Automobiles - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Aug 2018
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Tesla needs experienced automobile experts say former Medtronic Chairman

04 Oct 2009
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It's Brand New, but Make It Sound Familiar

11 Oct 2016
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Baker Library Exhibit Focuses On Polaroid & Edwin Land

02 Dec 2008
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The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: Nancy Koehn Looks into the Abyss

23 Dec 2010
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How Social Networking Has Changed Business

01 Oct 2020
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Are You Really Innovating Around Your Customers’ Needs?

30 Mar 2018
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BlackRock Sticking With Proposed Alaska Copper, Gold Mine

13 Sep 2021
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Can a Green-Economy Boom Town Be Built to Last?

01 Sep 2023
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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

Keywords: April White

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), General Robert... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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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 believes, is an example of how GM... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in View Details

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in particular, how the "focused... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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All Aboard

no-nonsense manager.” “When I get called, it's generally because there's an operational or financial problem, and people have decided it's time to cease talking about it and do something,” he told the Associated Press (June 19, 2002). Airlines and View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

nor is it the question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king." IT decisions, however, should not be based on functionality, says McAfee, who takes an example from the View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Former Bulletin Editor Remembered

Edward Lovell ("Ted") Anthony II (MBA '52), who served as editor of this magazine from 1962 to 1981, was killed in an automobile accident on November 18 in Maui, Hawaii. He was 80 years old. A 1943 graduate of Harvard College, Anthony... View Details

Keywords: Edward Lovell ("Ted") Anthony II (MBA 1952); obituary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

Ford and Alfred Sloan Corporate strategy and marketing techniques used by pioneers in the American automobile industry Japanese Capitalism How a late developer caught up fast with the West and in some industries surpassed it Toyoda... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Nov 2016
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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 car in the United States.... View Details

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