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- 23 Sep 2011
- News
Guiding Harley-Davidson
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
London-based Stellican Ltd., a private-equity firm that specializes in the revival of heritage brands, mainly in the recreational-products area. Stellican has restored elegance and prestige to Chris-Craft boats (purchased in 2000) and intends to do the same with the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
vehicles and personal watercraft. Next spring, Polaris will add "Victory" motorcycles to its product line. Polaris has also earned a reputation as a solid corporate citizen; last spring, for example, it provided utility vehicles to... View Details
- 04 May 2013
- News
James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985
moveable feast. It’s become one of the cornerstones of our life.” In fact, their joint life began at HBS when, as sectionmates, they met on the first day of their RC year and had their first date at the annual HBS Halloween party. “He was Dracula,” Miller explains,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
A Century of Birthday Candles
every European country but Spain, all 50 states, Asia, North Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Rim. She has walked the Great Wall of China five times and, at age 99, rode on the back of a motorcycle during View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Mount Rushmore, so we packed up and drove to South Dakota. Of course, my parents didn’t know that was the week of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.” Break on through: “We launched the Street 750 motorcycle in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
ROGERS WITH CONCEPT CAR: “Technology has changed over the past 100 years. We no longer need to build cars the way Henry Ford once did.” Matthew West/Boston Herald Jay Rogers (MBA ’07), whose grandfather once owned the legendary Indian View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
needed.” In cities where private car ownership isn’t yet prevalent, Dediu hopes preference tilts to micromobility, as it has in India. Drivers there have long favored gas-powered motorcycles and scooters, but one analysis projects new... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Minister, Rajiv Gandhi-of Japanese manufacturers such as Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki changed the dynamics of the marketplace completely. Waiting lists eventually gave way to overcapacity, and a new generation of motorcycles drove the sale... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
content such as its Red Bulletin lifestyle magazine and feature-length films focusing on skiing, snowboarding, and motorcycle racing—just the sort of exploits favored by Red Bull’s young, mainly male audience. Yes, the energy drink’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
back on the mainland. And when I would travel around there, I would take buses. Also sometimes, my car needed to be repaired, and I had these moments where I was without a car, and there again, I would take buses. I would hitchhike. And I would take View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Harley-Davidson, a little gentle coercion on the part of the company’s chairman convinced Snoey to get his motorcycle license; today, he’s still riding. “In the last six years, I’ve put 50,000 miles on my Harleys,” says Snoey, who often... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Mingshan. Imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Yin discovered his true vocation in the early 1990s, after the liberalization of the Chinese economy. In just fifteen years he has built up a $900 million business. Last year his Lifan company sold more than 1.5... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
1985A. In January 1984 in Ben Shapiro’s Marketing class, we had a weeklong module on the motorcycle industry, and the day we had a case dealing specifically with Harley Davidson was the day I drove my Harley Sportster into the classroom... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
worked on together into a tribute to his friend who died in a motorcycle accident. And what he found was once he created a memorial, a sacred space, other people brought their own memorials, and were relieved to have some place away that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
cabdrivers, university presidents, corporate titans, custodians, athletes, motorcycle cops, tree surgeons. He thanked people profusely for their efforts on behalf of the School — his distinctive heavy scrawl jumping across a half-sheet of... View Details