Electric Car Racing - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

is strongest after the rank ordering of the actors in a tournament becomes relatively stable, which focuses contestants' attention on proximately ranked competitors. The empirical context we examine is the National Association for Stock View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507006 Edelnor (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-473 Fernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Business School Case 718-005 Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

wind energy, electric vehicles, drainage systems, and natural ventilation are easy for those entities to justify on their economic return on investment, and that’s why they embrace those ideas. Additionality matters. The alumni group... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

advertising as well as other opportunities for multi-tasking while we await responses to our last click. Original Article We are witnessing a race to reduce the time required to fill the tank of a car with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

vehicles increase vehicle utilization and provide greater mobility with a fraction of the number of cars currently on the road? How will oil companies react to falling oil demand caused by the increased adoption of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

A final explanation is intriguing. It states that new inventions, even manifestly useful ones such as computers, require some "percolation" time before they are productively employed. Studies of the history of steam and electric... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

customer will buy his or her next car from them, and at that, a second purchase could well be years away. While many firms are clearly bent on getting big fast, some competitors are adopting a get-it-right-first strategy instead. One such... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

grew it into the largest auto parts company in the world. Recently the company even helped bail out Detroit by investing in US auto parts companies that were going belly-up, and is becoming a leader in electric View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

consumed in cars and trucks. Eighty percent of the fuel is from oil. Based on personal observation, I feel safe in saying that much of this fuel is burned idling in traffic jams. Investments in more efficient mass transit, more efficient... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

the food and drinks industry are increasing wages, and in a concession to work-life balance, Walmart and Target even opted to close on Thanksgiving. However, in the race to retain talent, companies are also resorting to less substantive... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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