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    Stephen D. Bechtel

    Bechtel was a giant in the large construction industry. His firm is credited with the successful completion of massive projects including the Hoover Dam and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Bechtel also built the oil pipeline across the... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

      Daniel P. Tully

      Believing that two of Merrill’s biggest problems were complacency and arrogance, Tully’s first task as CEO of the large investment bank was to achieve a value system that promoted integrity and hard work. Personally congratulating anyone who made the View Details
      Keywords: Finance

        Samuel Sachs

        Sachs, together with his friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers, was one of the first to realize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise funds. Together the two banks underwrote securities offerings for such large View Details
        Keywords: Finance

          Margaret F. Rudkin

          Rudkin began her business at her family estate, Pepperidge Farm, after the success of her all natural home baked bread (originally made to relieve her sons’ allergies). She gradually expanded her business to include Belgian cookies, frozen pastries, poultry stuffing... View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco

            Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.

            Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, succeeding his father as president in... View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods

              Henry F. Henderson, Jr.

              moved from Henderson’s home to a large industrial plant. Under Henderson’s leadership, HI has grown from a small basement enterprise with $20,000 in sales to a large industrial technology firm with revenues of $50 million. View Details
              Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                Charles S. Davis

                In 1928, fifteen auto parts manufacturers merged to form Borg-Warner Corporation with Davis as president. Davis expanded Borg-Warner’s reach until the firm included 27 subsidiaries and operated 30 manufacturing plants in eight states,... View Details
                Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
                • 22 Sep 2003
                • Research & Ideas

                When Protestors Knock at Your Door

                in the Spring 2003 issue of California Management Review. In the piece, the authors offer case studies of Unocal, Nike, and Novartis. Spar and LaMure were struck by "how smart NGOs can be in their own strategic thinking, and how View Details
                Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
                • 18 Mar 2008
                • First Look

                First Look: March 18, 2008

                professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric... View Details
                Keywords: Martha Lagace
                • April 2008 (Revised May 2009)
                • Case

                Robert Wessman and Actavis' "Winning Formula"

                Robert Wessman took over Actavis in 1999 when it was a failing 90-person domestic generic pharmaceutical maker in Iceland. Within 7 years he had brought Actavis to number 5 worldwide, with 11,000 people, active in 40 countries, global manufacturing, and $1.6 billion.... View Details
                Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Transformation; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Iceland
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                • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
                • Case

                Citigroup 2003: Testing the Limits of Convergence (A)

                By: Lynda M. Applegate
                Examines Citigroup's strategic transition and highlights issues that its newly announced CEO Charles Prince will face as he assumes leadership of this global financial corporation upon the retirement of its charismatic CEO, Sandy Weill. View Details
                Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Succession; Transformation; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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                • November 1993 (Revised November 1994)
                • Supplement

                OfficePro (B)

                By: John A. Quelch
                Supplements OfficePro (A). View Details
                Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France
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                • 19 Nov 2021
                • News

                Aiming for Sustainability Isn’t Good Enough—The Goal Is Much Higher

                • 04 Nov 2016
                • News

                No Grand Plan, but a Clear Mission

                (photo by Louise Kennerley) (photo by Louise Kennerley) Marne Levine’s (MBA 2005) resume includes stints at the US Department of Treasury, Harvard University, and Facebook, where she served as VP of global public policy. “I’ve been in each place for some period of... View Details
                • 21 Jan 2015
                • News

                Tootsie Roll Chief, Committed to Keeping Company Independent, Dies at 95

                Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

                  Joseph A. Martino

                  Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the top 50 U. S. View Details
                  Keywords: Metals

                    William R. Hewlett

                    Hewlett, the technological innovator, and Packard, the managerial and financial expert, started their company with $530 which became one of the first electronics firms to set up shop in what later became known as Silicon Valley. They... View Details
                    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
                    • 21 Nov 2005
                    • Research & Ideas

                    The Geography of Corporate Giving

                    focused on housing, those in Columbus are oriented toward children's' issues, and Minneapolis firms put much of their efforts into the arts. The goal for Marquis and colleagues is to explain these systematic differences across locales.... View Details
                    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
                    • 17 Feb 2016
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

                    learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]... View Details
                    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
                    • 08 Feb 2000
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

                    change," she said. "Now because of the changing workforce, we're challenging basic assumptions." To demonstrate the skills necessary for negotiation, Kolb presented a hypothetical situation (Jane's Dilemma), in which a female partner of a View Details
                    Keywords: by Martha Lagace