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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
of parameters a way to integrate financial and impact management. Meridiam Infrastructure Africa: Madagascar Airports (218068) by Shawn Cole and Lynn Schenk FEBRUARY 2018 (REVISED DECEMBER 2019) This case examines an asset class critical...
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- 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...
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- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
means for them (Do I need to take an umbrella? How many diners will my restaurant get tomorrow? Should I close the airport ramp today and prepare for de-icing?). What part of your role is different from what you imagined it might be? The...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsJetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport Douglas Fearing and Robert S. HuckmanHarvard Business School Case 612-028 The case explores...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
mostly involving ground facilities and processes. This note provides an overview of the history and current state of air transportation in the U.S., covering industry costs; types of airlines, including passenger and cargo (e.g., Delta, Southwest, Alaska, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales approaching $2 billion. View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
arrange the greatest possible number of transplants. In the future, computers may make it possible to auction bundled goods, such as airport takeoff and landing slots. As online markets—like those for jobs and dating—proliferate, a...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
billion in projects that include Gatwick Airport and the Port of Melbourne. “You should always be inquisitive and progressing in your career,” he says, describing this latest chapter as “a tremendous amount of fun.” Why HBS? “I dropped...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a two-lane road between the airport and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel from Boston’s Logan View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
other every day for the last thirty years. Anyway, when I called him in New York, he just was beside himself. When he later learned there would be a reception for me at HBS that day, he wanted to get to Boston as quickly as possible. He couldn't find a taxi to the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
encompasses housing, water, transportation, and environmental priorities. Aside from downtown Colombo, the plan proposes a business park adjacent to the airport as well as a ring of clustered mini cities around the capital, each with a...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
a little bit too intrusive. But I found that the gentleman that time was having a vacation in France. So that day I said, "Good. I have to go. I have to find Tim because he is close by." Morrell: So on June 2017, Piero calls Tim's mobile number. Tim Perzyk: I was in an...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
of, like, when you actually make the leap. And so I was in that limbo for a long time and met an entrepreneur who told me that he thought of making the leap in terms of an airport runway. And he said when you're flying a plane, you're...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a...
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by Deborah Blagg