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- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
trying something new." No direct path, yet a destination emerges Over the next two years, James would fulfill roles at three different startups until he found a fourth, Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which proved to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bianca Tabourn
mirror. Buy my mom the house I promised her when I was 13-years old. Buy my father the car I promised him just yesterday. Be remembered as the woman who erased the achievement gap between minority and white students. Have my grandmother... View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro’s TED Talk, available here: Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business | TED. Ifedolapo Runsewe is the Managing Director of Freee Recycle Limited, an industrial plant that transforms used View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
front of a faux dashboard. A large monitor simulated the view through a windshield as a car drove on a quiet suburban street. On one side of the road, a woman walked casually down the bike lane. On the other, a young boy with a backpack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
driverless? Is it an advertising space? A connected entertainment center? A personal transportation sanctuary? —Jeff Zeller (MBA 2016) KAPOOR: The internal space will be very different. Up until now, cars have been designed for a scenario... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
“Today, the car is a mobile computing platform,” says Mistele. “We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services around it.” For example, INRIX uses machine learning to provide customized daily routing advice... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
travels 100 miles on a single battery charge. Ghosn notes that 80 percent of the world’s daily driving is less than 50 miles. While electric car owners can charge up at home in a multihour process (usually overnight), Ghosn envisions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jun 2013
- News
A Common Purpose
For MBA 2007 Section E Cochairs Kara Medoff Barnett and Amy Belkin, their 5th Reunion was an opportunity to temper grief with renewed connections. In the fall of 2011, sectionmate Haydar Shaydullin was struck and killed by a car in Moscow... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sundus Husain
"Courage," I thought, "it's a toy pistol." I had never seen a gun before. But now I was standing with one pointed at my head. My mother had spied car thieves from our balcony and had raced down, barefoot and alone. So... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Hudson Motor Cars plant. At top left, a photo (circa 1934) by Fred C. Seely, titled “Combination slicing and wrapping machine,” taken at the Continental Baking Company, features an American icon, Wonder Bread. To view the Baker exhibit,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Mahoney
People Might Think. In class recently, a classmate suggested in 30 years cars may not touch the roads when they drive, which led to a small chorus of laughter from others as if to say "that's ridiculous." In that moment, when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Organic Matter
above: Neil Black (left) and N. Ross Buckenham at a California Bioenergy partner dairy in Bakersfield, California (photo by Christina Gandolfo) Cars and coal—not cows—are most frequently cited as drivers of climate change. But bovine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
production Bluetooth technology inside cars has been a factor. As recently as eight or nine years ago, if you wanted to use an MP3 player or an iPod in the car, you’d have to hook it up to one of those old cassette deck adapters. Now you... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Portrait Project
Irene So
First of all, I want to buy my dad a big, fancy new car. When I was growing up, he always wanted a Lincoln Continental. Year after year he tooled around in his old Plymouth Reliant, dreaming that it was a Lincoln, and year after year the purchase of Dad's new View Details
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Transportation - Business & Environment
changes to all transportation modes will reduce greenhouse gases that cause climate change: Airplanes Alternative fuels and technologies to increase aircraft efficiency Cars & Electric Vehicles Hybrid cars, battery and plug-in vehicles... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
Knowing that not every American who has a dream to start a business can come to Harvard Business School, Casey Gerald (MBA 2014) decided to bring HBS to them. He and three classmates logged 8,000 miles in two cars during an eight-week... View Details
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Sydney Williams
There’s nothing like having the illusion shattered that everything on your team and at your company is fine. But here I was bawling my eyes out in my car because there are no private spaces in a warehouse dealing with COVID, and... View Details
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Bearing engineer and his three dimensional graph - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
science can point with precision to the specific lubricant which will give best possible service. Hitherto considered dry and abstract to the layman, such work saves years of hit and miss testing in the driving of many cars to arrive at... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
are physically challenged face—Brehm and his wife, Faith, were seriously injured in a 1993 car accident. He suffered a high-level spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia. "We were determined not to let this injury limit us. We've... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
Arthur flour is hailed by famous chefs such as Julia Child and Graham Kerr for its superior quality. Of the company's exacting standards, Sands noted, "A couple of years ago, we shipped back eleven freight cars of flour because it was... View Details