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- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are... View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
been five days of massive rain. The dirt and gravel path was soggy and spongy. That reduced my average speed from around 14 to 8 miles per hour. By the end of the day, I was still about 25 miles away from Rochester, in a little town called Albion. There was nothing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
intriguing examples of advertising photography with models demonstrating special features of the cars as well as publicity stunts and events including cross-country races, goodwill tours, and celebrity appearances. The collection also... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
there for the Battle of Raqqa in the summer of 2017, which is where the book starts. I had my first experience interviewing one of the commanders then, who was walking around like she’s in Central Park but pointing at a car bomb that was... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
software. And many hardware vendors trumpet their ability to execute these algorithms or store their output quicker, faster and cheaper. New algorithms are seductive in exactly the same way features on a new car are seductive. But let's... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 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 disrespect to Detroit and California—they’re definitely hubs of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoors. I want to leave a world in which she can breathe the air, drink the water, and visit places that are still wild.” Ullman is proud to note that E2 was essential to the passage of a California law in July 2002 that limits carbon dioxide emissions from View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
time with their children. From an environmental impact standpoint, a good number of the roles that we place have some sort of remote work, so we’re saving commuting time and getting cars off the road.” Prokanga is also in the rigorous... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
a number of ghost towns along the Iditarod Trail with old dilapidated buildings and ruins and mining infrastructure, and there's all these random trucks and cars parked in the middle of nowhere and you're like, how did this get here? It... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
Prius, would be a good example. In spite of great technological innovation, the Prius drives like any other car on the road. As a result, consumers don't need to change anything about the way they interact with their automobiles. Other... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
companies and economies the world over. To look at one example, the Chinese are threatening in their President Trump response to increase tariffs on American-made cars. We’ve already seen that German car maker BMW, which exports its... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
from initial research phases, to brainstorming, to concept development and prototyping. The results? A car that might feature a personalized hood ornament and an interior with pulsating floor lights, customized seat covers, and an onboard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to support them. Kenyans seem open to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee