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    David J. Collis

    For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details

      Teresa M. Amabile

      Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

        Rohit Deshpande

        Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
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        Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

        By: Shoshana Zuboff
        Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
        Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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        • November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
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        The Big 3 Roar Back

        By: William W. George
        The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
        Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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          Birth of a Salesman

          This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

            Rajiv Lal

            Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

            • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
            • Case

            Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace

            By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
            Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler--the three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that dominated the automotive industry throughout the 20th century--launched Covisint in February 2000 as an industry supply chain exchange that would drive out cost... View Details
            Keywords: Business Model; Supply Chain Management; Business Startups; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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              Howard H. Stevenson

              Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

              Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
              • 2004
              • Book

              Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

              By: Walter A. Friedman
              This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
              Keywords: Sales; Employees; Transformation; United States
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              Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

              Donald C. Burr People Express Airlines, 1980–1986 Thomas J. Burrell Burrell Advertising, 1971–2003 Robert N. Burt FMC Corporation, 1991–2001 Adolphus Busch Anheuser-Busch Brewery, 1880–1913 C Vincent A. Calarco Crompton Corporation, 1985–2004 Philip Caldwell View Details

                Steven C. Wheelwright

                Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

                Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

                • 14 Dec 2021
                • Op-Ed

                To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

                tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work.” Lorsch and McTague offered Ford as an example. When Allan Mullaly took over View Details
                Keywords: by Michael Beer
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                Hiring Organizations

                Therapeutics Foodology Foot Locker Footbridge Partners Foothill Ventures Ford Motor Company Foundation Medicine Founder Collective Founders Factory Africa Four More Capital Francisco Partners Franklin Templeton Investments Frist Capital... View Details
                • 09 May 2012
                • Research & Ideas

                Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

                companies to continue to use what they already have in place, they pay far more than the full cost—because the company loses its competitiveness. As Henry Ford once put it, "If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will... View Details
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                Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research

                Professor of Business Administration Sunil Gupta Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration Ayelet Israeli Marvin Bower Associate Professor Michael T. Moynihan Lecturer of Business Administration Das Narayandas Edsel Bryant View Details
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                Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

                and master's degrees from Cooper Union College, followed by his MBA from HBS in 1949. He worked at Ford Motor Company and at Republic Aviation during and after World War II before creating his own very successful businesses in Oakland,... View Details
                • 24 Apr 2017
                • Op-Ed

                Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

                automate its factories, Mulally borrowed $23.5 billion, convincing the Ford family to pledge its stock and the famous Ford Blue Oval as collateral. His bold move paid off. Unlike its Detroit competitors,... View Details
                Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
                • 18 Jul 2023
                • Research & Ideas

                Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

                Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
                Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
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                About - Global

                1957 MBA students create the International Business Club. 1955 Office of International Relations opens at HBS to coordinate activities of faculty abroad and improve foreigners’ time on campus. 1954 Ford Foundation awards a grant to help... View Details