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- 1998
- Journal Article
Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle
The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle." Abante: Estudios en dirección de empresas 1, no. 2 (1998): 143–65.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
out a contract. “The auto industry is a top-of-the-food-chain type of employer,” says Silvers, explaining that most labor organizations look to the UAW as a role model for negotiations across the country and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and cost control... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
partner at Andersen Consulting, and Paula A. Sneed (MBA 1977) of Kraft Foods. Ronald Goldsberry, a former auto industry executive and now a dot-com entrepreneur, described the rewards of joining a growing... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
months, three of the four tire manufacturers there ceased to exist as independent corporations. In this excerpt from "From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron Tire Cluster," Sull describes how this seemingly... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
often an essential ingredient of recovery. Detroit has a precedent in Pittsburgh and a variety of other cities and jurisdictions that have seen their trajectory fundamentally shift in the wake of precipitous economic and fiscal decline. Long before the American... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Ben Faw
more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do to disrupt the auto View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry and to develop into a broad business conglomerate.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
part of that growth. "It's at that 'not-too-expensive, but it's not cheap' really effective price point," she said. Langer recalled an old industry saw to the effect that "in a recession, a really good business to be in is... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
third party, the human equivalent of Switzerland," he says. Moreover, GM had recently sent Huber to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he became the first private sector civilian to graduate from a program aimed at... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving, entrepreneurial,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation, growth, and new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- August 1983 (Revised March 2011)
- Supplement
Honda (B)
Describes the history of Honda Motor Company from its beginning through its entry into and subsequent dominance of the U.S. market as seen through the eyes of Honda executives. The history of Honda's successful entry into the U.S. market is viewed as highly adaptive... View Details
Christiansen, Evelyn T., and Richard Pascale. "Honda (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 384-050, August 1983. (Revised March 2011.)
- May 1982 (Revised February 1983)
- Supplement
Ford Motor Co. (C)
Keywords: Auto Industry
Salter, Malcolm S. "Ford Motor Co. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 382-165, May 1982. (Revised February 1983.)
- May 1982 (Revised February 1983)
- Case
Ford Motor Co. (A): The Automobile Crisis and Ford's Strategic Posture--1980
Salter, Malcolm S. "Ford Motor Co. (A): The Automobile Crisis and Ford's Strategic Posture--1980." Harvard Business School Case 382-161, May 1982. (Revised February 1983.)
- September 1975
- Case
British Leyland: The Cowley Complex
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "British Leyland: The Cowley Complex." Harvard Business School Case 376-051, September 1975.
- August 1998
- Case
General Motors Corp. (D),The : 1993-1996
By: Peter Tufano
The fourth in a four-part series, the case details the financial policies and practices at General Motors from 1990 to 1996. This case describes the set of financial decisions taken by the firm as its business recovered, and focuses on an immediate decision faced by... View Details
Tufano, Peter, Markus Mullarkey, and William J Widlern. "General Motors Corp. (D),The : 1993-1996." Harvard Business School Case 299-009, August 1998.