Cars - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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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

04 Sep 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

autonomous-driving technology obviously could have incredible societal benefits. Building a safe, self-driving car is the greatest engineering challenge of our lifetime. I think we’re going to get there sooner than we think, especially in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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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

John H. McConnell

Borrowing $600 by using his car as collateral, McConnell founded Worthington Industries in 1955 and guiding it into a premier manufacturer of steel and other metal-based products. From its inauspicious beginnings, Worthington has grown... View Details

Keywords: Metals

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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; green business; agriculture; alternative energy; Agriculture

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Wilson Kyi

Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and... View Details

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Leena Kevan Nash

reminding myself when I am driving and become impatient to "let the other car in." I will always dream of those things I could have done differently yesterday, of how I can make the most of what life brings me today, and of the... View Details

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Alok Sanghvi

"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. Today, I'm more concerned with the... View Details

William Bernbach

Bernbach catapulted the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency into national prominence with innovative and creative campaigns. Doyle Dane Bernbach broke into the front ranks of advertising agencies with successful national campaigns for Volkswagen and Avis Rent A... View Details

Keywords: Services

Edward G. Budd

During the 1910s and 1920s, Budd constructed a successful business supplying car bodies, including an all-steel sedan body, to auto manufacturers such as General Motors, Studebaker, Ford and Chrysler. In the 1930s, Budd pioneered the... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an assembly line and take its place in history. Basking under the hot lights of a showroom, or... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

Edward G. Gardner

Gardner began mixing hair and beauty products for blacks out of his basement during the 1940s. Around 1960, he began working for another beauty supply business and when it went bankrupt, Gardner took its customers and began producing his own line of Soft Sheen... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Project Beacon had VUCA written all over it. Huber's team spent a few weeks brainstorming ideas of what Project Beacon should be and do—a daunting task for a guy who knew little about the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

behavior, would be of great value. Negotiation researchers also frequently advise negotiators to learn as much as they can about the other party (Thompson 2001). Perhaps the most vivid consumer negotiation is car buying, a process many... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

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