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War work–Hudson - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next War work–Hudson ca. 1944 Hudson Motor Cars Photographer unknown Explore the full size image War work–Hudson , ca. 1944 Hudson Motor...
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- Jan 2014
- Case
Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move
decreasing popularity of cars and increasing urban populations—have implications for 21st century transportation and infrastructure. This is apparent in the case of Chicago, a global city in the vanguard of change. This paper focuses on...
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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
them. "The market is smaller than we had anticipated," Johnson said. So far, the brand is struggling to gain market share, and Mercedes-Benz has some high costs to recoup. Johnson estimated it cost about $1 billion to develop a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
I was a kid. Our house was bugged. My father would say, ‘Hey, watch that car behind us. He’ll drop off in two blocks, and another car will pick us up.’ That was kind of fun.” Joyride: A Ducati Pikes Peak....
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
services for leisure and small-business travelers. Consumers enjoy one-stop shopping for airline tickets, car rentals, vacation packages, hotels, and cruises, as well as a wealth of travel news and merchandise. "Preview Travel and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year begin selling battery-powered...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate champions. Generating electricity...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically making the rounds. The View Details
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Colt Stander
same day as my surgical tool for opening skulls.” Colt’s interest in designing cars attracted him to industrial design. “But I quickly learned that cars weren’t for me,” he says. “I became more interested in...
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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
the restructuring process. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/oaktree-and-the-restructuring-of-cit-group-a/an/214035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-467 CarMax: Disrupting the Used Car Market In 2012, CarMax was the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
information, connected car services, and analytics, founded by Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995). The figures aren’t much better in the United States, where Los Angeles tops the list at 81 hours. And in the rankings of nations, the US, with an...
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- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
trying something new." No direct path, yet a destination emerges Over the next two years, James would fulfill roles at three different startups until he found a fourth, Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which proved to...
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Bianca Tabourn
mirror. Buy my mom the house I promised her when I was 13-years old. Buy my father the car I promised him just yesterday. Be remembered as the woman who erased the achievement gap between minority and white students. Have my grandmother...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
driverless? Is it an advertising space? A connected entertainment center? A personal transportation sanctuary? —Jeff Zeller (MBA 2016) KAPOOR: The internal space will be very different. Up until now, cars have been designed for a scenario...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
Term project designed to help the automaker advance its delivery of consumer-friendly electronics. “We call the project Cars 2.0,” says Fields. “We’ve had to change the culture here at Ford from ‘not invented here’ to taking ideas from...
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- 10 Jan 2017
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Street Smarts
“Today, the car is a mobile computing platform,” says Mistele. “We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services around it.” For example, INRIX uses machine learning to provide customized daily routing advice...
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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
Computers and e-commerce, cars and corporate titans — these themes are at the core of Harvard Business School Publishing’s latest compilation of best-selling cases. Written wholly or in part by current or former members of the HBS...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
GMBuyPower.com, which enables customers to order cars online. The second is the development of its OnStar technology, which, according to the company's 1999 annual report, will enable the first "Web car." 72 The third change is...
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