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Charles D. Tandy
Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1 million in largely uncollectible receivables, Tandy assembled a... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Cyrus R. Smith
Praised by his employees at American, Smith led the passenger transport revolution in the airline industry. Under Smith’s guidance, American became the first airline to use the popular DC-3 planes in 1936, allowing the carrier to turn its first profit. Throughout his... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
John P. Mackey
Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the mainstream of America through... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Eugene Holman
Holman’s greatest contribution to the company came soon after his election as chairman, when he began negotiating for 30% of the stock of the Arabian-American Oil Company, enjoying special concessions for crude oil, production, and refining in the Middle East. His... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Mary Kay Ash
Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By 1977, the company had over... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Michael Dell
In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via phone or the internet directly with Dell... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
W. Alton Jones
Jones, as president of Cities Service Company (a holding company controlling petroleum, natural gas, and power subsidiaries), was responsible for completing oil pipelines from Texas to major East coast cities (3,128 miles). View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Patrick E. Haggerty
Haggerty led Texas Instruments into the manufacture of transistors - the first to make them cheaply enough to be commercially viable. During Haggerty’s tenure, the company expanded its overseas market (47 manufacturing plants in 19... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
John E. Jonsson
Jonsson built Texas Instruments as a leader in transistor technology. He acquired a license for using the Bell silicon transistor patent, employed qualified personnel and started extensive research in this field, which resulted in many... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
records. “If a cow is calving, you are going to stay with her rather than go put numbers in the computer,” he notes. A native of Blue Ridge, Texas, Davis took a job at a major accounting firm after graduating from East Texas State... 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 buildings, and shipbuilding... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
James G. Treybig
Treybig was a pioneer in the early days of computer development. In 1976, his company introduced the first fail-safe, no fault minicomputer at a time when system failures and breakdowns were commonplace. By stringing together a series of computers in tandem, clients... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Henry E. Singleton
A trained electrical engineer, Singleton’s first venture at Teledyne was to create semiconductors, a product that his previous employer, Litton Industries refused to produce, even at Singleton’s behest. After only a few years in operation, Singleton began acquiring... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
James H. Clark
Clark is considered a serial entrepreneur. In 1982, he founded Silicon Graphics, which became a leading provider of three-dimensional computer graphic applications. First used by architects and designers, Silicon Graphics’ applications were deployed in the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Student Real Estate Champs
A team of six MBA students from HBS won the fourth annual National Real Estate Challenge, held at the University of Texas in November. Teams from sixteen MBA programs spent two days evaluating a case involving an investment in a high-end... View Details
Francisco A. Lorenzo
Lorenzo took over the fledgling Texas International Airways in 1972 and through major acquisitions including Continental Airlines, he built it into one of the country’s largest airline carriers. Lorenzo was skillful at managing government... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 4 PM – 7 PM CDT, 13 Mar 2016
HBS@SXSW 2016
Please join HBS@SXSW for a Backyard BBQ and Alumni New Venture Competition. View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Minneapolis. It was beautiful, and a great time to just think.” Jonathan Gary Dallas, Texas CV: Account associate, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California “I had to do some shopping once I got to Boston—a pair of L.L. Bean boots and a down... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
and sales management, spoke on the subject “Specialties vs. Commodities: It’s Not All about the Price.” He is pictured with Philadelphia Club chairman V.J. Pappas (MBA ’76, at left) and Robert Bristol Collins (MBA ’91). Health Industry Alumni Present Life Sciences... View Details