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Lewis W. Lehr
In his first year at the helm of 3M, Lehr presided over a major reorganization of the company’s diversified operations into 4 distinct divisions. The new and improved 3M began to focus on quality and innovation, as Lehr invested heavily in research and development, the... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles F. Knight
Knight introduced a methodical planning process throughout all company activities that focused on financial performance metrics. Under his leadership, Emerson has grown into a $14 billion company that routinely places in the top 10 among admired companies in the United... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Reginald H. Jones
A master of strategic planning, Jones designed a new organizational model for General Electric to ensure more accountability and control for specific large industry sectors. Despite a difficult economic climate, Jones was able to double revenues during his tenure from... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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 producing containers, the company has... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Raymond H. Herzog
During 40 years of service at 3M, Herzog served in a variety of roles, but he is particularly well known for helping to start 3M’s copier business that was a huge success in the 1950s. Herzog also left his mark on the company by refining quality control and the overall... View Details
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Frank M. Freimann
Capitalizing on the staggering growth of television (especially color TV), Freimann led Magnavox through an unprecedented period of prosperity. During his tenure as CEO, sales increased over ten-fold from $32 million in 1950 to over $450 million in 1967. Earnings saw... View Details
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Ralph J. Cordiner
Cordiner established the decentralized management structure at General Electric in the 50’s – an organizational structure that still exists today and is often cited as one of GE’s most important assets. Cordiner generated top market value returns over a consecutive... View Details
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Robert N. Burt
Burt took the helm of FMC Corporation in 1991 just after it had completed a major recapitalization of the business, severely impacting the balance sheet. He divested of non-core businesses, streamlined operations, and focused on new market opportunities. His efforts... View Details
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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
William Rosenthal
After discovering a need for the product in their dress making business, William and Ida Rosenthal created the “first modern uplift brassiere” in 1923. After the success of that item, business was expanded into lingerie, swimwear and other products, growing Maidenform... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Sidney Kimmel
Kimmel ran the apparel division of W. R. Grace & Company when it diversified into the fashion world in the early seventies. As Grace sought to streamline its operations, Kimmel bought the fashion business and incorporated it as Jones Apparel Group. Though he... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas Jr. was responsible for Levi’s concentration on blue jeans production. He targeted the marketing strategy to teenagers and as blue jeans became the symbol of nonconformity, Levi’s rapidly multiplied its sales and net profit. In 1970, Haas took the... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Paul Fireman
By successfully tapping the market for women’s “fashionable” athletic shoes during the nation’s aerobics craze, Fireman took Reebok from $13 million in sales in 1983 to $1.4 billion in sales just five years later. In 1986, Reebok overtook Nike as the top-selling maker... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Elisabeth Claiborne
Founded in 1976, Liz Claiborne joined the Fortune 500 list of the largest industrial companies only a decade later, one of the youngest companies ever to achieve this mark. In 1987, Liz Claiborne had sales in excess of $1 billion. All this success was a result of... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Charles A. Cannon
Cannon pioneered a number of industry advances in cloth towel manufacturing including national consumer advertising, the Cannon trademark sewn into each towel, pastel colors, the wrapping of products in clear plastic, style shows, and matching towel ensembles. Cannon... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
time, it was [with] my now-husband (we weren't married at the time) and we bought it from a woman who had started it out of her home. It was very small, not making any money, and grew it into what it is today. “The culture and the mission at Rocky Mountain Soap is the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Home, a nonprofit established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and knowledge of View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Portrait Project
Olivia vonNieda
systems weaving the fabric of oppression. My privilege is more than an opportunity. It’s a responsibility. It’s a duty. I will create spaces that celebrate people for their intricate identities. I will use my spot at the table to step... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My... View Details
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Jeanine Barnett
struggled with fiscal discipline, but the ones that got it right struck an elusive yet harmonious balance between art and science. Today as an apparel buyer, with every fabric approval and pricing analysis for my assortment, I do what I... View Details