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David Burpee
In 1917, the same year W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated and Burpee was named president, sales were $900,000. By 1959, Burpee had grown the company to become the largest reputed seed catalog mail order house in the world with sales... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year.... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
enough to make me say yes to the offer. I joined the company as assistant to the president. But when the president lost his job, mine disappeared, too. Back in Michigan, my father had passed away, and my... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Mexico, which runs Mexico's 58 airports. He has held deputy secretary positions with the Mexican departments of Energy and of Mines and Basic Industries. In 1980 he was a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
Erwin Kelm
Over the years, Kelm built Cargill, Incorporated into a $10 billion grain company handling more than 25% of America’s grain exports. He operated 600 plants in 38 countries, employed more than 24,000 people, and had grain elevators with... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
something precious in the meaning of that brand that they’re willing to fight for. Imagine if I changed my brand logo and no one noticed. That might mean that no one cared enough about my brand. Now, that would be negative. Of course, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
successful capital campaign, from 2002 to 2006. That experience got him to thinking. Undoubtedly, alumni were making a difference at HBS. Yet Stevenson also saw ample evidence of alumni involvement in causes that extend beyond the School. He was interested to know of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- Portrait Project
Sanjayan Manivannan
I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- News
Using Microorganisms to Extract Oil
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (D)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-045, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-043, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US View Details
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Tariro Goronga
engineering.” His first post-university assignment as an electrical engineer gave him the variety he sought. “I did pretty much everything: power supply and generation, motors, electronics.” But after two years in a View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information
By: Gunther Glenk
Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Decarbonization; Carbon Accounting; Net-zero Emissions; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Environment; Environmental Impact; Management; Sustainable Cities; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Glenk, Gunther. "Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-026, September 2023. (TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series, No. 121, May 2023.)
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine View Details
- Portrait Project
Nelly-Ange Kontchou
soil for latching onto every crease of my clothing when we got home. It wouldn’t leave me be. Before the start of business school, I step off the plane at Douala International Airport and into the suffocating heat. As I look out the exit... View Details