Foreign Pressure and Direct Democracy Julio J. Rotemberg and Jonathan Naharro MartinHarvard Business School Case 712-053 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne