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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 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Meanwhile, the United States has become increasingly less open as both of its political parties espouse protectionist policies. A few examples: New passenger cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Boston’s ancient... View Details
- Profile
Carolin Oldenbuettel
worked on a project to optimize the target costing management system, aligning new car models to feasible costs,” she says. “What I like about the auto industry is that they’re more and more influenced by tech—self-driving cars, for... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- Portrait Project
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
- Portrait Project
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
- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
cutting-edge Chinese brands like Lenovo and Haier suffer when the misbehaviors of corrupt Chinese businessmen and government officials drag China's image down. Pretty soon, China will be exporting cars. Cars are a benchmark product that... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
process for getting out. An expert on finance and a director of the Harvard Management Company, Light opened his remarks with this analogy: “The past year and a half or so has been a slow-motion train wreck. About every three months or so, another View Details
Morton L. Mandel
Starting with $900 and an order for hard to find car parts, Mandel and his brothers built one of the largest and most highly regarded specialty parts (electronic and industrial components) suppliers in the United States. By sourcing... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
platform that connects pet owners with pet sitters and dog walkers; Rob Infantino, CEO and founder of OpenBay, which connects car owners with repair shops; Elsa Sze, founder and CEO of Agora, which facilitates online town hall meetings... View Details
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Brian Sykes
frustration as they recall a recent trip to my hometown. All too familiar with how this scene plays out, I ready myself for a discussion of the city’s much publicized faults. I cringe when I hear stories of frightening encounters with the mentally ill. Sprawling... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great part due to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power from View Details
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Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Engraving by Philip Galle (1537–1612), after Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574). [Antwerp, 1563]. 17 x 23 cm CF b11 First state. Plate four of his series of six engravings after Heemskerck with this title. Depiction of the qualities that accompany money: Queen Money's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
accurately and cost-effectively. MANAGER'S NOTEBOOK Crowdsourcing as an Innovation Tool "Look at what one of our alumni, Jay Rogers (MBA 2007), is doing with cars at Local Motors. He's figured out that the people inside his organization... View Details