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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

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By: Richard S. Tedlow

Don't Deny the Facts

Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010

The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details

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Find Past & Upcoming Events - Alumni

2005), you'll learn the benefits, principles, and process of establishing your unique personal brand. Apr 16 12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 16 Apr 2025 Career Check-Up You give your automobile regular maintenance check-ups, why not do the same with... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits For the first few decades of automobile history, cars were luxury items. The people who bought them did so for... View Details

• 01 Oct 2007
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Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

notion that a large segment of consumers might prefer automobiles that were safe and fuel-efficient. Coca-Cola ignored evidence that "New Coke" would fizzle and launched it anyway. Companies in the mechanical-watch and... View Details

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• 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Edgerley spent five years at Bain & Company where he worked as a consultant and manager in the healthcare, information services, retail and automobile industries. Previously, Edgerley, a certified public accountant, worked at Peat... View Details

• 25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

University of Aeronautics and Astronautics PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE SDIC Fund Management Co., ZhenFund, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC, Cummins Inc., Robert Bosch LLC HBS ACTIVITIES Co-president, Transportation, Infrastructure, and Logistics... View Details

Malcolm S. Salter

Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

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Events - Business History

across Post-World War Two Industrializing Asia" Oct 31 31 Oct 2022 Business History Seminar Thomas Fetzer (Central European University), "Nationality and multinational corporations: Insights from a historical perspective on German and British labour organizations in... View Details

• 15 Jun 2009
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GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

dramatically weakened portfolio of both current and future products. Although much attention has been focused on electric cars, hybrids, and fuel cells, I believe that the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details

• 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

example, he cites the U.S. tire industry, which saw every one of its major firms either restructured or taken over during that decade. Long an expert on the automobile industry, Malcolm S. Salter, the James J. Hill Professor of Business... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

"the role of industry is to sense a deep human need, then bring science and technology to bear on filling that need." 9 As automobile ownership increased exponentially through the 1920s, Land aligned his research of polarizers with what... View Details