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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship
Corporation MBA 1970 Raymond T. Dalio Bridgewater Associates MBA 1973 William Davis Able Lending MBA 2011 Clifton Dawson Fitzeal MBA 2013 Edson D. de Castro Data General Corporation MBA 1963 Roger Huffstetler Zillabyte MBA 2009 Richard A.... View Details
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HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
the wheel of a Rolls-Royce he’d shipped across the Atlantic for the occasion. Wallner was stunned. “I thought, ‘Why on earth would you bring a bloody motor car here?’ ” In the friendship that followed, Wallner learned that Gaines-Cooper... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About
marketing automation, personalization, predictive analysis, generative AI, social media, and more. New uses are emerging every day. MBA Student Handbook The Student Handbook provides students with the policies and information necessary to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Faculty & Research - Business History
political science. 23 Jul 2024 News The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities Re: Jeremy Friedman, Meg Rithmire, Jaya Wen, William Kirby & Ebehi Iyoha July 2024 (Revised October 2024) Case Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2017
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Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
contrast to Mulally, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and his predecessors refused to transform GM’s product line, even as the company’s North American market share slid from 50 percent in the 1970s to 18... View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
kindness does not. The value and rewards of kindness have been touted by leaders as legendary as King Solomon and Desmond Tutu to latter-day executives like General Motors CEO Mary Barra, known for her... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
outstanding in the United States—about $850 billion—is about equal to the nation’s credit card debt. 23 In the 1920s, auto financing took a giant leap forward when the car manufacturers entered the game. In 1924, GM launched the General... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
and everywhere in between, "fundamental but highly controversial issues often are not surfaced," former Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense, Ford Motor Company president, and World Bank president Robert S. McNamara (HBS MBA '39)... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Regional Winners - Alumni
generates innovative designs for electric motors. Our software provides motor manufacturers with large sources of gains and cost reduction, reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
was purchased for approximately $1.1B by Ariba, where Mr. Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development. He has also worked as a high-tech strategy consultant (semiconductor, telecom, online financial services), and in View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
former NCR executives became presidents of other concerns, many in the field of automobiles, office machinery, and other mass-production industries. NCR alumni included Charles F. Kettering of General Motors, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers'... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
unit. "But traditionally in the US we have not placed a lot of emphasis on the role of workplace stress in the high cost of health care." In recent years, General Motors spent more on health care... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
a PM was created by interactions with others,” he says. When he decided to get an MBA to “learn how to commercialize a clean tech product,” he chose HBS for its general management strengths – and its emphasis on communicating with others.... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
before 1990. Heating oil furnaces are increasingly being seen as cost prohibitive as the ongoing cost of heating oil has doubled over last two years due to supply constraints from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the pandemic. Heating oil also undergoes the same price... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been... View Details