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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Project Beacon had VUCA written all over it. Huber's team spent a few weeks brainstorming ideas of what Project Beacon should be and do—a daunting task for a guy who knew little about the View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
behavior, would be of great value. Negotiation researchers also frequently advise negotiators to learn as much as they can about the other party (Thompson 2001). Perhaps the most vivid consumer negotiation is car buying, a process many...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
Knowing that not every American who has a dream to start a business can come to Harvard Business School, Casey Gerald (MBA 2014) decided to bring HBS to them. He and three classmates logged 8,000 miles in two cars during an eight-week...
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- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power from View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or...
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- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
one-on-one coffee chats all across the city. The evening culminated with an alumni meet-and-greet, where alumni from around the Bay Area joined WesTrekkers and newly admitted HBS students. Tuesday brought visits to Silicon Valley, which meant that WesTrekkers took the...
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Technology
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
competitions and judging by a panel of global HBS Alumni Angels Association members narrowed the field. Four alumni teams pitched at the finale: ConnectHealth; Cobli, a car fleet logistics data company based in Brazil; EverlyWell, a...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds.
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
she stood beside her car on the shoulder of a backroad in upstate New York. She says she's hoping to “finish up” the breast cancer fight soon, so she can work on the “next problem” — improved and equitable access for people with physical...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
Arthur flour is hailed by famous chefs such as Julia Child and Graham Kerr for its superior quality. Of the company's exacting standards, Sands noted, "A couple of years ago, we shipped back eleven freight cars of flour because it was...
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- Portrait Project
Xenia Yashina
Dad mounts it and speaks. As usual, half of the town is out today. People listen, applaud, cry. Then the evil car comes, and people in military apparel arrest my dad. Mom is crying, but I am not afraid. I know dad will come back – and we...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction....
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- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
sent you to the Web site where you could see the films in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner of car chases and plot twists. Because it was kind of an underground thing, young people...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
Customers in this field are, rightly, skeptical of performance claims. The price comes after the proof. Otherwise, it’s like asking what’s a fair price for a car before knowing what the car is. —Mark Chussil...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
he said, to create a green energy industry that has the potential to be much larger than telecom. Key elements are legislation that is raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars from 25 mpg to 35 mpg; providing $80 billion in stimulus...
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- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Magazine about a company that was trying to sell its software. On a hunch, Hoel Perkins cold-called the company, saying she had money to invest, and landed the founder’s car phone number. When she caught him on the phone, John McAfee was...
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- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
achievements.” Then there was a piece on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Business section. The article opens with the story of how Tammy Strobel and her husband simplified their lives by selling their cars and moving to a...
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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
music to advertising to industrial products. (A course segment on organizations that tried to change and failed—like Nokia—is also included.) "We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a thermostat company—and how it is also getting into the View Details
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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About
Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture , 2015 Tony Tasset (American, born 1960), Arrow Sculpture , 2015, car paint on aluminum. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery. . Conceptual artist Tony Tasset’s new series of paintings and sculptures,...
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