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- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
in the average company in America, 25 percent of employees are directly dealing with addiction; 9 percent have an addiction problem themselves and 16 percent have a dependent or immediate family member with the problem,” D’Antonio says.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
the case “Nestlé: The World’s Largest Food Company Confronts Climate Change” to explore how the company is striving to achieve its sustainability objectives without sacrificing short- term performance and... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
my time with the companies I worked for,” says Timken, who envisions returning to business (perhaps in Europe, perhaps with a start-up) when he retires from the El Monte force in ten years. “But when I reached 30, a lot of life forces hit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
business? Sarah Ford (MBA 2007)’s experience with Amazon highlights its allure and drawbacks. In 2012, Ford founded Ranch Road Boots, a high-end shoe company inspired by her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Robert McNamara Dies at 93
Motor Company as a“whiz kid,” eventually becoming its president briefly before the Kennedy administration tapped him to be Secretary of Defense. He became known as the architect of the Vietnam War, a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
During the 2009 global recession, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) helped Ford Motor Company avoid government-financed bankruptcy. Now, as president and CEO, he is focused on serving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
Ford was in many ways a brilliant man. But he was painfully unaware of his blind spots. This ignorance cost him and his company a great deal. Don’t let the same happen to you. — HBS professor Richard S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
the paper, reading books.” —Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994), president, the Americas, Ford Motor Company, on the company’s recovery strategy “[We] met as a team and committed to each other that we were going to find... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Ford Motor Company, and AT&T to multicultural markets. “Even though there are so few people in the industry who look like me, I understand that I should belong, I do belong, and that I have an important... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
automotive at that point. It was almost as if it was on a blacklist somewhere.” Yet by the fall of 2007, Local Motors had secured $2 million in funding and formed a partnership with the Massachusetts-based “kit car” View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
marketing in the early stages of a drug's development. In a lunchtime address, Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, touched on a number of experiences from his 33 years at the auto giant,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
Roy D Shapiro, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (at right), shares a laugh with Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
helped promote highway construction. Some complements to the automobile already existed. One was loans - but here, too, carmakers took an active hand in making them more accessible and attractive. First General Motors and then View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903.... View Details