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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807018 Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading Harvard Business School Case 707-494 In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
tracking the company’s fleet of custom-built delivery trucks as they move across 20 metropolitan areas in 14 states. Car owners can request gasoline and a host of other services, such as tire checks, car washes, and oil changes, via the... View Details
Francis B. Davis Jr.
United States Rubber gained a profit of $2 million. Davis introduced Kaylon, a foam rubber cushion material, in 1934, and in 1938, Davis developed a rayon cord to be used in tire production. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- Portrait Project
Dan Koloski
My biggest problem has always been that I want to do everything. Nobody ever forced me to, but I have never been good at saying "no." When I was in high school my friends used to call me "burnout" because I used to walk around so View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Nkansah
that I may yet owe death a life. I was never a pan-African before that day—my mind teemed with tired tales from my father of Nkrumah's utopian vision. But capitalism could well succeed where decades of post-independence politics failed—in... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Courtney Behm
and now I’m a guerilla change agent, working my magic from behind the lines. I prize my ability to find unseen solutions in times of conflict, and to bring out the best in my colleagues. I never get tired of seeing the real person come to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing... 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
- Portrait Project
Harman Kochar
learn from each flat tire along the way Keep company of good people during this journey...the journey is extremely pleasant when the company is good Discover new places and venture on higher grounds Persist in unpleasant weather and find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Thinking Inside the Box
Back in 1988, Paul (MBA '84) and Peter Centenari (27th OPM), brothers who coowned a small Colorado investment bank, had grown tired of moving from deal to deal. They wanted to get back to the basics: running a low-tech manufacturing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Peggy Yu
I will close my eyes. Take a deep breath. And leap. Conscious. Deliberate. Aware. And yes... maybe scared. You see, I am tired of being safe; I am weary of doing what I should; I am exhausted from trying to be what I'm not. So, here I... View Details
Frank A. Seiberling
a profit, but after Seiberling hired an astute MIT engineer and poured money into product development, Goodyear was producing about 40,000 tires per day and had revenues of $205 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
the “illegitimi” have not yet “carborundum’d,” who are tired of shoveling “hokum” and have momentarily forgotten that “there’s no BS like HBS!” The woman remains unidentified. View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
marketing in the early stages of a drug's development. In a lunchtime address, Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, touched on a number of experiences from his 33 years at the auto giant, including what he referred to as "the 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
stuffing 59 party bags with HBS mementos for Admit Day festivities,” she laughs. “I really owe him!” Schock will soon get a chance to repay the favor. After graduation, she plans to work in London in the Engineered Products Division of Goodyear View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- Portrait Project
Evan Baehr
and blessing, ought to touch the soul—yet go untold. I wonder about the people I pass on the street or in the subway. Where are they coming from? Where are they going? At one end of the train, a woman sits quietly reading to a child—what are her View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used. OCO’s current electrolyzer design is about the size of a mini-fridge, but the team is working to create a larger version... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and Mike Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS, experts in scheduling and in inspections, respectively. “The more inspections you have done earlier in the day,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
was not immune to the effects of recent worldwide economic sluggishness. “We had some sobering moments in 2001 and 2002,” admits Fuller. But grappling with slower growth “made everyone a lot smarter.” After twenty years at the helm, Fuller says he’s never grown View Details