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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
producing companies became larger and more autonomous. Even producers, if they happened to be small operators of oil refineries, iron works, and cigarette factories, could not begin to compete with the new giants. So they often faced the... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
facing Houston, one of the biggest is our need for talent driven by the growth in the region,” says Gilbane. “Despite the excellent universities here, we can’t produce enough talented workers to fill all the opportunities we have at these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
visit local attractions. The optional activities include a spice tour, a snorkeling and scuba-diving excursion, and a walking tour of Stone Town that takes us to several museums, a local meat and produce market, and the disturbing site of... View Details
Ernest H. Volwiler
its pharmaceutical products. He contributed to the commercialization of penicillin and sulfa drugs during World War II and produced top level financial returns for Abbott during his tenure as CEO. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Alden J. Laborde
One year after founding the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Laborde had produced the world’s first offshore mobile drilling rig, quickly setting a new standard in the industry. This was followed by a series of new oil drilling... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Ewing M. Kauffman
Using his middle name as his company’s name, Kauffman built a fledging pharmaceutical business initially housed in his basement into a $1 billion operation by the time he sold Marion Labs to Merrell Dow. Kauffman built his business by licensing products View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507036 Earthbound Farm Harvard Business School Case 807-061 Describes a set of decisions confronting the senior management of Earthbound Farm, the largest organic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
Instrument Company (GMI), which produces banjos, mandolins, drums, and keyboards, as well as guitars. With quality firmly reestablished as Gibson's core competency, Juszkiewicz hopes one day to be the world's largest maker of quality... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
public health” mandate; and extending patent life proactively in areas such as Alzheimer’s to help open up the supply of new drugs. Is there a framework in another country—could be a hybrid model of multiple developed or developing nations—where public and private... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services to "make" internally as opposed to what it buys in the marketplace. A firm may integrate "forward" into the channels used to distribute its output to customers, or "backward" into the supply chain that provides inputs the firm... View Details
Joseph A. Martino
Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Paul W. Litchfield
substantial expansion and investments. Under his direction, Goodyear began to experiment in the development of airplane parts and fighter aircraft, becoming one of the ten largest producers in this field during World War II. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
James C. Donnell
Donnell had grown the assets of Ohio Oil to $108 million, and Ohio Oil owned or operated under lease 5 million acres of oil and gas producing lands and drilled approximately 42,000 wells. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
(e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact that states cannot View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Frank A. Seiberling
a profit, but after Seiberling hired an astute MIT engineer and poured money into product development, Goodyear was producing about 40,000 tires per day and had revenues of $205 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Lee R. Raymond
head of the largest oil corporation in the world, Raymond has consistently produced results which have exceeded competitors and market expectations. Exxon Mobil beat the S&P 500 performance every year between 1993 and 2003. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine... View Details
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Daniel Serna
Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the business environment." When he... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
promotions with peers, Rice writes. Or when employers produce diversity plans that lack the rigor that is expected of every other part of the business practice—a fact-based diagnosis of the problem, quantifiable goals, interim progress... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and conservation. They agreed that View Details