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Edward G. Budd
During the 1910s and 1920s, Budd constructed a successful business supplying car bodies, including an all-steel sedan body, to auto manufacturers such as General Motors, Studebaker, Ford and Chrysler. In the 1930s, Budd pioneered the fabrication of stainless steel.... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
the Boston Globe , and J. T. Sullivan, automotive editor and writer for the Boston Globe , solicited more than 2,000 photographs from automobile manufacturers. Companies provided images of plants, manufacturing activities, assembly lines,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
have is having to plug them in all the time and charge them. So we use magnetic waves to move the power, and to move it very efficiently. There are applications across all of these consumer electronics, automotive vehicles, even medical... View Details
- Fast Answer
Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields
industrial automation & process control, energy & power systems, automotive & transportation, and environmental & building technologies. Gartner Online - The database includes research findings on a wide range of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor Company executive vice president Mark Fields (MBA ’89) welcomed... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Driving Innovation
entertainment, and travel to her initial responsibility for automotive vertical at Google, reported a May 30, 2011 profile in Advertising Age. During her tenure, the search engine company has acquired YouTube, Double Click, AdMob, and... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
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 put a production autonomous... View Details
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Kendall Brinker
made products that inspire as much passion as cars," Kendall notes. As an active member of the Automotive Club, she gets access to events many others would envy. "We got to test drive Lamborghinis at a local dealership,"... View Details
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
2,100 photographs (dating from the 1920s to the early 1940s) from 115 businesses, including some foreign companies. Concurrently with their collecting efforts, Charles H. Taylor, a founding member of the Business Historical Society, and J. T. Sullivan, View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
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
Thornton A. Wilson
Wilson took over the struggling Boeing Company during the recession of the early 1970s. A radical cost cutter, Wilson slashed two thirds of the work force and made the company profitable again. During his 17-year tenure, Wilson pushed Boeing to move into more... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Charles Erwin Wilson
Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts. In the post war era, Wilson’s success continued as he returned the company to... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Roger B. Smith
Smith made sweeping changes at the auto giant, which had become complacent in its success and was losing share to foreign imports. Smith instituted a barrage of controversial changes at GM that included forming strategic joint ventures with Japanese and Korean auto... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Igor I. Sikorsky
Sikorsky was a pioneer in the aircraft industry. The father of the helicopter, Sikorsky patented and flew the first helicopter in 1939. Revolutionizing the transport industry, Sikorsky Aircraft eventually supplied helicopters for both military and commercial purposes... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Donald E. Petersen
Though he was part of the teams that launched the Ford Thunderbird and Mustang, Petersen's real fame is rooted in his revival of the Ford dynasty in the 1980s. Under Petersen's leadership, Ford grew out of the shadow of GM, redesigning the Thunderbird, and launching... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Guy S. Peppiatt
During the nineteen years Peppiatt served the company in an executive capacity, the net sales of Federal-Mogul increased dramatically from $25 million (1950) to $263 million (1969). This tenfold increase was fostered by his commitment to retaining and building a strong... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Charles W. Nash
Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of the few, profitable independent... View Details
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William P. Lear
Long before he invented the autopilot and the executive jet that bears his name, Lear was a pioneer in the development of radio technology. A self-taught engineer, Lear developed the prototype for the first practical automobile radio which he sold to Motorola... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
John D. Hertz
Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1915 as a way to provide transportation services at a modest price. At the time, livery services were targeted only to the upper echelons of society, and Hertz believed that there was a vast untapped potential. Hertz’s... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace