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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
And the capital of innovation wasn't Silicon Valley. It was Detroit. And at the time, the top three car companies were there and hundreds of entrepreneurs were building car companies where company service is... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
car dealers. I think they also called on some other VCs and no one invested. But I was torn because I really like the CEO, Langley Steinert, and have known and respected him for a long time. What I learned is that great people (like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
local car dealers. Is there any place you haven’t been that you’d like to visit? Sub-Saharan Africa. GE now has a presence in countries like Angola, Nigeria, and Tanzania. I like being able to identify personally with every place we do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
been five days of massive rain. The dirt and gravel path was soggy and spongy. That reduced my average speed from around 14 to 8 miles per hour. By the end of the day, I was still about 25 miles away from Rochester, in a little town called Albion. There was nothing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The book concludes with an exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
With some 30,000 employees, CSX operates a fleet of approximately 220,000 freight cars on 21,000 miles of track in 23 eastern states and two Canadian provinces. Manufacturers rely on railroads for the shipment of raw materials, such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to support them. Kenyans seem open to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
train to work. And I'd always take the black car home because you really never came home until midnight or something like that. And people ask me to this day, hey, what was it like to live in New Jersey? You know? And I'm just like, you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how General Motors prices its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
any such occurrence." Seated at his desk, Lhota suddenly heard "a screeching noise" and then an explosion. He ran to the front steps of City Hall, where a police officer told him that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, five blocks away. Thanks... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
including the Hennepin County Human Services building just down the street. Jamil Ford: I just so happened to be at another notable individual’s funeral. Mrs. April Estes was at the funeral for his service. And I was assisting her into the View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
their own. Noise of the May Day rally begins around 4:30 a.m. in Havana. Drums thump, car horns bleep, a low din of bustling humanity builds. Eventually, nearly 900,000 Cubans will march in the parade commemorating International Workers’... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
bullet hole in his car Courtesy David Horgan David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) is the managing director of the oil companies Petrel Resources and Pan Andean, based in Dublin, Ireland. Baghdad last June was a crazy scene of damage and destruction... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on a Texas View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg