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Mobility Policy | About

technology are bringing a wide range of personal mobility devices to the market. This policy seeks to provide a safe environment for all users of campus pathways and roadways. What devices fall under this policy? Motorized bicycles : A... View Details

    Charles S. Mott

    Under Mott’s management, the family owned company grew into a key supplier of automobile parts for General Motors. Realizing the great future of the automobile industry, Mott changed the firm’s activity from bicycle wheel production and... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

      James E. Casey

      Starting with two bicycles and $100 in capital in 1907, Casey went on to build one of the most respected and recognized companies of the 20th century – United Parcel Service. UPS’s trademark brown delivery vehicles have become synonymous... View Details
      Keywords: Transportation
      • April 2024 (Revised February 2025)
      • Teaching Note

      eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-360.The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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      • August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
      • Case

      eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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      • 2005
      • Case

      Shimano: An Exemplar of the Japanese Approach to Knowledge

      By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
      Keywords: Knowledge Management; Bicycle Industry
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      • August 1996
      • Teaching Note

      Montague Corporation (A) and (B) TN

      By: Norman A. Berg and Judith Maas
      Teaching Note for (9-395-037) and (9-395-143). View Details
      Keywords: Bicycle Industry; Taiwan; Cambridge
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      • 02 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

      rising cost, as manifested in violations of covered interest rate parity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51348 Harvard Business School Case 917-539 Yushan Bicycles: Learning to Ride Abroad Yushan Bicycles, one of Taiwan's leading... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • Portrait Project

      Andrea Heckbert

      “Dad’s been in a bad accident, you need to come home.” My mom’s voice shook with tears on the phone. It was the May before I started at HBS. My father had been in a terrible bicycle crash that left him with multiple facial and spinal... View Details
      • April 1995
      • Supplement

      Montague Corporation (B)

      By: Norman A. Berg
      Presents David Montague's evaluation of the progress so far and the basic problems that he believes prevent him from achieving higher sales. Designed as a class handout after discussion of the (A) case. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Problems and Challenges; Bicycle Industry
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      • April 1995
      • Case

      Montague Corporation (A)

      By: Norman A. Berg and James Weber
      The Montague Corp. is a small company started in 1987 and owned by David Montague, age 31, and his father. The company designs, manufactures in Taiwan, and sells through distributors worldwide a high-quality "bicycle that folds." The company offices are located in... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Globalized Firms and Management; Family Business; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan; Cambridge
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      • December 2011 (Revised April 2012)
      • Case

      On Two Wheels in Paris: The Vélib' Bicycle-Sharing Program (Supplement)

      By: Peter A. Coles and Elena Corsi
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Contracts; Negotiation; Growth and Development Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Paris
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      • Portrait Project

      Leo Chang

      Cultural Revolution. My baton is dusty from my parents' long journey to America, where the former engineers humbly washed dishes and delivered takeout on a loaned bicycle to make ends meet. Every time I put on a suit, present in a... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2003
      • News

      HIV/AIDS and Business

      she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for... View Details
      Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
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      Trade Catalog Collection | Baker Library

      Trade Catalog Collection Columbia bicycles / Pope Manufacturing Company. Boston, Mass.: Pope Manufacturing Co., 1895. Special Collections & Archives has a rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject... View Details
      • 01 Sep 2024
      • News

      The Road Less Traveled

      the most popular worldwide choice for getting around—even for the short, solo trips that make up most of driving life in dense cities and sprawling suburbs. Swapping in smaller, energy-efficient electric vehicles, like bicycles and... View Details
      Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
      • 01 Dec 2005
      • News

      Pedal Mettle

      The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor... View Details
      Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
      • June 2013
      • Supplement

      Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Video Supplement)

      By: Jim Sharpe
      This is the Video Supplement for Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (HBS Case #808087). View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Consumer Products; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation; General Managers; Growth; Growth Management; International; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Channels; Founding; Channels Of Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Leadership; Bicycle Industry; United States
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      • January 1993 (Revised May 2004)
      • Teaching Note

      Mile High Cycles (TN)

      By: William J. Bruns Jr.
      Teaching Note for (9-191-056). View Details
      Keywords: Bicycle Industry
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      • Portrait Project

      Monica Gupta Adractas

      I am living the life of a five year old girl I have never met. A stranger I imagine. She has pigtails, is dirty, poor, and is busy fetching water in the slums of India. A bicycle rushes past me and I awake to find myself well-dressed,... View Details