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    Charles S. Davis

    In 1928, fifteen auto parts manufacturers merged to form Borg-Warner Corporation with Davis as president. Davis expanded Borg-Warner’s reach until the firm included 27 subsidiaries and operated 30 manufacturing plants in eight states, Canada, and England. In addition... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

      Philip Caldwell

      Caldwell was the first CEO of Ford who was not a member of the family. He is credited with orchestrating one of the most dramatic and successful turnarounds in business history. Through his focus on quality, commitment to research, and open employment practices, he... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

        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
        • June 2025
        • Case

        Larry Culp at General Electric: Rebuilding an American Icon

        By: Nitin Nohria, Kayti Stanley, Ashka Stephen and Drew Goydan
        As he takes over as CEO of the iconic industrial giant General Electric, Larry Culp faces a range of urgent issues as the company is delisted from the DJIA and is seen by many as heading towards bankruptcy. Culp steers GE through a series of carefully thought-out moves... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; North America; Europe
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        • July 15, 2022
        • Article

        Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

        By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
        Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he... View Details
        Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Vision; Resources; Organization; Platform; Closed Systems; Leadership; Complexity; Organizational Design; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Success; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry
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        • 11 Dec 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

        Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected... View Details
        Keywords: by Staff; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace; Aerospace
        • April 2017
        • Case

        Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy

        By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
        Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI) had a bold, some said crazy, vision: to mine asteroids. One might have assumed that developing the right technology would be the greatest challenge facing PRI. But even if the fledgling company could develop and deploy the sophisticated... View Details
        Keywords: Property; Rights; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry
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        • 06 Feb 2023
        • Blog Post

        Meet the Black Investment Club

        aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was on space exploration, product... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
        • August 2023
        • Case

        Salma Qarnain: Spaceships to Broadway

        By: Leslie Perlow, Mel Martin and Hannah Weisman
        Salma Qarnain, daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, is an engineer trained at Stanford and MIT. She began her career building spacecrafts but 30 years later finds herself pursuing her calling, acting on Broadway. The case explores Qarnain’s career path, family... View Details
        Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Talent and Talent Management; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Boston; California
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        • February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
        • Case

        Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

        By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
        Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details
        Keywords: SPACs; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Green Technology; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; City; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Market Timing; Industry Growth; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Germany; Munich; Brazil; United States; Florida
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        • 17 Jun 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: June 17, 2008

        founders reacquired many of the assets of the company and focused it on industrial and military applications. The case focus presents a question of whether the company should sell out again, this time to a military aerospace firm.... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • June 2020
        • Supplement

        TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
        This courseware accompanies the case "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Valuation; Negotiation; Cash Flow; Contracts; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States
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        • Web

        Faculty & Advisors | MBA

        launch GoGirl Finance, worked in media at Bad Boy Entertainment, and co-founded two student groups while at Harvard: Harvard Ventures & HackHarvard. Mike Cassidy MBA ’91, Harvard University; BS & MS, Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts... View Details
        • 01 Jun 2011
        • News

        Mr. Start-Up

        $1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two degrees in View Details
        Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
        • 02 Mar 2016
        • News

        The New Space Race

        examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details
        Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
        • May 1996
        • Case

        Honeywell Defense Avionics

        By: D. Quinn Mills and Paul Clark
        Keywords: Information Technology; National Security; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry
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        • 13 Jul 2016
        • News

        From Money to Ministry

        He handled lending for the airline and aerospace industry during deregulation and many reorganizations. “I learned about relationship banking, as opposed to now, where it’s all about the deal, all quite transactional, to my dismay.”... View Details
        Keywords: Margie Kelley
        • 18 Feb 2021
        • Blog Post

        SIPs in 2021

        next-gen aerospace and defense projects. “Bootcamp truly supercharged our startup's development,” said the Hue Beauty team. “We went from an idea to a prototype with real paying customers in a matter of weeks. The final pitch presentation... View Details
        • 06 Dec 2021
        • News

        New Wave

        Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details
        Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
        • 30 Jul 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: July 30

        Business School Case 213-080 FX Risk Hedging at EADS In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro... View Details
        Keywords: Anna Secino