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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
in promoting electric vehicle (EV) adoption. As acting director of Global E-Mobility at the research non-profit, the World Resources Institute, she straddles the intersection of the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources as well as the... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and where to cut was clearly a plus for Carlos Ghosn, who is not a GE alumnus but is one of the cases we teach on a new CEO widely known for transforming the nearly bankrupt Japanese auto manufacturer Nissan into one of the world's most successful View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
in 2013 and is currently working on driverless cars—could offer cities an even deeper data stream. “When you start incorporating data generated from cars directly, you’ll be able to make much smarter transportation decisions, make much... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous vehicle on the road.” Local... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
negotiation theory, Professor Subramanian explores the common situation in which negotiators are “fighting on two fronts” — across the table but also on the same side of the table with competitors. This is a guide for all involved in buying or selling everything from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
by over 2.7 million pounds per year. That’s equivalent to taking 265 cars off the road for one year, saving 139,000 gallons of gasoline or 2,848 barrels of oil. For Harvard as a whole, loan-fund projects have yielded an average 25 percent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
see their business suffer, as American car manufacturers have, Gore noted. In attacking the climate crisis, Gore concluded, the rest of the world will follow if America provides leadership. “This is the only crisis that has threatened the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
jobs that provide a sense of dignity for individuals.” Terry is riding the crest of the electric vehicle wave. The White House has an aspirational target of 50% of all new cars sold in the U.S. being zero-emissions models by 2030. And... View Details
- Portrait Project
Xenia Yashina
Dad mounts it and speaks. As usual, half of the town is out today. People listen, applaud, cry. Then the evil car comes, and people in military apparel arrest my dad. Mom is crying, but I am not afraid. I know dad will come back – and we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
consumers trade down to models that stress good value, such as cars with fewer options. Tough times favor multi-purpose goods over specialized products, and weaker items in product lines should be pruned. In grocery-products categories,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
asking him about a recent club he joined where a group of men meet once a month to cook and enjoy fine wine together. She said her husband became so enraptured in discussing the group’s activities that he stayed seated in the car when... View Details
- Web
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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
he said, to create a green energy industry that has the potential to be much larger than telecom. Key elements are legislation that is raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars from 25 mpg to 35 mpg; providing $80 billion in stimulus... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
engineering internships near my hometown to spend time with my family while I figured it out. I didn’t get Nielsen; however, I did get all the engineering internships at big oil and gas companies and an internship at one of the biggest View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several new View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
sent you to the Web site where you could see the films in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner of car chases and plot twists. Because it was kind of an underground thing, young people... View Details