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- 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 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
CarLotz Guys: Ready to sell your car for you in a new, hassle-free way. Photo courtesy CarLotz Last April, inspired by the recent spike in demand for used cars—as well as a growing number of used-car owners looking to profit from that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Hudson Motor Cars plant. At top left, a photo (circa 1934) by Fred C. Seely, titled “Combination slicing and wrapping machine,” taken at the Continental Baking Company, features an American icon, Wonder Bread. To view the Baker exhibit,... 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
- 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
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
battery-storage opportunity this way: When Tesla announced its plans to produce an electric-vehicle battery that could run for a million miles on a single charge, she began to wonder what might happen to that battery once the car itself... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
autonomous-driving technology obviously could have incredible societal benefits. Building a safe, self-driving car is the greatest engineering challenge of our lifetime. I think we’re going to get there sooner than we think, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner of car chases and plot twists. Because it was kind of an underground thing, young people started to discover the films. You could download and pass... 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 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
new car may be seductive, he notes, "but let's not forget that a car's real function is to cross distances and bring people to each other. And let's start to consider that the real function of IT might be strikingly similar." View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
supporting the sharing economy—to answer your questions. With the increased reaction among incumbent businesses, how can sharing economy services (especially car and home) best get around the barriers represented by regulations? —Derek... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
remember that equally hot industries have cooled with time. Once there were some two thousand companies manufacturing trucks and cars in America, Buffett said, but today "only three have finished the race." Between 1979 and 1998, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
brand equity after a dramatic breakthrough in the 1760s Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry From luxury cars to aeroengines German Capitalism How a new country industrialized rapidly using an unorthodox strategy Thyssen... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes car searches for customers using smartphones by decoding information from... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Magazine about a company that was trying to sell its software. On a hunch, Hoel Perkins cold-called the company, saying she had money to invest, and landed the founder’s car phone number. When she caught him on the phone, John McAfee was... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
achievements.” Then there was a piece on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Business section. The article opens with the story of how Tammy Strobel and her husband simplified their lives by selling their cars and moving to a... 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