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- 02 Dec 2008
- News
In Defense Of American Cars
- 13 Sep 2021
- News
Can a Green-Economy Boom Town Be Built to Last?
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
BlackRock Sticking With Proposed Alaska Copper, Gold Mine
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
manufactured a product that changed the world by dint of its pervasiveness and indispensability. But as some noted, Ford also introduced revolutionary management, workplace, and business innovations that in and of themselves transformed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
drove — without speed limit or license — wherever the dusty, rugged roads would allow. Within ten years, however, the ranks of automobile owners had increased to the hundreds of thousands, and scores of (mostly small) View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Manufacture City, a major production site for Taiwan-based Quanta Computer; Alibaba, the internet business giant, located in Hangzhou; and Wanxiang, the automobile components firm set to debut an electric... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
inefficient automobile sector, and we tried to prop it up through the 1970s with tons of money. In the end, it failed, and what’s left of car manufacturing in Britain is almost entirely foreign-owned. —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
behind the idea. Doriot was one of the most charismatic characters I had ever come across. Although I had never met the man, I fell under his spell. Born on September 24, 1899, in Paris, Doriot was the son of an engineer who helped build one of the first View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
market? The first way to capture pollutants is at the source, whether it’s in an automobile or at a power plant. It’s also the easiest way to do it, because you have a concentrated source of the molecules you’re trying to gather. Next, we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
of the population, 130 million people, have reached middle-class status, spawning a growing consumer-driven economy. Auto sales, for example, grew by 38 percent, to 964,700 units, during the first five months of this year compared with 2003, according to the China... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would design a golf club on the computer and before... View Details