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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Russia’s car services industry positioned them well to truly understand their customers and ultimately expand to other major cities. But with limited budgets to acquire talented and expensive platform developers, Fasten needed to ensure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
focus its attention moving forward. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709458 Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-029 In October 2008, Tata...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
contribute enough to pay their costs if they get sick. It is the same principle as in auto insurance. You do not buy car insurance the day before you are going to have an accident. Universal and mandatory insurance should go together,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Peugeot Motor Company. When I visited Doriot’s surviving relatives in Paris, I learned that Doriot’s father, Auguste, was also an entrepreneur himself who, in the early 20th century, launched Doriot, Flandrin, Parant, an innovative car...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Regarding a proper role for government, Reinhardt believes that a fuel tax would make the externalities involved and the cost of driving directly visible, with consumers demanding more fuel-efficient cars as a result. As for the new...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
wound up in right after school. Michel didn’t even own a car until after his second entrepreneurial windfall. For the successful entrepreneurs I got to know, money was important, but I think two things were more important: teaching others...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
including the Hennepin County Human Services building just down the street. Jamil Ford: I just so happened to be at another notable individual’s funeral. Mrs. April Estes was at the funeral for his service. And I was assisting her into the View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
their own. Noise of the May Day rally begins around 4:30 a.m. in Havana. Drums thump, car horns bleep, a low din of bustling humanity builds. Eventually, nearly 900,000 Cubans will march in the parade commemorating International Workers’...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
bullet hole in his car Courtesy David Horgan David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) is the managing director of the oil companies Petrel Resources and Pan Andean, based in Dublin, Ireland. Baghdad last June was a crazy scene of damage and destruction...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China....
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
produced. Scoring high in all these categories, BMW believes that its reputation as the world's "greenest" car company plays an important role in brand awareness and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue...
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by Staff
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
These are important livelihoods for Americans and the number is growing with the gig economy and the opportunity to work remotely. Then there are about 4 million Main Street businesses: coffee shops, dry cleaners, and car repair...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his frantic wife could get there. It is rumored — but not confirmed — that he welcomed premature babies into the world...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
“What keeps it all together is finding innovative new ways to bring costs down and make the business commercially attractive,” says Seabury’s Gautier Brunet. “Planet Labs takes pictures that let you see real-time traffic jams, and you can do environmental monitoring....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
and downtown Beijing, and during the trip we saw maybe one other car every five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During...
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by Deborah Blagg
- Web
Commencement 2012 Address | About
He immediately started telling me stories about Mr. Tata—how he was once traveling on an Indian highway and his car had a flat tire. While the other executives went to a nearby rest stop, Mr. Tata stayed back and to his driver’s great...
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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. And if you look at the people...
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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
goods, let alone political power, and as they are acquiring a share in this economy, they're buying cars and houses, and credit is fueling a lot of the current boom. Many of these participants in the economy just haven't had access to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
that it raised more than $2 million as part of a capital campaign, thereby erasing a debt accrued in a period that included not only the post-Katrina flooding but also an economy that cratered in 2008. On the way back to the French Quarter after the party, Prieto’s...
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