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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
already survived a serious auto accident, became convinced he should run for office after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a number of executives died in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996, a flight Checchi missed only because of a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street
the suspects may have fled. As patrol cars converge on the trailer park, Timken stays with the wreck, and tries to find witnesses. Two days later, an e-mail from Timken: “Julio V., with two priors, Grand Theft Auto (GTA), was detained in...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
numerous undertakings to roll out no- or low-emission products and processes in multiple sectors. Hence, the major auto producers, globally, have announced commitments to phase out production of new internal combustion engines by 2035 to...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US investor capital to launch ASIMCO, an auto parts manufacturing...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
This year is shaping up to be a critical one for electric vehicles—or EVs—say HBS alumni in the auto industry, with the newly released Chevy Bolt and Tesla’s own soon-to-be-released Model 3 promising to make EVs as affordable as...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
facility in Indiana, where photovoltaic solar modules will be manufactured. Said Tiller, “Henry Ford transformed the auto industry with his assembly line. As we build to scale, our simpler process will give us the advantage” (Bloomberg...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Studying Japan from the Inside
Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in Japan that your office worked on....
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Can’t Forget the Motor City
’85), key players on the presidential task force that’s deciding what to do about the U.S. auto industry. As a longtime special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union, Bloom previously used skills he honed at Lazard...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
XT4; and in Michigan, I drive a red Chevrolet Camaro. The auto industry has a reputation for being stodgy and bureaucratic, but that perception is outdated. I think the professional opportunities are unmatched when it comes to working on...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Jan 2021
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Numbers Talk at Tesla
conservative, disciplined approach. At the end of 2018, Tesla’s cash on hand totals stood at $3.7 billion; that total was $14.5 billion for the third quarter of 2020. That’s money the carmaker can use for global expansion, including new View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
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The Next Harvard Square? Really?
warehouse has been next door to us forever. And what will become of Herb Goodman’s Auto Sales and his smiley-face sign in this new order of things? When my office on the third floor of Teele Hall looked out on Herb and his dealings, I...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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State of the Unions
workforce to move wages upward.” Over the course of 2015, the AFL-CIO will negotiate the contracts of more than 5 million union employees. The most high-profile collective bargaining agreement takes place this fall, when the United Auto...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In
When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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A Deal on Wheels
came up with the CarLotz concept, were friends and former investment banking colleagues. After some HBS networking, the two found Montgomery, who was working in McKinsey & Company’s automotive practice and had previous experience running multiple View Details
- 18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan
ad campaign has been a game-changer for the Abbeville, Alabama–based wood company. Rane was a practicing attorney in Birmingham in 1970 when he acquired Great Southern following the deaths of its founders, his wife’s parents, in an auto...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
portfolio of companies. Some go great and some don't. But the individual entrepreneur has all his or her eggs in one basket. They are the real actors; we're just the stagehands. Where the new economy is going We've clearly had our excesses, but when the View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
instance, direct investment by Chinese firms in the Mexican manufacturing sector grew from $31.6 million in 2017 to $151.5 million in 2022—mostly in the computer and auto parts industries. “China is indirectly maintaining the relationship...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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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 Internet company. "I was...
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