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Kathleen Hebert

Driving ahead In her second year at HBS, Kathleen would like to "work independently with a professor to think through my family's business model. Can we effectively roll out a nationwide network of luxury car dealerships? What... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Competencies and Credentials

educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest

I was a kid. Our house was bugged. My father would say, ‘Hey, watch that car behind us. He’ll drop off in two blocks, and another car will pick us up.’ That was kind of fun.” Joyride: A Ducati Pikes Peak.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitality

01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click

services for leisure and small-business travelers. Consumers enjoy one-stop shopping for airline tickets, car rentals, vacation packages, hotels, and cruises, as well as a wealth of travel news and merchandise. "Preview Travel and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

Jan 2014
Case

Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move

decreasing popularity of cars and increasing urban populations—have implications for 21st century transportation and infrastructure. This is apparent in the case of Chicago, a global city in the vanguard of change. This paper focuses on... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically making the rounds. The View Details

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

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

purchasers to explore categories and products, compare brands in the same category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

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Map & Directions | About

Map & Directions View on Google Maps Find a Building on Google Maps Directions by Car From Logan Airport: Follow signs for I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike/Ted Williams Tunnel). Take I-90 West to exit #20 for Brighton/Cambridge. See... 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 2003
News

Good Day Sunshine

implement the $365,000 project. Robertson and Cook, copresidents of the HBS Sustainable Development Society, say the panels will provide 15 to 25 percent of Shad’s daily electricity needs and eliminate carbon dioxide emissions equal to what 220 View Details

Portrait Project

Ryan Kauppila

cashiers, a heads-up penny, and padiddles should be acknowledged. HBS has taught me to use clichés and analogies liberally – simple declarative sentences are worse than C-SPAN reruns. 'Over-animated' is a compliment. Bad bosses and car... View Details

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

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year begin selling battery-powered... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate champions. Generating electricity... View Details

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Pranav Kothari

materials used for industrial applications, like car fabrics." For Pranav, an MBA would give him a chance to develop necessary management skills and test his ideas. HBS topped his list of possibilities. "While working, I... View Details

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Andreas Jaegle

Economics at Oxford. When Andreas returned, he took on his favorite assignment yet, “a four-month project for a car manufacturer advising them on their China strategy – a great way to see the real challenges faced by multi-national... 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

Portrait Project

Kate Lewis

When I was little, I loved watching my mother get ready for work each morning. After putting on her skirt suit, Mom applied some makeup – "war paint" in her words – and let me pick out a pair of heels so she would be taller than the boys. In the View Details

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