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George W. Hill
Hill led the American Tobacco Company (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) into the era of mass advertising. By the end of his life, he was regarded by many as the world’s most successful salesman, a corporate genius whose company consistently made money even during the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Henry J. Heinz II
Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946. Through an extensive and well-planned set of acquisitions and other... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Leonard Abramson
Abramson accurately predicted the need for prepaid medical plans to manage spiraling medical spending in the 60’s and 70’s and founded U. S. Healthcare to capitalize on this opportunity. Abramson built a fast-growing and extremely profitable business culminating in an... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Arthur C. Dorrance
In 1931, Dorrance began radio advertising, sponsoring famous radio programs like the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show and the Campbell Playhouse. Dorrance introduced Cream of Mushroom Soup in 1934, and in the same year renamed “Chicken with Noodles” soup “Chicken... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 21 Jun 2023
Top Business Schools Discuss: The Value of an MBA
Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of students in business school and beyond. The event will feature a... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
Top MBAs: London
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of students in business school and beyond. The event will feature... View Details
Ellsworth M. Statler
Having made a small fortune in the restaurant business, Statler opened his first hotel in 1907. Unlike most other hotels of the early 1900s, Statler’s hotels, of which there were 6 by the time of his death, had many rare traits: private bathrooms, personal telephones,... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
John R. Stafford
Stafford is credited with moving American Home Products from a diversified manufacturer of consumer health products into a major pharmaceutical company. He did so while consistently achieving impressive financial returns – continuing AHP’s 38-year trend of top return... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Herbert J. Siegel
Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and pursued a series of shrewd media... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Walter A. Munns
Munns presided over the continued growth and diversification of Smith Kline. He orchestrated strategic acquisitions in the consumer and medical business arenas, introduced “Contac” and other Smith Kline medicines to the international market, and expanded investments in... View Details
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Andrew W. Mellon
Mellon took over his family’s small private bank and turned it into one of the largest sources of venture capital in American history. Mellon played a substantial role in supplying capital for expanding industries, especially steel and oil. He was the driving force... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Howard H. McClintic
Marshall and McClintic built the largest independent steel fabricating firm in the United States. Among their numerous projects were the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Waldorff Astoria Hotel. By 1931, the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
George H. Love
Love took control of his uncle’s struggling coal operation and built it into the largest and most successful coal mining operation in the US. Through a series of acquisitions and mergers, Love was able to achieve broader economies of scale. His technology investments... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Harvey H. Lamm
Lamm created the only publicly traded car importer in the United States through the founding of Subaru of America. He introduced the United States to “four wheel drive” and “all wheel drive” with the import of the Subaru wagon in 1975, a move that would spawn a new... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Daniel C. Keefe
During his tenure as CEO, Keefe generated strong financial returns – both Ingersoll’s return on assets and market value performance placed the company among the top 50 financial performers in the U.S. during the 1950’s. Keefe more than doubled the company’s earnings –... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Samuel F. Hinkle
Starting as a chemist with Hershey, Hinkle played a prominent role in the development of Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, Krackel, Mr. Goodbar and fortified chocolate bars issued as K, C, and D rations during World War II. As CEO, Hinkle put Hershey on a course for... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Harry B. Cunningham
Cunningham took over S. S. Kresge with a vision to convert the retail chain into a discounter. Cunningham opened the first K-Mart discount store in a Detroit suburb in 1962. When Cunningham embarked on his mission, company sales were $483 million, less than half of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
different arms of the system,” wrote Charles E. Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. 25 The Pennsylvania Railroad alone, which employed over 110,000 workers by 1891, dwarfed the number of personnel of the... View Details
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Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets
of the Andes (Colombia), University of Glasgow (Scotland), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). For ideas on ways that you may utilize CEM transcripts and video... View Details