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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
collection of those conversations. One quick note, the first interview was recorded in our offices and the rest of them took place on campus during reunions. OK. On to the episode. I'm Jimmy Childre from OPM '18. When I finished college I went to work in my father's... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
the highest echelons of power. A Place of Refuge: Book Four of First Light By Linda Cardillo (MBA 1978) Bellastoria Press In 1971, a near-fatal automobile accident throws Izzy Monroe’s life into upheaval after a traumatic brain injury... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in particular, how the "focused... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
no-nonsense manager.” “When I get called, it's generally because there's an operational or financial problem, and people have decided it's time to cease talking about it and do something,” he told the Associated Press (June 19, 2002). Airlines and View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
nor is it the question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king." IT decisions, however, should not be based on functionality, says McAfee, who takes an example from the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Former Bulletin Editor Remembered
Edward Lovell ("Ted") Anthony II (MBA '52), who served as editor of this magazine from 1962 to 1981, was killed in an automobile accident on November 18 in Maui, Hawaii. He was 80 years old. A 1943 graduate of Harvard College, Anthony... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Ford and Alfred Sloan Corporate strategy and marketing techniques used by pioneers in the American automobile industry Japanese Capitalism How a late developer caught up fast with the West and in some industries surpassed it Toyoda... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Last Look
the summer of 1946 or 1947, although budding trees may suggest an earlier season and the automobile (at lower right) a later year. HBS research associate Joan McCue also suspects a picnic may be in progress, or that mothers working or... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Manufacture City, a major production site for Taiwan-based Quanta Computer; Alibaba, the internet business giant, located in Hangzhou; and Wanxiang, the automobile components firm set to debut an electric car in the United States.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
husband, an importer of automobile parts, began considering some big changes. Beilharz quit her job to care for her first child and stayed home as her brood grew to four — now ages 9 through 18. In 1998, the family left Austin for an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
Here, of course, I’m thinking of the Big Three automobile manufacturers. They, of course, are only the first of many companies that will line up in Washington saying, “We need a bailout because otherwise we’re going to have to lay off our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
smuggling, and tax evasion. Armed bodyguards protect him on his frequent travels around the country. During a visit in 2001 to a major automobile factory, Djelic and other officials explained to employees that thousands of them would have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The British View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
that, and over the next several years conducted pathbreaking work on the international automobile industry and other complex topics. Written by Robert H. Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, and Professor Marco... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young