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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
completion of his HBS degree marks a final step toward a long-held dream: to return to India and join the TVS Group, an umbrella for 32 holding companies that represents the country’s largest supplier of automotive parts. The $1.5 billion...
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- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
facing growing dissatisfaction with traditional cable packages and the rise of online streaming, was ripe for disruption, but would Apple be able to build a competitive offering? The automotive industry, with the rise of electric cars and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-009 Designing Executive Compensation at Kongsberg Automotive (A) No abstract available. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
an advantage over European competitors. It also needs a more proactive approach to identifying and upgrading its areas of strength outside of London. The UK has strong biosciences and information technology clusters around Cambridge and Oxford, a study cluster of View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-compete status in Michigan, they discovered a natural test bed, thanks to an inadvertent policy change. In 1905, during the initial automotive industry boom, Michigan passed Public Act No. 329, which prohibited "all agreements and...
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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
appropriate staffing, and store layout. Everyone in retailing knows this, but basics are boring, and it's easy to lose sight of them. The U.S. automotive industry offers a cautionary tale of the perils of not tending to the basics. The...
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- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) Willy Shih and Margaret PiersonHarvard Business School Case 612-071 The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
that was higher than consumers’ expectations. Immediately after receiving the quote, some callers queried whether the repair business would be willing to match the expected price published by the online automotive repair website...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
seals for automotive parts suppliers such as AutoZone and Parts Plus. Developed in 1997, the line continues to expand and contribute to the company’s overall sales, which totaled $2.6 billion in 2002. Delivering on the Details When Lauri...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/516005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-107 The TARP Bailouts: Saving the Banking and Automotive Industries Comparison of the U.S. Government response, using the $700 billion TARP fund, to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
to deploy a system of statistical control that had been developed and applied successfully in the management of the Army Air Forces. Henry Ford II had recently assumed control of his grandfather's troubled automotive empire and was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-056 Cox Automotive Media Group No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516056-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
were more like them, too, whose careers were similar to the careers the students were pursuing," Sucher says. So the video series includes people like Hemant Luthra, now a top executive at Mahindra CIE Automotive in Mumbai, who is a...
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- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag sensor switches for the View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
School Case 215-012 EcoMotors International Eco-Motors, funded in part by Khosla Ventures, has to decide how to go to market with a new technology for internal combustion engines for automotive and industrial use. The OPOC engine has...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually add up across and down, and that...
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- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector because of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
automotive industry executive, but a first-time entrepreneur, Canny was CEO of Think Global AS (THINK), a privately held Norwegian maker of battery-operated EVs that are rechargeable through residential electrical power outlets. With this...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
application, based upon data from multiple APM systems. The research was conducted in collaboration with a European automotive company, using two months of live application data. We show that our model detects abnormal system behavior...
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Dina Gerdeman