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- 2021
- Working Paper
Accounting for Product Impact in the Airlines Industry
By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the airlines industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of fare...
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Keywords:
Product Innovation;
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG Ratings;
Social Corporate Responsibility;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Social Impact;
Aviation;
Product Design;
Product Positioning;
Society;
Product;
Environmental Sustainability;
Measurement and Metrics;
Framework;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Air Transportation;
Air Transportation Industry
Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Airlines Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-066, November 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- Web
Employment Data Trends
Health-Related Services 4% 3% 2% 3% 3% Investment Banking 3% 3% 4% 3% 3% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 4% 7% 8% 8% 6% Manufacturing 7% 4% 4% 5% 6% Aero / Auto / Transport Equipment 2% 1% 1% 1% 2% Cleantech <1% 0% <1% <1% <1% Energy /...
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- January 2002 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Renationalization of Railtrack?
Railtrack faces bankruptcy five years after its privatization. Railtrack's performance deteriorated since its privatization in 1996, exhibited by its weakening financial health, unsatisfactory services, poor safety record, and mismanaged investment program. In October...
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Keywords:
Rail Transportation;
Privatization;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
State Ownership;
Rail Industry;
United Kingdom
Dyck, Alexander, and Irina L. Christov. "Renationalization of Railtrack?" Harvard Business School Case 702-032, January 2002. (Revised July 2004.)
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American...
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- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
information systems. "We had so many people in the company who wanted to help but who weren't trained to help," Neeleman told the New York Times. "We had an emergency control center full of people who didn't know what to...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
from Colombia) and against the new Panamanian government (to get a better deal for the Panama Canal). The Colombians wanted to hold out until 1904 to make a deal with the United States to build a canal. The reason was that the properties of the failed French canal...
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- September 1992
- Case
International Airlines
A frequent flyer for a large international airline encounters typical but recurring service problems. The marketing management of the company explores the use of information technology in understanding and dealing with the issues involved. Concepts of database...
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Keywords:
Marketing Communications;
Information Technology;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Air Transportation Industry
Jones, Thomas O. "International Airlines." Harvard Business School Case 693-045, September 1992.
- April 1994 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
Vancom Transportation, Inc. (A)
Describes the history and evolution of a school/public bus transit company that has grown rapidly and successfully by gradually pushing responsibility and trust as far down the organizational ladder as possible. A real test comes however, in two major labor relations...
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Keywords:
Employee Relationship Management;
Business Strategy;
Labor and Management Relations;
Transportation Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Vancom Transportation, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-127, April 1994. (Revised December 1994.)
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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W. Earl Sasser
Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2021, over 60 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that...
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- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Supplement
OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In February 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian, celebrated the airline’s OneTen partnership in a room full of Atlanta’s prominent business leaders, educators, and public servants in Atlanta, at a OneTen/Delta Launch Event. To support...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Community Relations;
Race;
Leading Change;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States;
Atlanta
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-075, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
U.S. newspaper industry that others did not. The question facing Media General's CEO Marshall Morton was whether to accept the offer or not. As the head of a highly leveraged company whose revenues had fallen 31% in the past four years,...
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Anna Secino
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
ecosystem. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911066-PDF-ENG Cipla 2011 Rohit Deshpandé, Sandra J. Sucher, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 511-050 Dr. Yusuf Hamied, head of the Indian pharma and generics manufacturing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Business or Company Management (17) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (61) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change (113) Civil Society or Community (7) Cognition and...
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- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts....
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Keywords:
Startup;
Organizational Structure;
Nanotechnology;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Management Systems;
Commercialization;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
United States
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. More recently, some companies have begun advocating for government policies to address climate change. Electricity Shifting to sustainable electricity...
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- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying...
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- October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (M): MAX 8 Disasters (July 2019)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the October 2018 and March 2019 crashes of Boeing MAX 8 jets, which together killed over 300 passengers. The planes involved in both crashes shared a problem with a software system called MCAS, which Boeing had revamped at the last minute prior to...
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Keywords:
Airbus;
Boeing;
Product Development;
Product Design;
Air Transportation;
Projects;
Competition;
Safety;
Failure;
Air Transportation Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States;
Europe
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Airbus vs. Boeing (M): MAX 8 Disasters (July 2019)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-388, October 2019. (Revised June 2020.)