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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
month for Internet access. We bundled a computer and online access and support for less than $25 a month and launched that business. And soon into it [we] got a call from the Ford Motor Company. The CIO said, ‘We're spending over $125... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
risk-reducing "portfolios" of causes instead of focusing on one. In contrast, she noted, "at one time, the Rockefeller Foundation helped revolutionize university education, the Ford Foundation helped create the Public Broadcasting System,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Ford and Alfred Sloan Corporate strategy and marketing techniques used by pioneers in the American automobile industry Japanese Capitalism How a late developer caught up fast with the West and in some industries surpassed it Toyoda... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra (AMP 113, 1993) and Suj Krishnaswamy (Harvard Business Press) When Tata Motors bought the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford — complementing the Nano, its innovative $2,500 car — a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
include Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, HBS professors Michael Porter and Clay Christensen, and Tom Coughlin, EVP, president, and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. Be sure to visit the Cleveland conference Web site... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
there isn’t a better fit out there, or you realize there is something else you should pursue.” Before the Carnegie Corporation, you were at the Ford Foundation for 13 years, as a portfolio strategist and senior manager of private equity.... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
three, I’m tired of going around the minivan.” A loss in market share to Ford and GM eventually pushed Chrysler to the left-side sliding door—and market share increased immediately. “This is what happens when you listen to your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
has also made the most of joint ventures, initially a 1993 deal that enabled Ford to manufacture and market the Escort in India. “We were then making open-top Jeeps and didn’t have a clue how to make a mass-market car,” he says. “Thanks... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Association of Thailand Hosts Collis for Strategy Talk David J. Collis (MBA 1958), the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration within the Strategy Unit at HBS, treated about 70 HBS alumni and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Dear members of the HBS community, As a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
and being or a sense of purpose and identity. Ever since the seminal Carnegie and Ford reports in 1959, MBA curricula have emphasized knowledge and analytics, grounded in economics, statistics, applied mathematics, and social psychology.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, Kirin Brewery Co., and Procter & Gamble - that have successfully implemented such systems. Cost & Effect describes systems that help frontline employees to improve their daily operations and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
When I worked for Ford Motor Company years ago, we partnered with UPS quite successfully for supply chain and logistics improvements. They should focus on their core business and let the experts help with logistics and supply chain.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
longest-running and most successful media strategy in U.S. advertising history," according to Advertising Age. McCraw reminds readers that despite the present-day size of behemoths such as McDonald's and Ford Motor Company, each began as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
mission statements to the contrary, many deans and recruiters complain that MBAs don’t understand the practice of leadership or have sufficient awareness of their impact on others. Reflecting on these findings, Garvin concluded, “Business as usual isn’t good enough.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
AMABILE: A decade of research shows that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. After thirty years of research, I am still passionate about creativity,” says Teresa M. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering and then took a job at View Details