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- 01 Sep 2014
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New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
they return to campus this month. On the to-do list? Forging partnerships with e-commerce retailers (which might offer a Boxxify option at checkout) and car services like Uber (whose drivers could deliver packages on the side). Plus, to...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate champions. Generating electricity...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
have not taught managers and marketers we have a problem, and so, if you think that more data will solve the problem of what is not in the data, then we are misleading people in a serious way. How would cars work as an example of a job...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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A Deal on Wheels
CarLotz Guys: Ready to sell your car for you in a new, hassle-free way. Photo courtesy CarLotz Last April, inspired by the recent spike in demand for used cars—as well as a growing number of used-car owners looking to profit from that...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
Computers and e-commerce, cars and corporate titans — these themes are at the core of Harvard Business School Publishing’s latest compilation of best-selling cases. Written wholly or in part by current or former members of the HBS...
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- 29 Jun 2016
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The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous vehicle on the road.” Local...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Faculty Books
negotiation theory, Professor Subramanian explores the common situation in which negotiators are “fighting on two fronts” — across the table but also on the same side of the table with competitors. This is a guide for all involved in buying or selling everything from...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
by over 2.7 million pounds per year. That’s equivalent to taking 265 cars off the road for one year, saving 139,000 gallons of gasoline or 2,848 barrels of oil. For Harvard as a whole, loan-fund projects have yielded an average 25 percent...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS
see their business suffer, as American car manufacturers have, Gore noted. In attacking the climate crisis, Gore concluded, the rest of the world will follow if America provides leadership. “This is the only crisis that has threatened the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
accurately and cost-effectively. MANAGER'S NOTEBOOK Crowdsourcing as an Innovation Tool "Look at what one of our alumni, Jay Rogers (MBA 2007), is doing with cars at Local Motors. He's figured out that the people inside his organization...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi
better future beckoned. But then as I entered the border town of Safwan, which is a few miles into Iraq from Kuwait, it became clear that this was not the country that I had left. It had changed in ways that were incredible. Safwan seemed to be a gigantic used-car...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
autonomous-driving technology obviously could have incredible societal benefits. Building a safe, self-driving car is the greatest engineering challenge of our lifetime. I think we’re going to get there sooner than we think, especially in...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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A Class All His Own
lived in the basement of the Dean’s House. His job was to keep Dean Donham’s car clean, put wood on the fire, do chores, and wait tables in the dining hall for his meals.” He also reminisces about fellow classmates like Robert McNamara...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started...
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- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power from View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction....
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
Customers in this field are, rightly, skeptical of performance claims. The price comes after the proof. Otherwise, it’s like asking what’s a fair price for a car before knowing what the car is. —Mark Chussil...
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