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- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
been five days of massive rain. The dirt and gravel path was soggy and spongy. That reduced my average speed from around 14 to 8 miles per hour. By the end of the day, I was still about 25 miles away from Rochester, in a little town called Albion. There was nothing...
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
standardization and cooperative efficiency—the assembly line, and an “industrial doctor of science,” as the accompanying caption states, performs “basic data research” aimed at formulating the best possible car lubricant. Baker Library |...
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
vehicles that are not privately owned to provide cheaper, safer, and "greener" travel to more consumers, more often. The potential economy-wide disruptions caused by this transportation system are enormous. How will car...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has been affected by incarceration,...
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- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best” Think of the Bugatti Veyron, for example, a car with 1,000 horsepower that goes 252 miles an hour....
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Marco Crespo
Marco Crespo's story is one of continuity. Before attending HBS, he had been active in the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a Brazilian nonprofit founded by a world-famous Formula 1 race car driver, dedicated to improving public education. While...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to support them. Kenyans seem open to...
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Amy Yee
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Oded Navon
car on the road – everyone is home or in prayer for a day of introspection. My hometown commemorates Yom Kippur in a way I’ve always loved, taking advantage of the fact that everyone is home to reconnect with neighbors. At sunset,...
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Alex Nelson
During the long, cold winters in her home state of Minnesota, Alex Nelson daydreamed of "a better car heater that would warm up immediately, like a hair dryer." Although she never built that heater, the daydream symbolized her...
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LaToya Marc
don't want to know how to build one car," she says. "I want to know how to build one hundred cars in less time and for less money. Of all the engineering disciplines, industrial gave me the greatest opportunity to think about...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be...
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by Martha Lagace
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator G eorges Frederic Doriot's interest in manufacturing began at an early age . He was born in 1899 in France, where his father Auguste was a successful engineer for the Peugeot Motor Company and later ran his own View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
models (including 11 in North America) slated to debut over the next three years. The lineup features the rotary-powered RX-8 sports car and the all-new midsize Mazda6, which, Fields proudly notes, has “class-leading driving dynamics,...
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- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
access to many diverse transactions through a single device, be it a mobile phone, a videogame system, an iPod, a car navigation system, etc. Q: Software platforms naturally lead to multi-sided business but Apple seems to be the outlier...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
alumni we’re required to work that into the first two minutes of any conversation.” How to: Collect Anything Classic Cars “If you are in the hobby, you pretty much have to have some mechanical ability,” says Vince O’Brien (MBA 1969), who...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
fewer miles driven, the lower the annual premium—presenting a temptation to lie. Controlling for the number of cars per policy, the researchers found that the average reported mileage per car was much higher...
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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
seemed to be on its way to defy the skeptics and become the first U.S. company to enter the car industry with a mass-produced car since WWII and the first to successfully launch a fully electric car. Or was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI...
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