Publications

May 1995
Teaching Note

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 1986 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for (9-295-033). View Details

Keywords: Rubber Industry

May 1995
Teaching Note

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 1988 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for (9-290-016). View Details

Keywords: Rubber Industry

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning of life." A distinguished authority on business history,... View Details

06 Feb 2014
News

Smartphones Make You Tired and Unproductive, Study Says

March 2007 (Revised April 2013)
Teaching Note

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao

Teaching note to 707494. View Details

Keywords: Rubber Industry; United States

10 May 2016
News

Global Warming Is Making You Tired At The Office

Article

Managerial Commitments and Technological Change in the U.S. Tire Industry

By: D. Sull, R. Tedlow and R. Rosenbloom

Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

1997
Working Paper

Managerial Commitments and Technological Change in the US Tire Industry

By: Donald N. Sull, Richard S. Tedlow and Richard S. Rosenbloom

June 2008
Case

Treadway Tire Company: Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at the Lima Plant

By: C. Wickham Skinner and Heather Beckham

Treadway Tire's plant in Lima, Ohio must confront strong job dissatisfaction and high turnover among its line foremen. The foremen are caught in the middle of an adversarial relationship between the union and management, and they must cope with the needs and interests... View Details

Keywords: Superior ＆ Subordinate; Labor Relations; Work Force Management; Human Resource Management; Hiring; Job Satisfaction; Management; Leadership; Retention; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Selection and Staffing; Satisfaction; Personal Development and Career; Labor and Management Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Ohio

Article

Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty

By: N. Mead, R. F. Baumeister, F. Gino, M. E. Schweitzer and D. Ariely

Keywords: Ethics

2001
Article

From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron Tire Cluster

By: Don Sull

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

From software that once came in a box to phone apps that do simple tasks, more products and services are moving to a subscription model—and consumers are feeling it. The average US consumer last year spent $273 a month on 12 paid subscriptions. People were already used... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

July 2001 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Recall 2000: Bridgestone Corp. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

In September 2000, the president of Bridgestone-Firestone, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp., was invited to appear before a U.S. congressional subcommittee investigating the August 2000 recall of more than 6.5 million tires made by the subsidiary. The... View Details

Keywords: History; Crisis Management; Business Processes; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry; Japan; United States

July 2005 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Recall 2000: Bridgestone Corp. (A) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine

In September 2000, the president of Bridgestone-Firestone, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp., was invited to appear before a U.S. congressional subcommittee investigating the August 2000 recall of more than 6.5 million tires made by the subsidiary. The... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Product; Trade; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Auto Industry; United States; Japan

May 1998 (Revised August 2017)
Case

DuPont Kevlar: Commercializing a Miracle Fiber

By: Clayton Christensen and Rory McDonald

Describes Dupont's efforts to build commercial markets for its miracle fiber, Kevlar. Initially, it sought to create a market for Kevlar tire cord, primarily because its existing tire cord business was languishing. This market never developed, even after Dupont spent... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Crisis Management; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Research and Development; Technology

November 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Goodyear: The Aquatred Launch (Condensed)

Goodyear is planning to launch an innovative new tire in a price sensitive and highly competitive category. The case deals with channel conflicts and management issues arising in mature product categories. View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Product Launch; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry

12 AM – 11:59 PM EDT, 13 Apr 2016

Take an Alum to Lunch Day

Are you tired of eating lunch at your desk alone? Want to make some new HBS friends and connections? Then join HBS alumni around the world for a new, unique networking event Take an Alum to Lunch Day Wednesday, April 13, 2016. It's simple: invite a... View Details

March 2020 (Revised January 2022)
Case

Michelin: Building a Digital Service Platform

By: Sunil Gupta and Christian Godwin

Michelin, a tire company with over a century of experience, attempts to develop a digital service platform for its fleet and dealer customers. The case focuses on the challenges of bringing a large, well-established company into the digital age. Concerned about the... View Details

Keywords: Change; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Leading Change; Growth and Development; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Auto Industry; Travel Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; France