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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate champions. Generating electricity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
Computers and e-commerce, cars and corporate titans — these themes are at the core of Harvard Business School Publishing’s latest compilation of best-selling cases. Written wholly or in part by current or former members of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
customer delivered pizzas. “If you can save me 20 minutes,” he told Frist, “you are saving me money.” Yoshi estimates that it can return 30 hours a year to the average car owner. Today, president and COO Frist, who splits his time between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power from View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
driverless? Is it an advertising space? A connected entertainment center? A personal transportation sanctuary? —Jeff Zeller (MBA 2016) KAPOOR: The internal space will be very different. Up until now, cars have been designed for a scenario... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
Customers in this field are, rightly, skeptical of performance claims. The price comes after the proof. Otherwise, it’s like asking what’s a fair price for a car before knowing what the car is. —Mark Chussil... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
he said, to create a green energy industry that has the potential to be much larger than telecom. Key elements are legislation that is raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars from 25 mpg to 35 mpg; providing $80 billion in stimulus... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role. “I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
initiatives. McNamara’s dedication to this approach would later prove a double-edged sword, carving out considerable successes as well as disturbing failures, in the view of many observers. Better numbers, employed imaginatively, might boost View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
before a tragic car accident changed the course of his life forever. On a return trip from the cherry season in Oregon, my dad and I were in a deadly collision that took his life and the lives of four other farmworkers,” says Curiel, who... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the world’s “greenest” View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
over at the museum at a key time, with the Met in the midst of a campaign to raise $400 million. The article also detailed Houghton's lengthy stint of physical therapy and rehabilitation after a near-fatal accident in 1993 when he was struck by a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
process for getting out. An expert on finance and a director of the Harvard Management Company, Light opened his remarks with this analogy: “The past year and a half or so has been a slow-motion train wreck. About every three months or so, another View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I... View Details