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Ward Melville
After mass-producing shoes for soldiers in World War I, Melville and an associate opened Thom McAn’s in New York as a low cost, high quality shoe retailer. The chain eventually encompassed over 1,200 stores. With Thom McAn’s as its anchor retail establishment, Melville... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- September – October 1999
- Article
Creating Breakthroughs at 3M
By: E. Von Hippel, S. Thomke and M. Sonnack
Von Hippel, E., S. Thomke, and M. Sonnack. "Creating Breakthroughs at 3M." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 5 (September–October 1999). (Reprinted in Health Forum Journal (July/August 2000). Also reprinted in Harvard Business Review on Innovation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.)
- January 1989 (Revised March 2009)
- Supplement
General Electric: Valley Forge (F)
By: Robert L. Simons
Simons, Robert L. "General Electric: Valley Forge (F)." Harvard Business School Supplement 189-014, January 1989. (Revised March 2009.)
Anthony Overton
success with Hygienic into a highly diverse conglomerate, including The Great Northern Realty Company, The Chicago Bee, and the Victory Life Insurance Company. This was the first major conglomerate led by an African-American. View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
W. Michael Blumenthal
When Blumenthal took over Bendix, it had become a gigantic conglomerate producing a bewildering variety of products. Blumenthal sold several of the company’s unprofitable divisions, and doubled company sales during his tenure to more than... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- Career Coach
Rachel Hoang
Rachel can assist students who are interested in pursuing a career in sports, media, and entertainment. She has experience working in a smaller entertainment technology company and a large media conglomerate and can help navigate the... View Details
- January 1971 (Revised October 1975)
- Case
Ling Temco Vought, Inc.
Keywords: Business Conglomerates
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Ling Temco Vought, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 272-102, January 1971. (Revised October 1975.)
- April 2007 (Revised August 2009)
- Supplement
Cargill (B)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jose M. M. Porraz
Keywords: Business Conglomerates
Goldberg, Ray A., and Jose M. M. Porraz. "Cargill (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 907-415, April 2007. (Revised August 2009.)
Carl H. Lindner, Jr.
Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company in the late 1950’s, Lindner went... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
By: Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
Feldman, Emilie, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." December 2009.
- March 2008 (Revised November 2012)
- Teaching Note
GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project (TN)
Teaching Note for [907048]. View Details
Frank A. Vanderlip
United States bank, National City’s branch in Buenos Aires, and to the creation of the banking conglomerate American International Corporation, which had operations in 17 countries by 1918. Because of Vanderlip’s leadership, National City... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Harold L. Stuart
Following its spin off from N. W. Halsey, Stuart continued his Chicago-based firm’s strong presence in bond issuance, helping raise funds for many industrial conglomerates that, until that time, had always gone to New York for financing.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
James H. Rand, Jr.
Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership, company sales grew 100 fold from... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a better India through business and philanthropy
the Piramal Group into one of India’s largest conglomerates and the country’s third-largest pharmaceutical company. “We have transformed ourselves from an India-centric business to a global business,” says Piramal. “Today, the majority of... View Details
Nicholas M. Schenck
When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to efficiency and to “the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William S. Paley
After entering the media and entertainment field on somewhat of a whim, Paley grew his small radio concern into a media conglomerate with success in radio, television, music, media equipment and more. CBS competed heavily with the larger,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
James J. Ling
Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to sustain parent company growth... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Communications