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and the levers to prevent and mitigate them. If we can all sit around the table and have a shared conversation, we can get to a duty-of-care standard. We’re not saying do it all; we’re saying there should be a floor somewhere in the middle. I use the analogy of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

experience was ” “Transformative! In many ways, the world I knew before HBS revolved around engineering and the automotive industry and most conversations would be about these topics, as all my friends did... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

venture commitments to developing battery technologies to meet the coming automotive demand, as well as the needs of countless smart devices. Truck transport, especially diesel-powered trucks, too are a major focus, opening the door to... View Details

05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage

Photo via Digital Chosun Photo via Digital Chosun The shortage of semiconductors that has hamstrung the automotive industry since 2020 isn’t over yet, and Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata (MBA 2001) predicts... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to manufacture battery systems for the Chinese market presents its own questions, Vietor notes. For one, the joint venture is considered a foreign subsidiary,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business

expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books

equity, and real estate. KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success by Warren Liu (MBA ’81) (Wiley) Liu examines the major factors that catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant- service industry in less than two decades. He... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

players work with incumbents, and I would say the best approach is to help them realize that the world is changing, and there’s an opportunity here to participate in their own disruption. At a high level of the automotive sector, both... View Details

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