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  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) Willy Shih and Margaret PiersonHarvard Business School Case 612-071 The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

that was higher than consumers’ expectations. Immediately after receiving the quote, some callers queried whether the repair business would be willing to match the expected price published by the online automotive repair website... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

seals for automotive parts suppliers such as AutoZone and Parts Plus. Developed in 1997, the line continues to expand and contribute to the company’s overall sales, which totaled $2.6 billion in 2002. Delivering on the Details When Lauri... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 29 Mar 2011
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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
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

government to build Jeep Cherokees in China. Just over a decade later in 1996, leveraging contacts from his time in the automotive industry, he founded ASC Fine Wines with his son, Don Jr. Despite many challenges, from building a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

were more like them, too, whose careers were similar to the careers the students were pursuing," Sucher says. So the video series includes people like Hemant Luthra, now a top executive at Mahindra CIE Automotive in Mumbai, who is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars" from the winning designs. The case focuses on two key issues: Can Local Motors build a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag sensor switches for the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

have learned to accept myself for who I am. I finally found a sense of belonging not in where I am from or how I look, but in the people I am surrounded by. They do not see me as German, Chinese, or foreign. They do not see the automotive... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
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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
  • 28 Oct 2014
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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 industrial use. The OPOC engine has... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jun 2018
  • News

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

last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually add up across and down, and that... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-009 Designing Executive Compensation at Kongsberg Automotive (A) No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector because of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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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 electrical power outlets. With this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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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 $700 billion TARP fund, to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

application, based upon data from multiple APM systems. The research was conducted in collaboration with a European automotive company, using two months of live application data. We show that our model detects abnormal system behavior... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-056 Cox Automotive Media Group No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516056-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Lasting Impressions

became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg