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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
Political candidates are often said to be marketed just like consumer products. But there’s a big difference. Consumer marketers such as Coke and Pepsi or Toyota and Ford focus on building up their brand, not on tearing down their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
the paper, reading books.” —Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994), president, the Americas, Ford Motor Company, on the company’s recovery strategy “[We] met as a team and committed to each other that we were going to find a way to get this done without... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
devoted entirely to manufacturing (and featuring Kim Clark, Steve Wheelwright, Bob Hayes, and Roy Shapiro as youthful professors, along with older hands such as Wick Skinner). After its founding in 1908 (the same year Henry Ford... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
made by Japanese manufacturers during that time. Now, however, the overall perceptions of key competitors have dramatically changed. Toyota, in particular, has a significantly diminished reputation due to highly publicized recent recalls. At the same time, View Details
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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
offered an opportunity for faculty from U.S. colleges and universities to learn: the preparation of a case from gathering field notes to final draft; how to teach with cases; and grading and evaluation of student performance. The program was supported by the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
aren’t going to confuse a Ford Explorer with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, for example, so it’s not necessary (or possible) to own one name across all classes. “On the other hand, if you see lots of use of an identical or similar name or... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jan 2014
- News
Harvard Meets Ballet
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
his eyes. It’s been a labor of love for him. And he said, I don’t want a square box or a rectangle. I want something with lots of light, lots of windows. And he designed an absolutely beautiful building. JH: A lifelong resident of North Minneapolis, Jamil View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
management is the responsibility of none other than the corporation's number-one manager, a conflict of interest that is awkward at best. The obvious solution is separating the two positions—a move many Ford Motor Company shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Division of Research from 1953 to 1968, died on March 14. He was 92. Fox joined the HBS faculty in 1949 and served at the School for 25 years. He was the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration from 1955 to 1967, and from... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
month for Internet access. We bundled a computer and online access and support for less than $25 a month and launched that business. And soon into it [we] got a call from the Ford Motor Company. The CIO said, ‘We're spending over $125... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
Japan. Nixon resigned. Gerald Ford inherited, and lost, the presidency. Reaganomics replaced Carter's idealism. Communism moved toward capitalism, and our class, as well as our society, faced challenges and opportunities we'd never... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, and C.D. Spangler. Photos by Susan Young In 2007, as Dean Jay Light... View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
unable to find a museum job and was turned down for multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, was sent a copy of her dissertation and described being “flabbergasted” that she had not found work.... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
important to have a fully engaged society. “I was at Ford for 13 years and I left to join Carnegie about seven years ago. It’s one of the few foundations that I’ve seen that actually really keeps close to the original mission of its... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
other. Consider the experience of a friend who was recently shopping for a new car. He'd always had good luck with Fords and was inclined to stick with them, especially after driving the latest model. After some back and forth, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
the numbers are accurate Widely criticized for his by-the-numbers approach to the Vietnam War as US Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara’s pioneering use of statistics during World War II and leadership skills at Ford Motor left a mixed... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
economy. Hopefully, I can finish by the late fall of next year. After that, I have in mind another project on U.S. economic management since the New Deal—through the exchange-rate collapse of Nixon, the demise of U.S. competitiveness under View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
scale and scope of HBS. To round out our global package, we profile three alumni who have had considerable success applying their MBA skills to cross-border business opportunities. Pictured on our cover, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) has worked for View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra (AMP 113, 1993) and Suj Krishnaswamy (Harvard Business Press) When Tata Motors bought the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford — complementing the Nano, its innovative $2,500 car — a new... View Details