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Roy D. Chapin
In 1919, Chapin introduced the “Essex,” a popularly priced car that was an immediate success. In 1922, Chapin offered closed cars at virtually the same price as the touring car. The closed car became the industry standard while the...
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Automotive & Aerospace
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. Sloan’s attention to...
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Automotive & Aerospace
William Durant
Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the automobile industry was creating an...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 05 Jul 2011
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Driving Innovation
Stewart: Helping brands navigate the complexities of today’s media. Photo courtesy Bonita Stewart What can a high-flying, high-tech giant learn about marketing from an industry that is about as nuts-and-bolts as you can get? Plenty, if...
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Frederick J. Fisher
purchased a 60% interest in Fisher Body. After World War I, when the closed car became the industry standard, Fisher Body yielded especially high returns, emerging as Durant’s most profitable acquisition.
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Automotive & Aerospace
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Mark Hardie
earlier led new product innovation at Agero Inc., an automotive industry service provider. At Ipsos, Mark drove smartphone-based service innovation in the Futures Group. For six years at Nokia Inc., Mr....
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Henry Ford
cars per day. Ford was the first auto manufacturer to focus on a single model with a standardized chassis made of interchangeable parts. Ford became a national celebrity when, in 1914, he announced a basic wage of $5 per day for an 8-hour shift for plant workers, more...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance....
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- 22 Apr 2022
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Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
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...
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- 26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco...
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response...
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Kendall Brinker
Kendall Brinker is driven by a passion for the auto industry. Although her university was "overwhelmingly male," she found a great number of female colleagues who shared her enthusiasm in the Industrial Engineering program....
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- 01 Mar 2011
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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 sensor switches for the View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
decade needs to have a firm understanding of what is going on in China,” says Eisen. His team partnered with an automotive supplier, he says, that “really opened up the company to us. We worked with senior people who asked us to think...
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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...
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- 30 Jun 2009
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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...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
where he ran a job-finding software business from his dorm room, Mistele went to work for Microsoft. Over the next nine years there, he helped to launch four businesses, the last of which focused on automotive telematics, which is known...
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- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
future direction in an automotive industry in the midst of a digital tornado with the arrival of autonomous, internetworked, clean-energy-propelled vehicles. Palmer’s Second Century Plan called for Aston...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate...
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Garry Emmons