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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
Here, of course, I’m thinking of the Big Three automobile manufacturers. They, of course, are only the first of many companies that will line up in Washington saying, “We need a bailout because otherwise we’re going to have to lay off our...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Last Look
the summer of 1946 or 1947, although budding trees may suggest an earlier season and the automobile (at lower right) a later year. HBS research associate Joan McCue also suspects a picnic may be in progress, or that mothers working or...
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- 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 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Research Online
automobile company that in recent months has recalled 8 million vehicles. He offers seven recommendations for restoring consumer confidence in the safety and quality behind the storied brand. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6381.html.
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
smuggling, and tax evasion. Armed bodyguards protect him on his frequent travels around the country. During a visit in 2001 to a major automobile factory, Djelic and other officials explained to employees that thousands of them would have...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
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A CEO Goes Undercover
Mercedes, Jennifer, and Albert truly gave me a gift. Each taught me how to be a better boss. Even more important, they taught me how to be a better person. — Joel Manby (MBA ’85), formerly CEO of Saab Automobile USA, leads Atlanta-based...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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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...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
grassroots campaign to curtail the power of the railroads and usher in a system of free roads. And perhaps most important, the automobile and its makers began to take the stage as a force big enough to rival the rails. In 1900, motor...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The British View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
Africa’s largest oil- producing country, has expensive and unreliable energy. Whether it is lines for automobile and generator fuels or blackouts of the electricity grid, Nigeria is a perfect example of a country that cannot afford to do...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
self, but also the innovation of the automobile industry globalized and the best place to get the sexiest sports car is probably in Italy. And the capital of raw engineering might be in Germany. And the most reliable cars come from Japan....
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- 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases
that, and over the next several years conducted pathbreaking work on the international automobile industry and other complex topics. Written by Robert H. Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, and Professor Marco...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
helped promote highway construction. Some complements to the automobile already existed. One was loans - but here, too, carmakers took an active hand in making them more accessible and attractive. First General Motors and then Ford set up...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home
will become a showcase for other cities in the States—and inspire other companies to revitalize cities. The reason why they chose Detroit, I read, was that the city was devastated because of the declining automobile industry. My case is...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse...
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