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  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

  PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

and measure the degree of hierarchy in transactional relationships among firms and apply the methods to two large industrial sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. We compiled the networks of firms connected by transactional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and underweighting pattern can emerge in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Policy - Business & Environment

concerted campaign in the U.S. to sow doubt about the scientific underpinnings of climate change concerns. More recently, some companies—including in the energy and automotive sectors—have begun advocating for government policies to... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

end-use consumers were to receive a great buying experience, then the independent dealers had to deliver that experience. Dealers were clearly a critical part of Mobil's new strategy. In the past, Mobil did not consider their retailers or... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 05 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

be), or misinformed (provides an expected price of $510, way above the market average). Consumers who display knowledge about repair costs can get a better price. SOURCE: Kali9 A second part of the study tested how willing shops were to... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

we've seen suggests that this performance is typical: analysts and managers have trouble making forecasts in the kind of volatile economy that will probably be part of the new normal. Pay Attention to Product Availability Repeated studies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

learning concepts tested at its Cuicuilco (Mexico) kids’ edutainment park. As part of an effort to build a global network of such ventures, proposals for new franchises in Doha and London as well as the format for the first KidZania to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) Willy Shih and Margaret PiersonHarvard Business School Case 612-071 The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

were more like them, too, whose careers were similar to the careers the students were pursuing," Sucher says. So the video series includes people like Hemant Luthra, now a top executive at Mahindra CIE Automotive in Mumbai, who is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

transcend our differences. As a participant in, and a beneficiary of, what we know as “the great American experiment,” I feel compelled to pay it forward by contributing to our collective progress towards a better United States. Part of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Lasting Impressions

became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

School Case 215-012 EcoMotors International Eco-Motors, funded in part by Khosla Ventures, has to decide how to go to market with a new technology for internal combustion engines for automotive and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

211-044 Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne