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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
any such occurrence." Seated at his desk, Lhota suddenly heard "a screeching noise" and then an explosion. He ran to the front steps of City Hall, where a police officer told him that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, five blocks away. Thanks...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
Energy Services, while Peter R. Formanek (MBA '68) and his AutoZone cared for car owners in need of quality parts and friendly service. This kaleidoscope of achievement was being replicated by HBS alumni virtually everywhere across the...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on a Texas View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the right thing. We also found that their expectations in this vein are often higher than other generations’ expectations. In the automotive category, for instance, millennials expect car companies to create vehicles that will get more...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
including the Hennepin County Human Services building just down the street. Jamil Ford: I just so happened to be at another notable individual’s funeral. Mrs. April Estes was at the funeral for his service. And I was assisting her into the View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
their own. Noise of the May Day rally begins around 4:30 a.m. in Havana. Drums thump, car horns bleep, a low din of bustling humanity builds. Eventually, nearly 900,000 Cubans will march in the parade commemorating International Workers’...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
bullet hole in his car Courtesy David Horgan David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) is the managing director of the oil companies Petrel Resources and Pan Andean, based in Dublin, Ireland. Baghdad last June was a crazy scene of damage and destruction...
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- 25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?
travels 100 miles on a single battery charge. Ghosn notes that 80 percent of the world’s daily driving is less than 50 miles. While electric car owners can charge up at home in a multihour process (usually overnight), Ghosn envisions...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
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Gaining Currency
Kim Reynolds (MBA ’79), the weakness of the dollar is a good thing: It makes Markel’s products — insulated wire and tubing for cars — attractive to buyers from Europe where locally manufactured goods have grown pricey due to the euro’s...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods
production Bluetooth technology inside cars has been a factor. As recently as eight or nine years ago, if you wanted to use an MP3 player or an iPod in the car, you’d have to hook it up to one of those old cassette deck adapters. Now you...
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Dan Morrell
- 02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
the car kicks the jack out. The car falls on them, and there's text that says that this person who is from Maine broke his back so that he could get more prescription opioids. How effective do you think...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Hudson Motor Cars plant. At top left, a photo (circa 1934) by Fred C. Seely, titled “Combination slicing and wrapping machine,” taken at the Continental Baking Company, features an American icon, Wonder Bread. To view the Baker exhibit,...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
are physically challenged face—Brehm and his wife, Faith, were seriously injured in a 1993 car accident. He suffered a high-level spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia. "We were determined not to let this injury limit us. We've...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
purchasers to explore categories and products, compare brands in the same category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
a buy-American pitch to sell cars anymore (American Public Media’s Marketplace, July 6, 2009). “Despite the hype about Google’s innovation prowess, the company hasn’t proven that it can build sustainable new growth businesses.” — Scott D....
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- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
battery-storage opportunity this way: When Tesla announced its plans to produce an electric-vehicle battery that could run for a million miles on a single charge, she began to wonder what might happen to that battery once the car itself...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2013
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Faculty Books
from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. They describe new research revealing that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models and that commercials can enhance the enjoyment of watching...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner of car chases and plot twists. Because it was kind of an underground thing, young people started to discover the films. You could download and pass...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
new car may be seductive, he notes, "but let's not forget that a car's real function is to cross distances and bring people to each other. And let's start to consider that the real function of IT might be strikingly similar."
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