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Juan Trippe’s Early Entrepreneurial Efforts

In: Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders

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  • Anthony J. Mayo
  • Nitin Nohria
  • Mark Rennella

Abstract

It was October 18, 1927, and Juan “Terry” Trippe, the new president of Pan American Airways, was just days from becoming a failure in the nascent airline industry. Trippe had already begun two airline projects that had ended almost as quickly as they had begun. Now, embarking on his third, Trippe ran into a pressing problem. Pan Am’s head pilot, Ed Musick, was supposed to be carrying the mail from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba to fulfill a mail contract granted to Pan Am from the U.S. Post Office. Unfortunately, Musick could not get to the Keys; he was stuck in Miami with a new Fokker airplane because the runway at Key West’s airport had been reduced to mud by some recent rains.1

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  • Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria & Mark Rennella, 2009. "Juan Trippe’s Early Entrepreneurial Efforts," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders, chapter 0, pages 41-60, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-10095-4_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230100954_3
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