Mississippi - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 1997
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Great Mississippi Flood of 1993

By: David A. Moss and Julie Rosenbaum

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Mississippi

28 Feb 2020

Peek Program Chat at the University of Mississippi

Join this informal chat to hear directly from a past Peek participant and learn more about the residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details

February 2018
Case

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama

The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Development Economics; Change; Leadership; Success; Mississippi

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Managing the Future of Work

Wellthy as a B Corporation delivering social impact alongside commercial returns. More on Wellthy The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A) By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman, & Donald Maruyama 08 FEB 2018 The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Lousiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri... View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

wake of the Great Depression, his passion for learning never wavered. He studied chemical engineering on his own and parlayed this knowledge into work at Hercules Powder Company, Mississippi Chemical Corporation, Grace Chemical Company,... View Details

16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

accounting techniques is partly due to a Mississippi planter and accountant named Thomas Affleck, who developed account books for plantation owners that allowed them to make sophisticated calculations and measure productivity in a... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

actually think that's right. I think that one of the reasons why I am so proud of myself is not just because I escaped apartheid Mississippi and was able to get an education and become successful in life. It's because I have paid... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one saw him go back to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

States The Institute has developed research-based economic agendas for all 50 United States. Alabama Alaska Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

U.S. History, British Literature VA Karen Maiuri Battlefield High School Battlefield High School, VA MS Vickie Malone Mississippi School of the Arts Brookhaven, MS PA Michael Mander Constitution High School Philadelphia, PA Subjects: US... View Details

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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

former CEO, Paul O'Neill, now Secretary of the Treasury (not your typical retirement, eh?) and now with the backing of Alain Belda, the company's current head. There have been some really inspirational early results in places as disparate as Hernando, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

change isn't easy, but you don't have to be omniscient to pull it off, Garvin insists. Like a 19th-century Mississippi riverboat captain steering his boat from one bend in the river to the next, you just need to rely on point-to-point... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

Frederick W. Smith

Capitalizing upon an idea that came to him while in college, Smith and his company have single handedly built and dominated the overnight delivery industry. Though the idea was slow growing at first, FedEx lost $29 million in its first two years, the need for FedEx’s... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Abe Plough

In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a multinational corporation producing such... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Earl B. Dickerson

In his first few years as CEO, Dickerson devoted his energies to changing the policy focus from industrial to ordinary life polices and to increasing the quality and number of the company’s agents. Dickerson also expanded the firm through 5 acquisitions, which spread... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Oprah G. Winfrey

Through her company, Harpo Productions, Winfrey has created a multimedia empire. Beginning as an early morning talk show host in Chicago, Winfrey parlayed this success into one of the most enduring and successful talk shows in history – “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” From... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Naomi Sims

After as short, distinguished career in modeling, Sims decided to pursue her real dreams of being an entrepreneur. An outgrowth of her modeling experiences, Naomi devoted her efforts to manufacturing “realistic” wigs for black women. Though her products met with... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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. By World War II, the firm was... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

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