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- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how General Motors prices its...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several new View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
software. And many hardware vendors trumpet their ability to execute these algorithms or store their output quicker, faster and cheaper. New algorithms are seductive in exactly the same way features on a new car are seductive. But let's...
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by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and California—they’re definitely hubs of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoors. I want to leave a world in which she can breathe the air, drink the water, and visit places that are still wild.” Ullman is proud to note that E2 was essential to the passage of a California law in July 2002 that limits carbon dioxide emissions from View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
time with their children. From an environmental impact standpoint, a good number of the roles that we place have some sort of remote work, so we’re saving commuting time and getting cars off the road.” Prokanga is also in the rigorous...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role. “I...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
near the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago, she dreamed of being a physicist. Instead, she has focused her career on executing “pro climate business solutions.” As the COO of Fermata Energy since March 2022, Claire is bringing operating expertise...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
get in and try at a basic level to understand human beings. Once we understand the culture we try to figure out how to play within it and hopefully shape it into something that’s better suited for our client. Here’s an example. We just launched the GTI for Volkswagen....
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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
car wreck in slow motion. The protections afforded international investors in these environments stand in contrast to the treatment of local investors and firms. This highlights another way in which global investors, particularly...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than...
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Kathleen Hebert
Driving ahead In her second year at HBS, Kathleen would like to "work independently with a professor to think through my family's business model. Can we effectively roll out a nationwide network of luxury car dealerships? What...
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Jay Khil
get international assignments – that’s what encouraged me to think about business school as a way to move up and prepare for a international career.” Forced to expand horizons HBS has challenged Jay to move beyond her habits. “Coming from a big View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
employment will be sporadic, and they will have difficulty making ends meet. If lenders tighten credit, they will of course reduce their risk; but at the same time millions of Americans, barred from borrowing, will be unable to leverage their incomes to buy either a...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
two-clicks, the City might create apps and alerts that let you, say, get that pot-hole filled, pay a parking meter, or move your car on street-cleaning days before it gets towed. Just like Google builds sites that are colorful, easily...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
sight of it, you'll fail. In contrast to Sony's approach, RCA, having achieved world dominance in its industry in the 1960s, fell off the "virtuous" path by diversifying into areas in which its managers had no learning base - businesses such as mainframe computers,...
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