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    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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    Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

    the vast array of manufactured goods. As Elspeth Brown notes in The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture 1884–1929 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), at that time “the influence of applied... View Details
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    Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

    The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits For the first few decades of automobile history, cars were luxury items. The people who bought them did so for... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

    search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 15 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

    dramatically weakened portfolio of both current and future products. Although much attention has been focused on electric cars, hybrids, and fuel cells, I believe that the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Auto
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    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the... View Details
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    The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

    steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Too Much of a Good Thing?

    manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
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    Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    "the role of industry is to sense a deep human need, then bring science and technology to bear on filling that need." 9 As automobile ownership increased exponentially through the 1920s, Land aligned his research of polarizers with what... View Details
    • 18 Dec 2019
    • Book

    6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

    means, including Machiavellian ones, if necessary, to bring together people with conflicting goals and spur them into action. When the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry tried to restrict Honda from entering the automobile... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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    Charts & Statistics - Leadership

    popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 KDKA, first radio station First talking movie, Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography Air-conditioning begins to realize... 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... View Details
    • 01 Aug 1998
    • News

    High Honors

    expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a... View Details

      Charles W. Nash

      Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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      Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

      HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details

        Walter P. Chrysler

        In 1924, Chrysler created a car, which bore his name, and offered new innovations to the automobile, including the four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a high compression engine. In 1928, Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers Company for its View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

          William Durant

          Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the View Details
          Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
          • 01 Jun 2012
          • News

          Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

          lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
          Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

            Ray W. Herrick

            Herrick left Ford Motor Company in 1930 to start a small automobile parts manufacturing operation. Four years later, fearing a dependency on the volatile auto industry, he turned his attention to the new... View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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            Site Credits - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

            shells , ca. 1937. Automobile Industry Photograph Collection. Drilling . Photographer Dick Whittington, Los Angeles, California. General File Photograph Collection. Product Dept. – Fourth Floor . National Acme View Details
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