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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

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

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.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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... View Details

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

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... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

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... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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

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

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