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The note provides a qualitative and quantitative overview of the North American airline and airport industries with data covering 2016 to 2020. Specifically, the data covers five airlines—American Airlines Group Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines Holdings Inc., Air Canada, and WestJet Airlines Ltd.—and five airports—New York’s LaGuardia, Los Angeles International, Chicago’s O’Hare International, Toronto Pearson International, and Tucson International. The objective is to provide students with a basic understanding of the business and operations of the airline and airport industries.

The note provides a qualitative and quantitative overview of the North American airline and airport industries with data covering 2016 to 2020. Specifically, the data covers five airlines-American Airlines Group Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines Holdings Inc., Air Canada, and WestJet Airlines Ltd.-and five airports-New York's LaGuardia, Los Angeles International, Chicago's O'Hare International, Toronto Pearson International, and Tucson International. The objective is to provide students with a basic understanding of the business and operations of the airline and airport industries.

Anthony Palomba arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2020 as a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Darden). As a media-management and audience-analysis scholar, Palomba had previously assigned media- and entertainment-business-based cases to students to read. However, he had no idea how to exercise the case method in the classroom. In order to understand the case method, Palomba interviewed current Darden faculty members about best practices in pre-class planning, class discussion execution, and post-class or outside-class activities. In this note, Palomba organizes and summarizes what he discovered through these interviews, and reflects on his own case-study teaching experiences. Though he wrote this note for Darden faculty who are new to the case method, it is useful for any instructor taking on the case method for the first time. Moreover, it may serve as a refresher for veteran faculty members seeking inspiration or fresh perspectives.

While there will always be a place in this world for "art for art's sake," the artistic value of creative works need not be diminished by the application of commercial considerations. In fact, the argument can be made that both artist and consumer benefit when these two worlds are harmoniously fused. This note explores this notion, with the authors developing a reference document for business and art students to draw upon when entering the business of Broadway and navigating the myriad decisions when bringing a creative work to commercializable life.

This note introduces a leadership communication competencies framework as part of the embodying executive presence model. The model can be leveraged in the education and development of leaders seeking to improve their skills associated with having impact and influence, enhancing their persuasive capabilities, and their ability to inspire others.

This note introduces a leadership communication competencies framework as part of the embodying executive presence model. The model can be leveraged in the education and development of leaders seeking to improve their skills associated with having impact and influence, enhancing their persuasive capabilities, and their ability to inspire others.

This technical note describes an up-to-date data repository containing balance of payment, exchange rate, and aggregate macroeconomic data in a standard format used by case studies written by members of the Business, Government & the International Economy (BGIE) group at Harvard Business School.

This note provides background information on a French law ("the Florange law") passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other European countries. The note also provides examples of what the application of the Florange law looked like in the real world and how companies and their shareholders were impacted by it.

This technical note provides an overview of key analytical approaches that are useful in assessing the appropriateness of a firm's capital structure and funding plan. This note introduces basic quantitative tools and metrics that are commonly used as inputs to this broader financial planning process. These tools can be useful as part of an initial assessment of a firm's financial health, as well.

In the early twenty-first century the Native American populations of the United States continued to live with the legacy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural destruction. Although other minority groups had increasingly been able to make their voices heard, Native Americans struggled to bring attention to the continuing consequences of this history. Native Americans were the most economically challenged group in the United States and were disproportionately victims of police violence and mass incarceration. This note provides background for these challenges.

This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the discounted free cash flow model. However, it expresses future cash flows to equity in terms of accounting measures of capital (e.g., book value of equity) and performance (e.g., return on equity). Implementing the RIM requires forecasting the amount of expected future "economic profits," which depends on how business strategy plays out in the context of industry competitive dynamics, effective management of financial capital, and governance.

This note discusses the sources of competitive advantage for firms, including scale economies, network economies, counter positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resources, and process power. It also introduces the features of sustainable competitive advantage, offers examples, and includes a framework for assessing the sustainability of each source of competitive advantage. This note is taught at Darden in digital marketing and would also be suitable in a module covering competitive marketing strategy.