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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
has quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad outcomes related to automobile pollution. And they have also quantified the time benefit, finding that the BRT so far has reduced a 90-minute trip to 45 minutes. With a projected... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
he contemplated the position his business unit found itself in: a latecomer. As a state-owned enterprise, Dongfeng had entered into numerous joint ventures to produce automobiles under foreign brands, but its foray into selling vehicles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Italy, Japan, and Russia that were produced originally for publicity purposes, including annual reports, company histories, and advertising materials as well as illustrations for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
of Maybach sales operations for Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, has perhaps faced a more significant challenge than the rest of the panel over the last several years: launching an extremely high-end automobile during a tough economy. Starting at... View Details
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Smaller 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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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
the global automobile industry. After 15 years of building a leading technology for autonomous driving systems, Mobileye emerged in 2014 as one of the most exciting companies in the race for the driverless car. After going public in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
helped plan the oft-praised public transportation system in Singapore. The city encourages use of its system by keeping rider fees low, discourages individual automobile purchases by charging high ownership taxes, and keeps the trains... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
Finally, if the ease of customer retention is high, early investment in customer acquisition can pay dividends over a longtime horizon. For example, Web users find changing Internet service providers a difficult task, but buying an View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
manufacturer of switching power supplies, hoped to enter the market for gasoline-electric hybrid power trains for automobiles by being a major component and subsystem supplier. While most public awareness of hybrid vehicles fell to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
their ads in the future? Teixeira notes that there is already some evidence of pulsing in ads, as in the award-winning "The Happiness Factory" for Coca-Cola, and various automobile commercials that briefly show the brand logo of... View Details
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Anthony Tan
To most aspiring business leaders, Anthony Tan had enviable career prospects. The scion of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, Tan is the son of the CEO of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia’s biggest automobile... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
immortal, it would only be because it never rested. Henry Ford's career bears some interesting similarities to Watson's. Ford built his first automobile, the quadricycle, in 1896. Many people at the time thought the automobile was a mere... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
bone. The American automobile industry may not survive as we have known this bellwether star in the industrial firmament. This industry is a prime example of the dangers of the repetition compulsion. I am in a pessimistic frame of mind,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
and also examples of companies who understood this problem and created an effective product mix? A: There are clearly domains where consumers face overchoice: analgesics, automobile options, mutual funds, upholstered furniture, etc. In... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money borrowed from our children. As... View Details