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- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
book The Next Convergence, Spence focuses on what he calls tradable jobs (making things like cars that can be made somewhere else—largely manufacturing jobs) and nontradable jobs (like nurses and auto mechanics, the vast majority of whom...
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- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
most fun job. And it was pumping gas at a Hess gas station, because you dealt with all sorts of customers. You were busy every second, filling the car with gasoline—this is before self-serve—washing windshields, popping the hood. You met...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
of law enforcement and the impact you can have. I decided I wanted to learn the heartbeat of the street and know more about that side of life.” The heartbeat of the street can quicken in an instant. At a stoplight on one of El Monte’s main drags, a View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods "prime" individuals to be less concerned about or considerate toward others? The...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
they are today.” Among the presentations: Team Lincoln pitched the idea that Ford could lead the driverless car market with the Lincoln brand, marketing the backseat of an automobile as a warm, luxurious comfort zone, and wooing...
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- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
Interested in offsetting your travel carbon footprint? Click here. Are you traveling soon, but feel concerned about the carbon footprint of your flight or drive? Planes and cars release greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) such as carbon...
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- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
two years since, Ang and I have been on car rides around the world, from Marseille to Melbourne. And while they each have their place, nothing comes close to that magical night in Cupertino. Greg Hahn, Class of 2021 “Love is patient, Love...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
where differences in government, religion, and culture can vary greatly, despite proximity. “Doing business in Singapore is nothing like doing business in Malaysia, which is a 30-minute car drive from here,” says Cui. “And it’s nothing...
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John H. McArthur | About
importance of spiritual values, which McArthur argued must remain paramount. McArthur also effectively banned most vehicular traffic from Soldiers Field, turning roads once dominated by cars and trucks into lush green spaces. Over the...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the same time, Rich Kinder, to whom I reported indirectly through my boss (and I greatly respected), decided to leave and was infamously replaced. I chose to leave Enron instead. —Bob Herlin (MBA 1982) Clean Conscience I worked at a self-service View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
electrification—from the car manufacturers and utility companies to government agencies and the public, who often have a say in where and how charging locations are implemented. An ongoing partnership with GM, for example, is enabling...
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energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
front, you had us building satellites. The entrance was a garage door that couldn't really close. The car that was standing there was like the single most beat-up Toyota Corolla, in white, that you can imagine, which was our phone...
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Magashe Ngoepe
community and stay looking for ways to grow deeper friendships with those in my existing community. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A lawyer. I always wanted to stand in a court and defend people and send bad guys to jail. What is your favorite...
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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
of it as superhuman—especially if AI is solving complicated problems such as 100 percent accuracy in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis. You have to help them understand that the performance of ML products improves over time (it’s...
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by Rocio Wu
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
businesspeople of all kinds, as well as with medical workers, teachers, creatives, airline pilots, firefighters—you name it. We are all working parents.” Working from: “As a busy working parent writing a book in a pandemic, I did my typing in the View Details
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April White
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
mind—a car needs a certain quantity regardless of what the package sizing is. If the Quaker States and Pennzoils of the world were to shrink their packaging from a quart to something less than a quart, it would force consumers to buy more...
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by Manda Salls