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Juan T. Trippe
Known for his sharp negotiating skills, Trippe built PanAm into the world’s only truly global air carrier. Trippe’s success at PanAm was due in large part to his cooperation with different branches of national governments, winning large...
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Transportation
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and...
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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
issues." In some lines of work in which the public is put at risk —such as air travel or police service—regular mental health testing may be warranted, says Quelch. In those cases, employers should look into finding the most effective...
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- August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States
By: Laura Alfaro, Mauricio Larrain, Carlos Vilches and Sarah Jeong
On May 26, 2020, Latam Airlines became the largest airline in the world to be driven to bankruptcy by COVID-19. With a complex debt structure and international investor composition, the company decided to file for bankruptcy protection in the United States, which...
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Airlines;
Pandemic;
Coronavirus Pandemic;
Health Pandemics;
Air Transportation;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Capital Markets;
Strategy;
Latin America;
Chile;
United States
Alfaro, Laura, Mauricio Larrain, Carlos Vilches, and Sarah Jeong. "Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 321-027, August 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- 2022
- Chapter
Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture
By: Nicholas Poggioli and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flight is technologically and culturally central to academic life. Academia's flyout culture is built on a set of shared beliefs and values about the importance of flying to being an academic. But flight also generates a large proportion of academia’s carbon emissions,...
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Carbon Emissions;
Air Transportation;
Values and Beliefs;
Environmental Sustainability;
Higher Education;
Education Industry
Poggioli, Nicholas, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture." Chap. 10 in Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl and Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte, 237–268. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- 2001
- Working Paper
Airbus vs. Boeing in Superjumbos: Credibility and Preemption
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Pankaj Ghemawat
In December 2000, Airbus formally committed to spend $12 billion to develop and launch a 555-seat superjumbo plane known as the A380. Prior to and after Airbus’ commitment, Boeing started and canceled several initiatives aimed at developing a “stretch jumbo” with...
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Airbus vs. Boeing in Superjumbos: Credibility and Preemption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 02-061, February 2002.
John C. Emery, Sr.
Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight business – first renting space on existing carrier routes and later developing a full line of dedicated aircraft. For almost 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. During...
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Transportation
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
always been intriguing to me,” says Carty, which explains his five decades in the field—starting at Air Canada, moving on to American Airlines (where he served as chairman and CEO), and including board stints with Porter Airlines, Virgin...
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Julia Hanna
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
communication networks. Develop a national strategy and national priorities that acknowledge new realities—for example, the population shift from suburbia to cities, a need to change focus from single transportation modes to inter-modal...
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Herbert D. Kelleher
Kelleher is the founder of a low cost and highly profitable airline. Southwest has refined the low-cost, no-frills, no-reserved seats approach to air travel, providing over 2,300 flights daily to about 52 cities in 26 states, with a fleet...
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Transportation
- December 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Viva Macau (A)
By: Dante Roscini and G. A. Donovan
A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to...
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Risk Management;
Air Transportation;
Ownership;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Government and Politics;
Emerging Markets;
Venture Capital;
China;
Macau
Roscini, Dante, and G. A. Donovan. "Viva Macau (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-024, December 2013. (Revised August 2015.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006) didn’t set out to build a different kind of career for himself. During his time at HBS, he had a clear, conventional vision of his future. As he told the Portrait Project in 2006, “I am going to devote my life to fixing existing airlines and...
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- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP Partners, and former US Secretary...
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- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
not part of a passenger’s contract with United. (In a request for rulemaking, I recently asked the Department of Transportation to rule this and similar policies invalid and unenforceable.) But even if the policy was binding, it wouldn’t...
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- 23 Sep 2013
- News
Five Alumni Named to Fortune's "40 under 40"
- 10 Dec 2019
- News
At Massport, New CEO is Ready for Change
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on his in-the-trenches experience and lessons from crisis-tested executives, Professor George shows what leaders must do to become strong and survive any crisis. His seven lessons include Face...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman of private-equity firm CCMP...
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- 28 Jun 2014
- News