Auto - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2009
News

Can’t Forget the Motor City

’85), key players on the presidential task force that’s deciding what to do about the U.S. auto industry. As a longtime special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union, Bloom previously used skills he honed at Lazard... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade; Transportation

Portrait Project

Paul Yeh

I am friends with the local police in four states and seven counties. They love me because they can always count on my lead foot to fill their speeding ticket quotas. I am the worst nightmare for Boston area auto dealers. Known as the... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar

facility in Indiana, where photovoltaic solar modules will be manufactured. Said Tiller, “Henry Ford transformed the auto industry with his assembly line. As we build to scale, our simpler process will give us the advantage” (Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Web

Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

models, and close-up views providing details of front grilles, trunks, interiors, and engines. The collection also contains printed materials from auto show press kits. Pontiac radiator shells , ca. 1937. U.S. companies represented... View Details

Profile

Carolin Oldenbuettel

worked on a project to optimize the target costing management system, aligning new car models to feasible costs,” she says. “What I like about the auto industry is that they’re more and more influenced by tech—self-driving cars, for... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

22 Apr 2008
News

The Next Harvard Square? Really?

warehouse has been next door to us forever. And what will become of Herb Goodman’s Auto Sales and his smiley-face sign in this new order of things? When my office on the third floor of Teele Hall looked out on Herb and his dealings, I... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

05 Jul 2011
News

Driving Innovation

joining Google in 2006, the former head of digital marketing at DaimlerChrysler has been helping Google get its approach to consumer marketers up to speed by drawing on her auto industry experience and a previous ten-year stint at IBM. As... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

XT4; and in Michigan, I drive a red Chevrolet Camaro. The auto industry has a reputation for being stodgy and bureaucratic, but that perception is outdated. I think the professional opportunities are unmatched when it comes to working on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism

Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Auto Ltd.Nancy M. Barry, President, Nancy Barry AssociatesBertrand P. Collomb, Honorary Chairman and Director, LafargeJorge Paulo Lemann, Founder, InBevDavid Murray, Chair of the Board, Guardians of the Future... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Dec 2011
News

A Deal on Wheels

came up with the CarLotz concept, were friends and former investment banking colleagues. After some HBS networking, the two found Montgomery, who was working in McKinsey & Company’s automotive practice and had previous experience running multiple View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

General Motors and others during apartheid. For General Motors, the issues had to do with employment policies and whether or not to sell autos in a repressive society. For companies like Cisco Systems and Microsoft, the question has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Dec 2013
News

Plugged In

When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and cost control... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making. Consider this hypothetical question posed in the paper: A. If you die in an auto accident, your heart will be used to save another person's life.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

grew it into the largest auto parts company in the world. Recently the company even helped bail out Detroit by investing in US auto parts companies that were going belly-up, and is becoming a leader in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Juan Camargo