automotive - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-007 Fuyao Glass: Americas Sourcing Decision In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's second... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

211-044 Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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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industry focus as it covers diverse cases across sectors, including but not limited to investment banking, law, consulting, technology, non-profit organizations, the automotive industry, and professional sports. The cases also span the... View Details

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