Automobiles - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

Finally, if the ease of customer retention is high, early investment in customer acquisition can pay dividends over a longtime horizon. For example, Web users find changing Internet service providers a difficult task, but buying an View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

at the beginning of the form with signing at the end. In one experiment, they teamed up with an automobile insurance company, manipulating the signature line on the policy review forms that customers receive at the end of each year. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

of which was the unionization of its plants and the creation of the United Automobile Workers, General Motors was anxious to turn the nation's attention to its ambitions for the future. This it attempted to do through... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

industries predicted dire economic consequences from the 1970 Clean Air Act-including the end of the automobile and "irreparable damage" to the America economy. Yet history has shown that industry responses often hugely overestimate the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 1996
News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

helped promote highway construction. Some complements to the automobile already existed. One was loans - but here, too, carmakers took an active hand in making them more accessible and attractive. First General Motors and then Ford set up... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

immortal, it would only be because it never rested. Henry Ford's career bears some interesting similarities to Watson's. Ford built his first automobile, the quadricycle, in 1896. Many people at the time thought the automobile was a mere... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

Profile

Anthony Tan

To most aspiring business leaders, Anthony Tan had enviable career prospects. The scion of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, Tan is the son of the CEO of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia’s biggest automobile... View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

he contemplated the position his business unit found itself in: a latecomer. As a state-owned enterprise, Dongfeng had entered into numerous joint ventures to produce automobiles under foreign brands, but its foray into selling vehicles... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

automobiles that once cost more than a house are now cheaper, better, and available to all income classes. Indeed, the word "Toyota" is now used as shorthand to identify low-cost, high-quality goods and services. Q: Your article... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

has quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad outcomes related to automobile pollution. And they have also quantified the time benefit, finding that the BRT so far has reduced a 90-minute trip to 45 minutes. With a projected... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

United States Automobile Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003). Collins, Robert M. More: The Politics of... View Details

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money borrowed from our children. As... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

manufacturer of switching power supplies, hoped to enter the market for gasoline-electric hybrid power trains for automobiles by being a major component and subsystem supplier. While most public awareness of hybrid vehicles fell to the... View Details