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01 Dec 2018
News

Competencies and Credentials

educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech company that produces... View Details

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

donation-only models, with 40.6 percent proposing a mixed model. And 5.2 percent intended to run entirely on revenue generated by the business; among these was fellowship recipient Joel Jackson, whose for-profit venture manufactures inexpensive off-road View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

distractions including Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo will be sold off; they're now meaningless. U.S.-based models like Mercury will be discontinued. Can Ford recover? The answer lies in whether the common vehicle platforms developed for... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

summer after she graduates from HBS. This Bay Area firm specializes in labeling and annotating data, creating high-quality datasets to inform use cases from autonomous vehicles to drones. Scale’s technology accelerates AI development by... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand

summer after she graduates from HBS. This Bay Area firm specializes in labeling and annotating data, creating high-quality datasets to inform use cases from autonomous vehicles to drones. Scale’s technology accelerates AI development by... View Details

Profile

Kaki Ettinger

"current" learning experiences, provided me with valuable tools to react to the dynamic, rapid pace of change in the constantly evolving media and technology space. My HBS experience instilled in me a desire to work at the forefront of innovation: to identify... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

28 May 2019
News

Turning Point: Into the Wild

on one of our host’s horses. It was a beautiful day, and as I rode I began to see all kinds of wildlife—impalas, dik-diks, wildebeests, giraffes. I got closer to the game on horseback than I ever could have in a vehicle because, to the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

process. "For one of the products in our sample, the designers had only coded about 30 percent of the new functionality before putting it into customers' hands," notes MacCormack. "From that point on, this early version of the product became a View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

manufacturer of switching power supplies, hoped to enter the market for gasoline-electric hybrid power trains for automobiles by being a major component and subsystem supplier. While most public awareness of hybrid vehicles fell to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

end of the semester. We ask students to make the theory reading the focus of class preparation, and then use the associated case as a vehicle to practice using the theory. As the course progresses, students find that they can use multiple... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Cathy A. Nichols

keeping an eye on capital costs are among the major challenges ahead. Of her goals, Nichols observes, "My desire is to build something I'm proud of - an excellent management team, a great product, and a significant value creation vehicle... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

who use lifelong e-mail forwarding addresses and to explore new ways of delivering relevant services and information using the dynamic vehicle of technology. The committee is currently exploring ways to provide computer training for... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

replacing their fleets with electric alternatives, because the fleet vehicles that are now being produced will have a lower total cost of ownership than the trucks they're currently using. So, you see huge orders by those companies. And... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

In 1996, while standing beside her car after she and her family had pulled over on a quiet roadside in upstate New York, Langer sustained devastating leg injuries after she was struck by a vehicle whose driver had fallen asleep at the... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

25 May 2011
News

Race to the Finish?

and Environment Initiative noted that the climate’s future requires that cities, the dominant settlement model of the 21st century, be much cleaner and more energy efficient. Cutting urban vehicle emissions is a big part of that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
News

Sea of Dreams

Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of the instruction that must have come before, but the exhilaration that came from... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

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