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- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Research Online
automobile company that in recent months has recalled 8 million vehicles. He offers seven recommendations for restoring consumer confidence in the safety and quality behind the storied brand. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6381.html. View Details
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Polishing Chrysler bodies similar to shining shoes - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
shoes , ca. 1937 Chrysler Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 :534 T239 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital... View Details
George S. Lannom, Jr.
Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned to the manufacture of baseballs... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Radiator Shells - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
most beautiful thing on wheels. Explore the full size image Radiator Shells , ca. 1937 Pontiac Motors Division Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss:534 A939 1931-1944 :534... View Details
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Smokestacks at the Ford Rouge Plant - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
unusual geometric frame for the eight huge smokestacks at the plant. Explore the full size image Smokestacks at the Ford Rouge Plant , ca. 1936 Ford Motor Company Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
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War work–Hudson - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard College View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
library’s collections. Briggs Motor Sales Company Records, 1925-1946 Collection Guide The Briggs Motor Sales collection offers a relatively rare glimpse into the way an early twentieth-century car dealership helped its customers find credit to finance their View Details
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Mary Falvey
My dad called me “princess,” and he began teaching me about the business when I was eight years old. He had founded one of the original U.S. distributorships for imported automobiles – in Detroit: "If we can make it here, we can make... View Details
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Henry Ford presents new V-8 - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Ford Motor Company Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 :534 A939 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact... View Details
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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
response to products and their benefits. Women populate automobile publicity shots in the role, for example, of “satisfied buyer” of a DeSoto with ample trunk space or of a “bathing suit model” for Pontiac. In a series of shimmering... View Details
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Auto worker creates stripe guns - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
cars. He has developed at least 25 different types of “guns,” including models that paint three different colored stripes at the same time. Explore the full size image Auto worker creates stripe guns , ca. 1936 De Soto Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10... View Details
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1939 De Soto luggage locker has increased capacity - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
size image 1939 De Soto luggage locker has increased capacity , ca. 1939 Chrysler Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 Baker Library |... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Last Look
the summer of 1946 or 1947, although budding trees may suggest an earlier season and the automobile (at lower right) a later year. HBS research associate Joan McCue also suspects a picnic may be in progress, or that mothers working or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled
overestimating the environmental benefits of shared dockless e-scooters—because many riders choose them over walking or pedaling a bike—pointed out that “choosing an e-scooter over driving a personal automobile with a fuel efficiency of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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New Releases
with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in particular, how the "focused... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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All Aboard
no-nonsense manager.” “When I get called, it's generally because there's an operational or financial problem, and people have decided it's time to cease talking about it and do something,” he told the Associated Press (June 19, 2002). Airlines and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
grassroots campaign to curtail the power of the railroads and usher in a system of free roads. And perhaps most important, the automobile and its makers began to take the stage as a force big enough to rival the rails. In 1900, motor... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in View Details