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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
track record of producing healthy, productive offspring. “Now my grandpa and all the other farmers can get the best bulls, plural, for pennies on the dollar, create a breeding program, and track results to improve milk production,” she... View Details
William C. Procter
Under Procter's guidance, P&G grew out of its mid-western roots as a soap producer into a national consumer goods conglomerate. Procter was responsible for the creation of many famous brands, including Crisco shortening, but also... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Sending a warning about climate change dangers
Dan Abbasi (AB 1986, MBA 1998) has produced “Years of Living Dangerously,” a Showtime TV series about the impact of climate change. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
whether we value one another as human beings.” About the Author Danielle Kost is the senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a... View Details
Robert E. Price
Price, along with his father, founded the first discount-shopping club. Initially targeting small businesses, the Price Club opened up memberships to individuals and other organizations who could benefit from bulk/warehouse purchasing discounts. With his business... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) produces chocolates with a mission. As founder of sweetriot, Endline works directly with Latin American cacao farmers to ensure a fair price for their labor. Founded in 2005, sweetriot’s product mix features dark... View Details
Joy Morton
Morton founded the Morton Salt Company, which became the most important firm in the salt industry under his leadership. By 1927, the company produced upwards of 600,000 tons of evaporated salt per annum and also distributed 400,000 tons... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Olive Ann M. Beech
In 1932, Beech assisted her husband in forming the Beech Aircraft Corporation, and within a short time, the company prospered and dominated the market for privately-owned small, commercial planes. Beech Aircraft was also an important defense contractor during World War... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Leo H. Baekeland
In 1907, Baekeland invented a high-quality synthetic substance that would change the lives of individuals and businesses forever – plastic (called Bakelite). Products produced with Bakelite were considered to be synonymous with high... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Arthur J. Decio
Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to 25 companies with 3,500 employees in 12 states. In the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
muscle of the country’s manufacturing sector. But Tata said that India cannot rely on the manufacturing and service sectors to produce jobs; it needs to add jobs in the agricultural sector. “We have to understand the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Climate change as must-see TV
already killing 150,000 people annually, according to the World Health Organization,” says Abbasi, executive producer of a nine-part, $17 million documentary series on the human impact of climate change called “Years of Living... View Details
John T. Underwood
Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Joseph Boyer
Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Jon M. Huntsman
Beginning with a packaging company, which designed the pioneering clamshell container for McDonald’s Big Mac, Huntsman grew his business into the largest privately held diversified chemical company in North America. In addition to View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Arde Bulova
Profoundly influencing the art of watch making, Bulova is credited with establishing numerous manufacturing processes that permitted the standardization of parts and movements. Bulova also designed a considerable number of special tools, gauges, and complicated... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
warnings that it was dangerous for foreigners to enter the township. Along with good food, camaraderie, and jazz, she discovered some fabulous wines with an added, rare distinction: they were produced by black South African vintners.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erling Lorentzen (MBA 1948) was a prominent figure at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and for decades led a number of sustainable development initiatives as chairman of Brazil’s giant pulp and paper producer Aracruz Celulose S.A.;... View Details
Herman Brown
Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real estate concerns, office... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate