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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Gaining Career Traction
the holiday break, but also the excitement of FIELD II Immersion! I personally am traveling to Accra, Ghana, and couldn’t be more excited. I’ve never been to Africa before, so I’m excited to not only experience a new country, but an entirely new continent as well. Of... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
Charles M. Pigott
Pigott was instrumental in leading the growth of his family’s business, Pacific Car & Foundry. Sales of heavy trucks under the Peterbilt and Kenworth names increased from $320 million to $4.3 billion. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
knew he wanted to "manage a team and help people develop," and that HBS, as the "premier leadership institution in the world," would be the "best way to learn the general aspects of business." As graduation approached, "It became... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
are physically challenged face—Brehm and his wife, Faith, were seriously injured in a 1993 car accident. He suffered a high-level spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia. "We were determined not to let this injury limit us. We've... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference table at the View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
that makes money. Over the last decade Ford has earned more on car loans than on car sales. You can say that car loans help stimulate car sales,... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
knew he wanted to "manage a team and help people develop," and that HBS, as the "premier leadership institution in the world," would be the "best way to learn the general aspects of business." As graduation approached, "It became... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alok Sanghvi
"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. Today, I'm more concerned with the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
given authority to decide whether spare parts should be sent to combat troops or to the evolving production base. By centralizing inventory control in this manner, the optimum use was made of scarce... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
information, connected car services, and analytics, founded by Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995). The figures aren’t much better in the United States, where Los Angeles tops the list at 81 hours. And in the rankings of nations, the US, with an... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
travels 100 miles on a single battery charge. Ghosn notes that 80 percent of the world’s daily driving is less than 50 miles. While electric car owners can charge up at home in a multihour process (usually overnight), Ghosn envisions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
would take a German commodity chemical business to a major position in detergents and perfumes, that Eileen Friars would trade in her jeans and long tresses and take charge of a $20-billion credit-card operation, or that Jeff Seder would, in his View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
part of that growth. "It's at that 'not-too-expensive, but it's not cheap' really effective price point," she said. Langer recalled an old industry saw to the effect that "in a recession, a really good business to be in is... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
Local Motors—which is led by Jay Rogers (MBA 2007)—posted to its co-creation community: build an urban public transportation system. It’s all part of the company’s unique design model: "Most of our vehicles are designed by people who... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year begin selling battery-powered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
through Jakarta are jammed so tightly that walking from car rooftop to rooftop seems feasible during rush hour—roughly three hours from six o’clock in the morning and then again for about four hours in the evening. Japanese-made minivans... View Details