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Carl H. Lindner, Jr.
Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company in the late 1950’s, Lindner went... View Details
Keywords: Finance
James H. Rand, Jr.
Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership, company sales grew 100 fold from... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Frank A. Vanderlip
United States bank, National City’s branch in Buenos Aires, and to the creation of the banking conglomerate American International Corporation, which had operations in 17 countries by 1918. Because of Vanderlip’s leadership, National City... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Harold L. Stuart
Following its spin off from N. W. Halsey, Stuart continued his Chicago-based firm’s strong presence in bond issuance, helping raise funds for many industrial conglomerates that, until that time, had always gone to New York for financing.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a better India through business and philanthropy
the Piramal Group into one of India’s largest conglomerates and the country’s third-largest pharmaceutical company. “We have transformed ourselves from an India-centric business to a global business,” says Piramal. “Today, the majority of... View Details
Charles H. Revson
Known for his autocratic and direct management style, Revson built Revlon into the second largest cosmetics company in the U.S. Revson's unique talent of grasping the female psyche, bolstered by his fiercely competitive nature, allowed Revlon to grow from a nail polish... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Marjorie M. Post
Under Marjorie’s leadership, Postum Cereal was expanded through acquisitions, which enabled her to take the company public. The company was eventually reorganized to form the General Foods Corporation, which remains one of the largest food View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 12 Feb 2022
- News
Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83
the time I was about 12," Bajaj told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2005, when he was named a recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. A remembrance in Forbes notes that, under his watch, “the [Bajaj] group grew into a View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
famous for its intellectual freedom,” Wang Jianlin, chairman of the global conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, told 800-plus students who gathered in Burden Hall in October. “Ask me anything at all.” Students quizzed China’s richest man on... View Details
- June 2013 (Revised August 2014)
- Supplement
Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (B)
By: Eric Werker, Yasmin Mandviwala, Henry Motte-Munoz and Arthur Wit
Werker, Eric, Yasmin Mandviwala, Henry Motte-Munoz, and Arthur Wit. "Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 713-094, June 2013. (Revised August 2014.)
Robert T. B. Stevens
plant closings and relocations, expansion into new fabric areas, and numerous other cost-saving measures that helped the large textile conglomerate remain successful throughout Stevens’ tenure. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Victor Emanuel
including the Crosley Corporation for $20 million in 1945 and Bendix Home Appliances in 1950. These purchases helped to transform AVCO into one of the early conglomerates by the early 1950s. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
By: Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
Feldman, Emilie, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." December 2009.
- March 2008 (Revised November 2012)
- Teaching Note
GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project (TN)
Teaching Note for [907048]. View Details
- January 1971 (Revised October 1975)
- Case
Ling Temco Vought, Inc.
Keywords: Business Conglomerates
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Ling Temco Vought, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 272-102, January 1971. (Revised October 1975.)
- April 2007 (Revised August 2009)
- Supplement
Cargill (B)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jose M. M. Porraz
Keywords: Business Conglomerates
Goldberg, Ray A., and Jose M. M. Porraz. "Cargill (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 907-415, April 2007. (Revised August 2009.)
Orlando F. Weber
Weber and an associate pooled their resources to merge several small chemical companies into one conglomerate that came be known as Allied Chemical. Weber maintained stability at the chemical company throughout the early years of the... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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Sarah Guezmir
Sarah has devoted her career to payer/provider healthcare, with experience working for companies ranging from late-stage startups to large conglomerates in the space. She also spent multiple years consulting for healthcare businesses in... View Details
Nicholas M. Schenck
When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to efficiency and to “the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William S. Paley
After entering the media and entertainment field on somewhat of a whim, Paley grew his small radio concern into a media conglomerate with success in radio, television, music, media equipment and more. CBS competed heavily with the larger,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media