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- February 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Exercise
Accounting for Pensions at General Motors Corporation (B)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
A potential investor in General Motor's stock reviews the retiree benefit note data included in the company's 2001 financial statements as part of the investment analysis of the company. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Accounting; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "Accounting for Pensions at General Motors Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Exercise 103-053, February 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
Abernathy, we used our experiences in the auto industry in Japan to better understand what was going on in productivity, quality, and innovation. I became an inveterate comparatist. And I've never met a... View Details
- July 15, 2022
- Article
Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?
By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Vision; Resources; Organization; Platform; Closed Systems; Leadership; Complexity; Organizational Design; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Success; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry
Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 15, 2022).
- December 2012
- Article
Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending
By: Jill Avery
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Building; Brand Equity; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Gender; Identity; Customer Focus and Relationships; Auto Industry; Auto Industry
Avery, Jill. "Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending." International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (December 2012): 322–336. (Article was awarded the Marketing Science Institute's Best Paper Award.)
- September 2003
- Supplement
Edmunds.com, Inc. (B)
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Bradley, Stephen P., and Erin Sullivan. "Edmunds.com, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 704-016, September 2003.
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company has also had to seek significant financial concessions from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2019
- Case
Experiencya Cuba: Two Entrepreneurs in Havana
By: Charles F. Wu, Mariana Cal and Fernanda Miguel
In 2019, two Cuban entrepreneurs discussed their growth strategy, given the regulatory framework instability, for private companies, in Cuba. Experiencya Cuba offered car and apartment rentals, airport pick-up, and tours around the island, all conducted in perfectly... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Regulatory Changes; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Tourism Industry; Tourism Industry; Cuba
Wu, Charles F., Mariana Cal, and Fernanda Miguel. "Experiencya Cuba: Two Entrepreneurs in Havana." Harvard Business School Case 220-024, August 2019.
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In particular, supportive incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
philanthropy and art collecting. But his legacy continues, saving millions of computer users from their worst nightmare. « Back Driven to Serve W. James Hindman (9th OPM) created Jiffy Lube - the nation's first quickie auto fluids change... View Details
- August 26, 2009
- Comment
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
By: John A. Quelch
Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
Keywords: Government Programs; Environmental Impact; Government Waste; Customer Behavior; Economic Growth; Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing; Programs; Value; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 26, 2009).
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Ford, for the auto itself and his influence on the work force," while another noted Ford's "perfection of the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, concepts employed by essentially all of business today." Alfred P. Sloan of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by the famous entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- December 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Supplement
Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
The case builds on the earlier (A) case, which described the origins of the Turkish business group established by Vehbi Koç before 1988. This case takes the story forward to 2012 as the Koç group was led by Vehbi's son Rahmi followed by his grandson Mustafa. It... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship; Management; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Central Asia; Middle East
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-078, December 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- August 1994
- Case
Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision
In the Spring of 1994, Saturn Corp. was setting sales records by attracting more than 25,000 buyers per month. Saturn officials believed there was a long-term opportunity to sell 400,000 to 500,000 cars per year in the United States and selected international markets.... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Production; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Tennessee; United States
McGahan, Anita M., and Greg Keller. "Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision." Harvard Business School Case 795-011, August 1994.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
therefore, to see how this law will be implemented in practice. In addition, there are likely to be some unintended negative consequences. Will the new derivatives rules pull in various industrial companies that will now have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also provides a detailed picture of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Influenza Drive-In Nation Judgment Day for the U.S. Auto Industry? The Producers What’s it like to make movies in Hollywood outside the big-budget studios? A handful of independent producers talk about the risky but rewarding business of... View Details