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  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Anthony Tan

breakthrough idea came from an HBS classmate, an Indonesian friend who needled Tan about the dreadful state of the taxi business in Malaysia. “He said: `Your great grandfather was a taxi driver, your grandfather started the Japanese View Details
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

non-compete status in Michigan, they discovered a natural test bed, thanks to an inadvertent policy change. In 1905, during the initial automotive industry boom, Michigan passed Public Act No. 329, which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

an 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.... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

School Case 215-012 EcoMotors International Eco-Motors, funded in part by Khosla Ventures, has to decide how to go to market with a new technology for internal combustion engines for automotive and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/516005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-107 The TARP Bailouts: Saving the Banking and Automotive Industries Comparison of the U.S. Government response, using the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

to deploy a system of statistical control that had been developed and applied successfully in the management of the Army Air Forces. Henry Ford II had recently assumed control of his grandfather's troubled automotive empire and was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Swiss Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Richard DeJordy Abstract—This study examines how influential institutional leaders in the Swiss watch industry responded to its precipitous decline after the introduction of quartz technology.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

global automotive industry had entered a deep crisis; in response, FIAT and Chrysler had forged a partnership, and Marchionne now found himself in the same situation again. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

ethanol as an automotive fuel. Its business largely consists of buying corn and turning it into ethanol. MME's 40-million-gallon-per-year plant began production in February 2005 and, since that time, has exceeded all performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2018
  • News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

firm and industry heterogeneity and quasi-exogenous meteorological and sport events. The evidence suggests that family CEOs value—or can pursue—leisure activities relatively more than professional CEOs. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

automotive sector because of the presence of numerous inter-firm transaction cycles. These cycles, in turn, reveal that a significant group of firms have two-way "vertically permeable boundaries": (1) they participate in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

with a similarly large effect upon reversal of the U.S. monetary policy stance. This result is robust across different geographic regions and industries and holds for U.S. and non-U.S. lenders, including those with little direct exposure... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

automotive industry executive, but a first-time entrepreneur, Canny was CEO of Think Global AS (THINK), a privately held Norwegian maker of battery-operated EVs that are rechargeable through residential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace