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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
do not waste. I hope it truly brings predictability to innovation that historically we just have not had before. Why do managers ignore the motivations of their customers? Is part of it because they are now awash with data and fetishize... View Details
Donald E. Petersen
Though he was part of the teams that launched the Ford Thunderbird and Mustang, Petersen's real fame is rooted in his revival of the Ford dynasty in the 1980s. Under Petersen's leadership, Ford grew out of the shadow of GM, redesigning... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 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
- 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
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
used that information to predict how often and when a customer may request a car as part of their routine. The model could drill into specific kinds of routines, too: The model identifies seven clusters of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads).... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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