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    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 Depression and helped grow assets... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • 03 Oct 2019

    Information Session in Orlando

    Join us to learn more about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. You will have the opportunity to hear from local alumni about the value of the HBS MBA. View Details
    • 17 Jun 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

    Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 17 Jun 2016
    • News

    Companies Need to Start Marketing Safety to Customers

    • June 17, 2016
    • Comment

    Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

    By: John A. Quelch
    Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Safety; Public Safety; Brand Attraction; Risk Management; Safe Environment Benefit; Marketing Safety; Global Brands; Advertising; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Customers; Music Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; United States
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    • September 2015 (Revised June 2018)
    • Case

    Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State

    By: Boris Groysberg, Das Narayandas, Benson P. Shapiro and Sarah L. Abbott
    In 2009, Lee O'Rourke was promoted to district vice president in charge of Macy's newly created North Florida district. This district consisted of 11 stores located in the greater Orlando area and in the east coast towns of Daytona, Melbourne, Merritt Island, and Vero... View Details
    Keywords: Human Capital; Managing Performance; Retail; Organization; Change Management; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 17 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 17, 2015

    in the greater Orlando area and in the east coast towns of Daytona, Melbourne, Merritt Island, and Vero Beach. The performance of these stores had lagged in recent years, and O'Rourke was charged with building a cross-functional district... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

    Hooley Rakesh Khurana Alexandra Killewald Talia Konkle Max Krasnow Michèle Lamont Ellen Langer Joscha Legewie Ya-Wen Lei Patrick Mair Peter V. Marsden Katie A. McLaughlin Richard J. McNally Jason P. Mitchell Ellis Monk Matthew K. Nock View Details
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Corporation of America, 1946–1994 Thomas J. Watson, Jr. IBM, 1955–1971 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. IBM, 1914–1955 Orlando F. Weber Allied Chemical and Dye Company, 1920–1935 Sanford I. Weill Travelers Group/CitiGroup, 1986–2003 Ernest T. Weir... View Details
    • 08 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

    gay bar in Orlando to kill 49 people and wound another 53. And while gays and lesbians enjoy more rights today transgender people still face severe discrimination and get murdered on a weekly basis just for being who they are. When you... View Details
    • 2008
    • Simulation

    Pricing Simulation: Universal Car Rental

    By: John T. Gourville
    This web-based simulation presents an engaging context in which students develop their knowledge of pricing by managing a rental car operation (Universal) in Florida and improve regional performance by developing a pricing strategy. The simulation involves three... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Consumer Behavior; Price; Profit; Renting or Rental; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Miami; Orlando; Tampa
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    • 18 Jan 2018
    • News

    The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

    time. I'll give you another example-- delivery. We've announced we have launched delivery with UberEats. We started discussions with UberEats five weeks later. We had our first pilot restaurants up and running. And four weeks after that, we had 200 restaurants in... View Details
    Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
    • Web

    News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Involved Videos Books News Coverage VBHCD in the News Finding Value in the Cost of BPH Care MEDPAGE TODAY Charles Bankhead (March 2015) Fast-Track Process Cuts Time in PACU and Saves Money ANESTHESIOLOGY NEWS Shannon Firth (September 2014) The Science of Improvement... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

    dinner-dance on the final evening rounded out the Reunion's active social agenda, which provided alumni and their families with ample opportunities to explore the Orlando area and to spend time enjoying the warm Florida sunshine with old... View Details
    • 01 Nov 2012
    • News

    First and Goal

    American Youth Football National Championships in 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The tournament also presented leadership challenges as some of the team’s paperwork was mishandled by administrators. As a result, the team arrived in Orlando... View Details
    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    Well Matched

    over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance
    • 01 Mar 2011
    • News

    Local Hero

    understands fans’ fascination with what he calls “the rolling soap opera” of the prolonged baseball season. He still can’t quite believe it when he sees baseball icons such as Willie Mays (who serves as an official ambassador for the Giants), View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment