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- 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
- 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
No Sweat
When he’s not researching empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and portfolio choice, Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen’s fondness for heavy lifting moves into the physical realm. Here he works out with an 800-pound tire while... View Details
Keywords: weightlifting
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
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Jordan Bazinsky
One day, I will build a crib from scratch. It will feature stained wood for style and monster truck-sized tires for performance, just in case we need to move it around. The project will be exciting and my joy will come from the little... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
succeeded in the past," he writes in Revival of the Fittest. When Firestone was faltering in the tire industry after the introduction of radial technology, for instance, Firestone management responded by doing more of the same... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used, by converting it back into hydrogen or electricity. With two recent grants worth $2.8 million from the US Department of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
example, 2021 transaction-level trade data from Vietnam shows that most bicycle tires imported from China went to a manufacturer in Ho Chi Minh City, whereas most bicycle tire exports to the US were made by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
the original recipe, and shunned artificial colors and flavors to appeal to an increasingly health-conscious public. A new ad campaign touting all this won a Clio Award. The result? Those $6 million of losses became $25 million in profits in five years. Asked what's... View Details