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“One hires the best consultants on airfield layout, noise impacts, terminal layout, on-site roadways, off-site roadways, cost estimating, financial analysis, and forecasting,” observed DIA administrator Gail Edmond. “They brainstorm and generate as many alternate layouts as possible.” Alternatives were discussed and eliminated at periodic joint working sessions, and a technical subcommittee was organized to gather input from the eventual airport users, airlines, pilots, and the FAA. “Everybody…

If you google Big Data you will notice big corporations like IBM, SAS, Oracle providing enterprise solutions with punch lines “Transform Your Business” and “Big Data Can Generate Big Brainstorms” promising business growth. The reality behind investing in Big Data analytics is still hidden. Today we have the tools to analyze massive amount of data but we still lack the expertise to derive correlations from it. In the public realm finding relation between health and air pollution can be an example…

(MICRO ANALYSIS) Porter's Five Forces is Harvard Business School’s Competitive Position Analysis. It was developed as a simple framework for assessing and evaluating the competitive strength and position of a business organization (Porter, 1980). The base of the theory is the concept which consists from five forces that determine the density of competition and market’s allurement. Five forces of Porter help to determine where power lies within a business situation. It also can help to…

the result is that this award is problematic, because it only recognized one winner, but what happen to the rest employees that are always on time and do their work everyday. The article published on April 8th, 2013, by Diana Gerderman on the Harvard Business School’s website, title “How to Demotivate Your Best Employees,” is destined to inform and demonstrated that awards such as "employee of the month,” in fact it is harmful to the employer’s motivation. Gerderman use evidence-base details to…

was published by Harvard Business Review in the July-August 2011 edition on pages 142-147. Tarun Khanna is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and the Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee are professors at the Seoul National University in South Korea. The intention of the article is to describe Samsung´s crucial approach of moving away from their previous business practices and how they transferred Western business practices into…

student at Harvard Business School, decided to enter an annual business plan contest. Hence he had teamed with his HBS classmate Dana Soiman and the founders of a start-up company Music Games International (MGI). The MGI founders – an HBS alumnus and two professional Musicians, then added two students from other institutions into the team, to create a group composed of diverse views and talents. Though the team was productive, conflicts are at its peak and the progress on the business plan had…

Introduction This review takes a closer look at the article written by T. Khanna, J. Song and K. Lee; “The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise” that was published in the Harvard Business Review in 2011, July-August edition, pages 142-147. They studied the process of Samsung’s development for seven years in order to provide insights for modern companies that are planning to enter the global market by identifying its essential success factors. The Samsung group is currently the largest company in South…

The same organizational practices implemented at the beginning of the business are not appropriate in this stage, where OCB as an already successful organization (age of the organization [2]), is trying to grow further in a new sector. Throughout the years, company’s size grew as well as the number of patients served (Size of the organization [2]) and that fact dictated the need for a more structured process of operations. The company, failed in this phase to recognize the upcoming needs for a…

themselves as entrepreneurs dream of quitting their jobs and going into business for themselves; whether it’s a bed and breakfast, a bookstore, or even “… launching a restaurant and spending their days surrounded by great food and drink.” Johnson poses the question “But what’s it like to actually do it?” and evaluates the dream two entrepreneurs, Diana Dixon and Thomas Sergio, had with vastly different…

Nantucket Harbor and expanded their floating business to include making fresh juice drinks which customers seemed to love. This prompted the two friends to open Allserve General Store on Nantucket’s Straight Wharf. Other stores in Nantucket began selling their juices and they sold 8,000 cases the first year and 20,000 the following year (Harvard Business School, 2000). While the two friends started the business on what seems to be a whim and with no real business plan or model, they did…