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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
of it as superhuman—especially if AI is solving complicated problems such as 100 percent accuracy in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis. You have to help them understand that the performance of ML products improves over time (it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
the Charles and constantly found new territory to uncover in Boston. Also, there are a number of beautiful and historic towns close to Boston, so rent a car for the day and visit Portland, Kennebunkport (Megan's favorite), Ogunquit, York,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
this makes people feel happier about their jobs, according to the working paper Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions. Meanwhile, doing relaxing or purely pleasurable things on the way to the office, like listening to music in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
always to improve mobility, and he did so through his company’s engine innovations. After coming up with the company’s trademarked CVCC engine, Honda declared that his company had pulled ahead of the top three car companies, “but his... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
but I’m afraid of being trapped in a car with his reaction, be it revulsion, voyeuristic interest, or violence. Instead, I smile, nod, and feel so, so small. When single or dating men, the assumption that I’m straight is even more... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
their employees working. Some are big, like General Motors, a car company that's making ventilators. Others are small, mom-and-pop restaurants that are making up fruit-and-vegetable boxes for people and delivering them door-to-door.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom negotiation exercise with great success—and also generated plenty of controversy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
percent of cars from the city. We also completed a significant recapitalization of Altus Power, a market-leading solar power company that provides clean electricity to clients across the United States. We know that every sector of our... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
departments within the firm could query it for answers to questions ranging from optimal pricing to product design. What prevents this from materializing? After all, machine learning is delivering self-driving cars and beating human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea of GM View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
innovative practices or foster sustainability?” Giacomin sees a number of other research opportunities for studying clusters. Most of the world’s lithium—now in high demand because it’s used in so many electronic products and electric car... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
"It would have saved 400 lives a night." 18 He began discussions with automobile executives and engineers in 1932, including the head of General Motors research, Charles Kettering. Despite years of effort, Land ultimately failed to launch the headlight-polarizing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
something my parents use." Under her tenure, Godrej has been reinventing and relaunching products that millions of Indians use—inexpensive insect repellent—and aspire to buy—hair dyes and car aerosol. Nisa's aesthetic, what she calls... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
examples: Avis's classic slogan "we're number 2" emphasized that it was playing second fiddle to a giant in the rental car business. Oprah Winfrey's success is largely attributable to her ability to construct a repeating... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
including cars and refrigerators. It has projects in development with GM's OnStar and in cloud computing. In addition, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam sees small "pots of gold" everywhere in the business, even in the traditional... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
It's very enduring about this puppy who is on a farm, and the puppy manages to dig under the fence every day and run over to the barn where the majestic Clydesdales are. He hangs out in the barn with the Clydesdales all day. He's eventually adopted by someone, and as... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
remembers perching with a friend atop the backseat of his father's 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. "That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,"... View Details