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Digital Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
access to wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project to make all of the Library’s colonial-era content available online.Photographs (HOLLIS Images) - Visual collections include more than 32,000 photographs, daguerreotypes, and...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 101910s19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 201920s19 KDKA, first radio station...
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
dramatically weakened portfolio of both current and future products. Although much attention has been focused on electric cars, hybrids, and fuel cells, I believe that the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the...
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- 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....
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Garry Emmons
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Photographs & Prints | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
photographs, daguerreotypes and stereographs of factories, manufacturing techniques, business leaders, and people at work in industrial settings ranging from automobile plants to paper mills. Researchers...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Medium-High 1900s19 Model T Plastic Safety razor Widespread use of steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 101910s19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
means, including Machiavellian ones, if necessary, to bring together people with conflicting goals and spur them into action. When the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry tried to restrict Honda from entering the automobile...
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by Kristen Senz
- 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...
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Charles W. Nash
Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of...
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Automotive & Aerospace
Walter P. Chrysler
In 1924, Chrysler created a car, which bore his name, and offered new innovations to the automobile, including the four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a high compression engine. In 1928, Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers Company for its View Details
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Automotive & Aerospace
William Durant
Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the View Details
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Automotive & Aerospace
Ray W. Herrick
Herrick left Ford Motor Company in 1930 to start a small automobile parts manufacturing operation. Four years later, fearing a dependency on the volatile auto industry, he turned his attention to the new...
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Fabricated Goods
- 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...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Porsche erected a small but substantial plant in Leipzig in eastern Germany. And unlike BMW or Daimler-Benz, Porsche did not move closer to the main U.S. market. The controversial Cayenne has turned out to be Porsche's best-selling View Details
George S. Lannom, Jr.
Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned to the View Details
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Fabricated Goods
Frank A. Seiberling
Despite being forced out of his firm during its post World War I financial troubles, Seiberling’s diligence and faith in the growth of the rubber business allowed his company to become the largest manufacturer of both carriage and View Details
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 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...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
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...
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