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Leo Chang
Cultural Revolution. My baton is dusty from my parents' long journey to America, where the former engineers humbly washed dishes and delivered takeout on a loaned bicycle to make ends meet. Every time I put on a suit, present in a... View Details
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Kimball Thomas
In the third grade, Kimball Thomas sold chocolate-chip cookies door-to-door to save money for the bicycle he wanted. In college, his logistical and travel-arrangement skills were put to a higher test: as a White House intern for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
School at the age of nineteen, ultimately graduating cum laude as one of the first students to receive a joint MBA/JD degree and garnering honors as a Baker Scholar with high distinction from HBS. "Commuting by bicycle between the two... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
I was hired as the HBS Bulletin editor only about six months after John McArthur took over as the new Dean of the School. He was young - 46, younger than I am now, which I find sobering - but boy, I was really young. My local champion hid my View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
bicycle shop, Get a Grip, in Chicago. On the weekends, he and his buddies traveled to barbecue festivals around the country, camping out and staying up all night smoking ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. “I’m pretty competitive,” Corsello... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
the most popular worldwide choice for getting around—even for the short, solo trips that make up most of driving life in dense cities and sprawling suburbs. Swapping in smaller, energy-efficient electric vehicles, like bicycles and... View Details
- September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real
By: Daniel C. Snow, Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir
Columbus Tubing must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Production; Research and Development; Information Technology; Bicycle Transportation; Asia; Italy
Snow, Daniel C., Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi, and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir. "Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real." Harvard Business School Case 609-042, September 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
Spring 2005 Reunion photo galleries Open the gallery Photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg. View the reunion photo gallery archive Like climbing aboard a bicycle for the first time in many years, alumni... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not well-branded themselves, either... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
develop a folding bicycle with the look and feel of a traditional bike," Tripsas remarks. "But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn't... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
reception at the Fogg Art Museum. Women from the Class of 1971 held a breakfast in the Cumnock Conservatory, and the Class of 1966 bicycled through the fall foliage in suburban Lincoln. A Reunion first was an industry-specific networking... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
learning experience,” she said), briefly retired in her mid-30s for a stint as a snowboard bum in Colorado, and headed up Wisconsin’s Commerce Department as Secretary in Governor Jim Doyle’s administration. In addition, she worked in various capacities for her family’s... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
inefficient: We built this expensive track only to leave it vacant most of the time. PRT offers a different approach. With much lighter vehicles, the guideway can be proportionally slim—above ground in many areas, with a visual intrusion as small as an elevated View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a folding View Details
- May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Competition; Value Creation; Governance; Economics; Business Startups; Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; China
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Haibo Zhao. "Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 819-135, May 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might benefit from knowing driving routines in a geographic area. Even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
temperature drops to ninety degrees by evening. DD and I make about $600 a month between us and pay $90 in rent. We have bicycles that we ride to work and shopping. One of our schools is about six miles away, so we occasionally take a bus... View Details