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- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
was green-lighted for production, it took Local Motors 2 1/2 months to line up the suppliers, finish the design and get going on 3-D-printing of the parts. "From the time when we put all the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
years of on-site research at Toyota and its affiliates, in 1999 Spear and HBS professor H. Kent Bowen published a Harvard Business Review article titled "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
Photos courtesy of Mobius Motors Driving in Kenya can be a rough ride, over bumpy dirt roads and potholed urban streets, made worse by dust, heat, and torrential rain. View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
Jeffrey Immelt In the closest thing to a royal succession business has had in many a year, last September Chairman Jack doffed his crown, bid farewell to his subjects, and ceded rulership of the kingdom of GE to his handpicked successor,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
GM plant in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, has held senior management positions at GM, TRW, MeadWestvaco, and BorgWarner and currently is a SVP at PPG Industries. Niekamp, who oversees about 4,000 employees... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
grassroots campaign to curtail the power of the railroads and usher in a system of free roads. And perhaps most important, the automobile and its makers began to take the stage... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- News
The Federator
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
and Environment Initiative noted that the climate’s future requires that cities, the dominant settlement model of the 21st century, be much cleaner and more energy efficient. Cutting urban View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
global market, electric vehicles have become a government imperative. European Union member states, for instance, are preparing to implement the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive, which mandates the buildup of publicly accessible... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
Motors to seize market leadership. Why did Henry Ford, who was such a visionary in the industry’s infancy, fail to see that the Model T was about to run its course and that a smooth transition to a new View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
New England elites — Massachusetts Investors Trust chairman Merrill Griswold, MIT president Karl T. Compton, and Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the first Congressman to publicly upbraid Joseph McCarthy. Fresh from the U.S. victory in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other financial things that have the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rocket fly more than 62 miles up in the sky on November 23, deliver a vehicle into suborbital space, and return to Earth intact on a landing pad a few miles away. The experience was visceral: A sonic boom... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from the extended HBS network around... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
emissions by more than 30 percent; create housing for an expected 1 million new residents; expand and improve public transportation; cut solid waste in landfills by 75 percent; and achieve the cleanest air... View Details