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- May 2011
- Supplement
TSA: An Overview
By: Michel Anteby
Video of Federal Security Director at Logan Airport and Deputy Assistant Federal Security Director discussing TSA operations.
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Keywords:
Air Transportation;
Operations;
Safety;
Business and Government Relations;
Air Transportation Industry;
Boston
Anteby, Michel. "TSA: An Overview." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 411-707, May 2011.
- June 2002
- Case
Southwest Airlines in Baltimore
By: Rogelio Oliva, Jody Hoffer Gittell and David Lane
The number of connecting passengers through Southwest Airlines' Baltimore station has grown 100% CAGR since 1997. Originally designed as a point-to-point network, this load of connecting passengers has been stressing Baltimore ground operations, resulting in an erosion...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Growth Management;
Air Transportation;
Service Operations;
Air Transportation Industry;
Maryland
Oliva, Rogelio, Jody Hoffer Gittell, and David Lane. "Southwest Airlines in Baltimore." Harvard Business School Case 602-156, June 2002.
- 2017
- Government Testimony
Passenger Right to Record—Petition for Rulemaking
By: Benjamin Edelman and Mike Borsetti
We ask DOT to affirm that passengers have the right to record what they lawfully see and hear on and around aircraft. We explain why such recordings are in the public interest, and we present the troubling experiences of passengers who have tried to record but have...
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Keywords:
Aviation;
Consumer Protection;
Recording;
Video;
Audio;
Privacy;
Social Media;
Air Transportation;
Rights;
Contracts;
Air Transportation Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Mike Borsetti. "Passenger Right to Record—Petition for Rulemaking." Government Testimony, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, June 2017. (docket and public comments.)
- October 2019
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (H): Wing Cracks and Battery Fires (2013)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes an issue with the batteries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner planes overheating and sometimes catching fire in 2013. The planes were grounded for several months until Boeing introduced new safety measures. The case also discusses a problem with cracks on...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Air Transportation;
Projects;
Competition;
Safety;
Air Transportation Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States;
Europe
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Airbus vs. Boeing (H): Wing Cracks and Battery Fires (2013)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-383, October 2019.
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
previous World Cup and Olympic hosts. But the country's lack of transportation alternatives—particularly a useful rail system—has also put an extraordinarily heavy burden on the airlines to move fans to disparate match sites. "I don't...
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- 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 aviation...
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- December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?
Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe...
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Keywords:
Private Ownership;
National Security;
Air Transportation;
State Ownership;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Dyck, Alexander, and Mehmet Beceren. "Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?" Harvard Business School Case 702-021, December 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA...
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- July 2006
- Case
Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Joseph S. Valacich, Mara Vatz and Christoph Schneider
Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability.
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Keywords:
Air Transportation;
Business Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Service Operations;
Air Transportation Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Joseph S. Valacich, Mara Vatz, and Christoph Schneider. "Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage." Harvard Business School Case 807-011, July 2006.
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Fettered Flight: Globalization and the Airline Industry
By: Richard H. K. Vietor, Daniel Yergin and Peter C. Evans
- December 1974 (Revised February 1985)
- Case
Southwest Airlines (A)
Southwest Airlines, a small intrastate carrier serving Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, begins service in 1971 in the face of competition by two larger, entrenched airlines. Improved quality service, lower prices, and innovative advertising and promotional strategy...
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Lovelock, Christopher H. "Southwest Airlines (A)." Harvard Business School Case 575-060, December 1974. (Revised February 1985.)
- August 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
T.G.S. Transportation: Battery Electric or Hydrogen?
By: Willy C. Shih
Peter Schneider, the President of T.G.S. Transportation, Inc., faced a choice. His company operated drayage trucks that moved containerized cargo between the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland to customers across the State of California, with a focus on the...
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Keywords:
Decarbonization;
Clean Technology;
Energy;
Energy Policy;
Renewable Energy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Truck Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
United States;
California
Shih, Willy C. "T.G.S. Transportation: Battery Electric or Hydrogen?" Harvard Business School Case 624-032, August 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
- June 1975
- Case
Marsh & McLennan (B)
Presents the results of a computer simulation of aircraft hull insurance. Discussion will focus on the interpretation of the results described. Designed to be handed out in class. Rewrite of an earlier supplement by P. Vatter.
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Jackson, Barbara B. "Marsh & McLennan (B)." Harvard Business School Case 175-290, June 1975.
- April 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
AirTex Aviation
By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
Two young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. As a case in control systems, there is ample detail for a discussion of design issues, control of independent profit centers,...
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Keywords:
Air Transportation;
Management Systems;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Air Transportation Industry
Hall, Brian J., and Carleen Madigan. "AirTex Aviation." Harvard Business School Case 800-269, April 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
- August 2019
- Case
Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?
By: Willy Shih and Esel Çekin
This case describes the evolution of Kazakhstan's rail connectivity strategy post-collapse of the Soviet Union and its now central role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. This meant shifting from a north-south orientation towards an east-west one, as well as the...
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Keywords:
Geopolitics;
China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative;
Logistics;
Trade;
Economic Growth;
Geopolitical Units;
Geography;
Rail Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Central Asia;
Kazakhstan;
China
Shih, Willy, and Esel Çekin. "Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?" Harvard Business School Case 620-020, August 2019.
Malcolm P. McLean
McLean revolutionized the centuries-old shipping industry by developing the first safe, reliable, and cost-effective approach to transporting containerized cargo. By pioneering containerized shipping, McLean soon dominated the shipping...
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Keywords:
Transportation
- July 2000 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Gustavo A. Herrero and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Embraer is the story of a company from a developing country, Brazil, that has become the leader in a high-tech field, regional passenger jets. Embraer's first family of regional jets has been highly successful and, at the time of the case, it is embarking on a major...
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Keywords:
Air Transportation;
Capital Structure;
Corporate Strategy;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Air Transportation Industry;
Brazil
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets". Harvard Business School Case 701-006, July 2000. (Revised June 2009.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
When I stepped down from Norfolk Southern after 45 years, I absolutely did not plan to take another job. I said no to Amtrak. Then they called again. I negotiated hard, obviously, for compensation. I’m making a dollar a year. . . . I think passenger rail View Details
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April White
- March 2024
- Case
Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Argentina. It highlights Argentina's economic and political transformation in the decades leading up to 2024. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles faced by businesses operating...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Transformation;
Economy;
Air Transportation;
Air Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Argentina;
Latin America;
Buenos Aires
MacCormack, Alan D., Nori Gerardo Lietz, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Karina Souza, and Zeke Gillman. "Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 324-108, March 2024.