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- 25 Apr 2014
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Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
lot of females in the aviation community, but there's a lot of opportunity," says Eaton, a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft pilot. She imparts her message of possibility everywhere she has the opportunity, from Girl Scout troop meetings... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish fellowships at HBS, Norm Liu (MBA 1982), the retired CEO of GE... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
travelers with the promise of private-flight amenities without the costs of ownership. Most of those startups have pursued a shared charter model—an Uber-like, asset-light approach at odds with most successful aviation business models.... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 14 Mar 2019
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How Boeing Should Have Responded to the 737 Max Safety Crisis
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he chaired its advisory... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
and former Managing Partner, Venrock Associates Take flight: “I soloed in a single-engine airplane at the age of 14, at a crazy place on Long Island called the Aviation Club. It was a dirt airstrip with telephone poles all around the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Marquis Jet Takes Off
aircraft and 2,800 pilots. Marquis Jet’s customers, in effect, would be buying flight time on NetJets’ planes. Simple as it may sound, the Marquis Jet concept created a new niche in the staid aviation business. Heretofore, private-jet... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
buying bioplastics, and more and more airlines are doing the same with Sustainable Aviation Fuel. New regulations and financial reporting rules are being drafted to force companies to disclose climate risks they face. The investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
Flying has it all — science, freedom, beauty, and adventure,” says Robert A. Hamilton (MBA 1985), by way of quoting Charles Lindbergh. “I wholeheartedly agree.” These days, Hamilton is getting huge doses of those four elements at Seattle Avionics, the start-up View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
come to cherish, Feagler completed pilot training in Pensacola, Florida, graduating at the top of his class. He then began duty with an aviation squadron based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, near Seattle. Between the squadron’s... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
same opportunities she had. "As a sales person, I'm always asking something of people. I have to give back to the community," she says. She currently devotes time to serve on the board of the Eastern Regional Helicopter Council and several View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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A Club for the Cosmos
It is also a way to attract sponsors—necessary because the group charges no membership fees. “Innovation and reinvention are imperative for everything we will do,” he says. “We will provide our members access to world-class resources, knowledge, and experience in both... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 08 Jan 2025
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Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and cash-flow problems, Eclipse View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate
airlines’ transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), for example, and incentivizing greener options for airport transport, whether that’s an Uber, HOV, or a Logan Express bus. “We think about our airport as an ecosystem, where the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Ian Walsh
members of the Class of 1989 who spent part of their summers training to be officers - and eventually aviators - in the U.S. Marine Corps. Their choices, however, were quite in keeping with family tradition: their father had been an... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White