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- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
people, about consequences and risks and benefits for other people, and also in a murkier but important sense, the ethics of an organization’s culture and its values.” Elon Musk and Tesla are at the center of a recent HBS case study that... View Details
- Profile
Ben Faw
more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do to disrupt the auto industry... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
Dropbox, where WesTrekkers spent an intimate evening socializing and learning from these companies’ executives. On the final day of programming, a few dozen students had the opportunity to visit some Tesla employees at Tesla’s main... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Ben Faw
more private-sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors, where he worked on global supply-chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do to disrupt the auto industry... View Details
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
battery-storage opportunity this way: When Tesla announced its plans to produce an electric-vehicle battery that could run for a million miles on a single charge, she began to wonder what might happen to that battery once the car itself... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political leadership in creating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
the tech revolution coming, will be left in the cold. The shift is already under way, Cohen explains, pointing to the fact that Tesla arrived at a trillion-dollar valuation in 20 years by optimizing on three dimensions—what Cohen calls... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
decisions better. Now, finance—financial markets, asset prices—are just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions. So, the more you understand those, the deeper you’re going to understand all financial markets, from bitcoin to... View Details
- Web
Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which struggle to eke out market share gains. However, many of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
the surface of your head, so you're never going to get to the deep areas of the brain with EEG," Karmarkar explains. The fMRI uses a giant magnet, often 3 Teslas strong, to track the blood flow throughout the brain as test subjects... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
burnout. Amid the uncertainty, Harvard Business School faculty share some research-backed insights for leaders, people managers, and job seekers. Sandra Sucher: Tech layoffs—It doesn’t have to be this way Tesla earned a Wall Street... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
going public or getting bought. A few clean-tech start-ups, including Tesla and A123 Systems, have gone public, but many others appear stalled. Solyndra announced plans to file for an IPO in December 2009, but reneged on the filing the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
increased 30% year over year. “Partly, that’s a result of feelings of oil insecurity and supply reductions,” Erika said. “But Tesla can’t fill all of the orders it’s receiving because of the high demand.” She applauded the choices and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2008, which kickstarted the first wave of cleantech investing and accelerated companies with over $1 trillion in enterprise value today, including Tesla ($590 billion), Enphase ($40 billion),... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
commitments about how many people of color they're hiring, P-TECH provides the pathway for them to hire. A little school up in Buffalo, New York, had 17 graduates, and 15 of them got offers from Tesla, the partner of the school. Tesla... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Capital, both companies he co-founded. The case outlines the technology—first brought to widespread attention by Tesla and SpaceX executive Elon Musk—then follows Pishevar as he builds a team, develops prototypes, recruits investors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne