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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000.... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
engineering team, which she has grown to more than 150 engineers in Seattle and San Francisco. She started coding when she was five on an Apple IIe, and has built software and led teams at high-growth tech View Details
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Orbis | Baker Library
Orbis A global private company comparison database containing millions of company data points. Read More ORBIS, a global company database, is unique in breadth of geographies... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
activities cancelled and some teams' facilities closed, there won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players and some teams having to conduct the draft... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
In a profile of Peet’s Coffee CEO David Burwick (MBA 1989), the East Bay Times details the company’s growth under his watch: Since 2013, annual sales have jumped from $395 million to almost $800 million, 70 new locations have been added,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
or had previous experience as a head coach did not suffer significant second-half tenure penalties. On the other hand, Super Bowl non-winners, shorter-tenured coaches, and first-time coaches all fell prey to the second-half tenure penalty. Meanwhile, the age of coaches... View Details
Steven J. Ross
Ross built a small family funeral parlor business into the world’s largest media company by the time of his death. In 1962, Ross took the funeral parlor business, Kinney, public at a market valuation of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William T. Grant
Grant had established a chain of 30 stores, the 25 cent-limit on merchandise was raised to one dollar. W. T. Grant Company evolved into one of the largest retailing companies in the nation. By the View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Tegus | Baker Library
experts to provide industry and company context on public and private companies. Includes financial models and company benchmarking data for over 4,000 companies across sectors... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
it’s a symbol of America around the world. “It’s a good time to leave. It’s the right time for the company that I leave. I will be doing things; some will be in the public... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
well during these turbulent times. “In venture capital, a third of the companies you put money into are just going to go belly up,” Gompers says. “But maybe 10 or 15 percent of your companies will go on to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers? Every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, but actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep, says Professor John Quelch. Here’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
(photo by Leah Fasten) My impetus to start my own company was so somebody else couldn’t control my destiny. My first company was Cameesa, an apparel company with a Kickstarter... View Details
Keywords: April White
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D&B Hoovers | Baker Library
D&B Hoovers A large database of public and private companies and their executives throughout the world that could help you identify job leads. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff No access at this View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
the New York Times Company. We took the company public, and ultimately merged it with EarthLink. “After that, I got a call from a friend who was working with the brother of John Kerry. Kerry was, at the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
grow the business to five times its size over a period of three years. Then when Dzodan graduated university, he decided to temporarily pivot away from entrepreneurship, and he joined a large Argentinian View Details
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Datastream | Baker Library
Datastream Historic and global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff In person access only HBS... View Details
John F. Queeny
When base-chemical shipments stopped coming from Germany during World War I, Queeny kept his company afloat by transforming it into its own raw materials producer. By the time of his death, Monsanto had... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
new hire costs an organization in the time spent overcoming often steep learning curves. Even so, transitioning has not generally been taught as a specific management skill, until now. Most companies report... View Details
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 View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics