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  • 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

    Clayton L. Mathile

    Mathile bought the struggling pet food company from the founder when it had only one main product. Over the next decade, Mathile increased the company’s revenues by tenfold and introduced a full line of pet food View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • 10 Jun 2014
    • News

    Finance Minister Addresses Canada-US Energy Concerns

    Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
    • 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
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      George M. Humphrey

      Through a number of successful mergers and acquisitions, Humphrey dramatically expanded and diversified M. A. Hanna’s production. By the end of his tenure, the company had assets of more than $120 million,... View Details
      Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

        Henry B. Spencer

        After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With... View Details
        Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
        • 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

          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
              • Profile

              Ann Chao

              Accepted into HBS’ 2+2 program, Ann completed her college education then worked as a consultant for a German firm in Beijing. “Nuclear power, automotive, steel distribution, financial services – I got a good view of many different kinds... View Details
              • 28 Oct 2001
              • What Do You Think?

              What Can We Expect in the Other War?

              most sensitive and talented prospects away? Will work groups be broken into increasingly smaller sizes, typical of the philosophy on which Nucor Steel was built—when a plant reaches a size of roughly two... View Details
              Keywords: by James Heskett

                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 Jun 2011
                • News

                Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

                Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation... View Details
                Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
                • 01 Mar 2010
                • News

                Sole Mates

                well-known multinational mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, one of the largest... View Details
                Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging

                  John H. MacMillan, Jr.

                  During MacMillan’s presidency, the family grain business grew significantly. He invested in several large grain elevators within the United States and expanded Cargill’s operations to Europe (becoming the largest European grain company)... View Details
                  Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
                  • 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
                  Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
                  • 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
                  • Portrait Project

                  Greta Gerazimaite

                  today, my opinion is no longer mine alone. My voice carries weight, and I feel a responsibility to speak up.  I want to raise more voices than I silence. I want to inspire those who doubt themselves – like I... View Details