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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
attempt was made to justify the investment for automakers on economic grounds. The projected return on the investment to serve Detroit was 6.5 percent, which fell below the investment hurdle rate of 8 to 10 percent used to evaluate other... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Steven Povich, MBTA Kelsey Roberts, City of Detroit Anuja Samuel, Equal Justice Initiative Leadership Fellows Press Release Alumni Achievement Recognized Each year Harvard Business School recognizes a small number of outstanding alumni by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
of excreted pollutants wither the leaves on the trees and sicken the livestock. We hate our cars, Detroit .They are expensive, murderous junk, and they manage to look glassily contemptuous of the people who own them.” (Pale Gray for... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Brown became chief executive officer of the Amsale Group, which includes the luxury bridal collections of Amsale, Christos, and Kenneth Pool. Carlton Guthrie MBA 1978 Carlton Guthrie is co-chairman and president of Detroit Chassis, one of... View Details
Michael Ilitch
Ilitch built a small take-out pizza shop in Detroit into a 4,700 chain enterprise. At a time when take-out food was still a novelty, Ilitch catered to an increasingly mobile and convenience-oriented population. His strategy was based on... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Feedback
42, 2012) It is not often that one can actually improve the quality of life for those in need. But SecondBite does that and more. Well done, Ian. —Leon Zwier via alumni.hbs.edu Motor City Momentum Re: Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) [I’m] so happy to read of these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
biotech job for Kirlin, a company her great-grandfather had founded. As she told the Detroit News (March 20, 2000), "Detroit is the hub of resources important to manufacturers like Kirlin. It was my first home. I could be part of the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
a community-based real estate project in Detroit. The best way I describe the D to people is layered and complex! There’s so much going on – the good, the bad, and the ugly – as the city works to redefine itself. After reaching back within my college network, I decided... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
Joseph Boyer
Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Portrait Project
Matt Simpson
rejected by it every day. A blue-collar kid from Detroit who wanted to work with cars didn’t fit the crowd. I was an outsider and made to feel it every day. I felt numb, losing any joy and pride I used to have. Instead of succeeding, each... View Details
John S. (Jack) Knight
Knight inherited Akron's Beacon-Journal in 1933 from his father and built it into a leading newspaper publishing conglomerate. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Knight also had a knack for business. Through several major acquisitions including the Miami Herald,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Bernard F. Gimbel
and Milwaukee, Gimbel ran Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Beverly Hills. During World War II, Gimbel earned huge profits on scarce consumer goods, which he had purchased earlier at low prices. View Details
Keywords: Retail
Harry B. Cunningham
Cunningham took over S. S. Kresge with a vision to convert the retail chain into a discounter. Cunningham opened the first K-Mart discount store in a Detroit suburb in 1962. When Cunningham embarked on his mission, company sales were $483... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Don H. Barden
Barden capitalized on the expansion of cable in the early eighties by targeting predominantly African-American communities. He secured the wiring rights to the city of Detroit and formed a partnership with Maclean Hunter, one of Canada’s... View Details
Keywords: Communications
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
opportunity to sort out interesting projects across the organization. Right now, I’m interested in interacting with the social investments team as well as the Detroit Program [a public/private collaboration] and the American Cities... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credits
Business School Digital Photography Boston Photo Imaging Printing Ram Printing, Inc. Lenders to the Exhibition Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Library The Henry Ford View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
supply chain complexity and an inflationary environment?” For Sundy, it’s an exciting challenge he calls his “MBA 2.0.” Heigh-ho: “My mom was a teacher in the Detroit public schools and my dad was a barber. My parents would be up at the... View Details