Automotive - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

appropriate staffing, and store layout. Everyone in retailing knows this, but basics are boring, and it's easy to lose sight of them. The U.S. automotive industry offers a cautionary tale of the perils of not tending to the basics. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

26 Mar 2019
First Look

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 Sep 2017
First Look

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

12 Apr 2016
First Look

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

28 Oct 2014
First Look

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

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

forging strategic partnerships with targeted customers: dealers and end-use consumers. Partnering With Suppliers The success of many companies—retailers such as Sears, The Limited, and Wal-Mart; electronic companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems;... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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

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

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