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- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
innovation. Organizations consistently applied new metrics to measure performance but used activity and time logged into systems to proxy for the actual value. Forging a new, better workplace Businesses are only as good as their people, and few people want to return to... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
it could work to put contact lenses in chickens, even though this sounded like a bizarre idea. I decided to take the position of, yes, we can do it, because I was tired of every case opening by saying something was not possible. Of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Kenny: : "This flat tire needs a man," says the narrator of the Goodyear Tire commercial that aired during the inaugural Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
laughter, fingers in my hair, tired feet rubbed, and a quiet understanding she wraps me in her arms i breathe in and smell home – safe, at last. Tyler Simpson, Class of 2020 I met Chaka in one of the most unromantic places on earth, the... View Details
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
medical appointments and academics. How do you make it all work? Constant prioritization, and, yes, having a supportive and engaged spouse who maintained a sense of normalcy through the pregnancy helps! Story to share? A week after getting to HBS, I was really... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
him as he prepared to land in Boston after a long transcontinental flight. Now let's continue the story. At the end of the flight Jeff felt that all his ruminations about his many pressures and responsibilities had left him more tired... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Korea's. They started with garments and shoes, went on to seats and tires for cars, and now they produce microchips and televisions." Hoa and Hoai caution that foreign investors in Vietnam must, above all, do their homework. "One of the... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
knowing you will never raise a meaningful friends and family round for your startup, or explaining overlapping jobs that go back to high school on your resume,or googling how to shave or change a tire or tie a tie. But it’s humbling... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
correctly, and adjust the amount of fertilizer they use accordingly. “It’s so accurate, you can make these decisions on a plant-by-plant basis,” Lal says. In transportation, meanwhile, companies are selling everything from jet engines to View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
grow tired of. Kanter likens the typical change effort to "putting lipstick on a bulldog." Here, the business leader sees something that's ugly, such as a process or a product that needs improvement. The leader wrestles with the... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
efficiently and decrease costs as we increase service levels to customers," says Nathaniel Leonard, supply chain director for the Engineered Products Division of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, Ohio. Taken together, the company's... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
time. This helps me prioritize the most important events, and not feel guilty about the many HBS activities I need to decline. Best Mama Hack: Get a running stroller! Even if you don't run, they're more nimble than a normal stroller (maneuver around a grocery store... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's... View Details
Harvey S. Firestone
By securing a large tire order from Henry Ford in 1906, and aggressively promoting his tires in automobile races, Firestone was able to grow his company’s sales from $100,000 in 1901 to $15 million in 1913,... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
Carbon. Tires, in particular, are a gold mine. But with every tire change, that potential carbon black—4.5 million tons annually, worth 4.5 billion euros—typically heads to landfills (or worse, up in smoke). “It’s like throwing out the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
John L. Collyer
In 1940, Collyer brought to market the first tire with a substantial man-made rubber content. Goodrich’s tire was 50% synthetic rubber at a time when man-made rubber was not yet cost competitive with crude... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro’s TED Talk, available here: Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business | TED. Ifedolapo Runsewe is the Managing Director of Freee Recycle Limited, an industrial plant that transforms used car View Details
- Portrait Project
Martin Vasev
grew tired of protesting. I don’t blame her. She was the only one in my family to stay and fight. My mom’s desire to fight waned, but mine grew stronger. At twelve, I began following the news. At nineteen, I majored in Politics. At... View Details
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and produced millions of View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace