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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator G eorges Frederic Doriot's interest in manufacturing began at an early age . He was born in 1899 in France, where his father Auguste was a successful engineer for the Peugeot Motor Company and later ran his own View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new product View Details
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Kathleen Hebert
dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a marketing intern with... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
there is one initiative that has stuck with him. In September 2010, 58-year-old Domino’s Pizza deliveryman Richel Nova was lured to a vacant home and stabbed to death. His money, car and the pizza he was called to deliver were stolen. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years... View Details
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
intriguing examples of advertising photography with models demonstrating special features of the cars as well as publicity stunts and events including cross-country races, goodwill tours, and celebrity appearances. The collection also... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
NPLs—including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans on which customers had defaulted. “At a certain point, it becomes clear to banks that they can’t collect without a lot of effort, so their choice is to write the loan off completely,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
William C. Kirby, the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, developed the course to introduce students to a cross section of Chinese industry and commerce while also providing a deeper dive into a particular sector. For... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
production of Army trucks from major car companies including Ford and General Motors. He also boosted rubber supply through a program of higher production and greater citizen conservation. In 1942, Doriot became chief of the Research and... View Details
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There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly... View Details
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
everyone, using technologies of abundance: smartphones, renewable energy, and energy storage. And we’re hiring.” Phil Rettger (MBA 1985) Cofounder & CEO, Aetherix Corp. “I’ve been developing renewable electricity projects for over 35... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started... View Details
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Pranav Kothari
materials used for industrial applications, like car fabrics." For Pranav, an MBA would give him a chance to develop necessary management skills and test his ideas. HBS topped his list of possibilities.... View Details