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  • July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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Shih, Willy. "Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM." Harvard Business School Case 625-003, July 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
  • 26 Jan 2018
  • HBS Seminar

John Helveston, Boston University

  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

future direction in an automotive industry in the midst of a digital tornado with the arrival of autonomous, internetworked, clean-energy-propelled vehicles. Palmer’s Second Century Plan called for Aston... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

Departing from prior work that has mainly focused on examining the antecedents and consequences of dishonesty, we examine two approaches to mitigating unethical behavior: (1) values-oriented approaches that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

department stores and a new hypermarket—Nagesh was proud of the way the company had taken retail from its roots in simple transactions to a complete "experience" defined by the luxurious ambiance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Hiring Organizations

Capital Tucker's Farm Corporation Tulip Interfaces Turner Contemporary Two Sigma Typeface U U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of the... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Eigenfactor scores are readily computed for collectives such as departments or institutions. We show that a collective's Eigenfactor score can be computed either by summing the Eigenfactor scores of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

vehicle lifecycle emissions, and why the company has so far avoided setting a phase-out date for internal combustion engine BMWs. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org. Guest/Host: Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

potential to bump up to $10 based on performance and attendance) to turn out the door panels, bumpers, and other parts for vehicles that include the VW Atlas and Passat. With three plants in the area, all of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

the wheel of a Rolls-Royce he’d shipped across the Atlantic for the occasion. Wallner was stunned. “I thought, ‘Why on earth would you bring a bloody motor car here?’ ” In the friendship that followed,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

Website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's rounded average rating, I can identify the causal impact View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Electric Home Rebate Program,[23] geared towards helping low- and moderate-income households upgrade for clean energy and energy efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates this will “save households... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been pockets View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 05 Jul 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

the sale, delivery, or furnishing of alcohol to persons under the age of 21. Community members are reminded that there are heavy penalties, including imprisonment, for possession or distribution View Details
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

maintenance, and repair of electric vehicle charging equipment. Ellis’s previous experience with the US Department of Labor’s Job Corps, where... View Details
  • Web

Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

took off by the mid-1960s, and in 1956, along with a syndicate of other banks, Lehman Brothers made an initial public offering of the Ford Motor Company. Lehman Brothers also... View Details
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