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Thomas H. McInnerney
McInnerney built the precursor to Kraft Industries. After acquiring Kraft-Phoenix Company, the new company was ranked as one of America’s largest with sales of $375 million in 1930. It accounted for 40% of the nation’s annual cheese... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho... View Details
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
Carpenter was only the second man not of the duPont name in the 145-year history of the company to have been elected president. Carpenter expanded duPont to include diversified chemical lines and grew sales to more than $650 million. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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Fereshteh Zeineddin
As Fereshteh Zeineddin sees it, beauty is much more than skin deep. Her passion for cosmetics (she was a L'Oreal sales manager for two and a half years) is rooted in her appreciation for what beauty can mean. "I am inspired"... View Details
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box (TN)
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [306064]. View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
billion in revenue during the 24-hour sale. Another e-tailing competitor, India's Flipkart, hosted its own "Big Billion Day Sale" in October of 2014 and managed to attract 1.5 million shoppers and top $100 million in sales in... View Details
Robert A. Chesebrough
Chesebrough organized the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company in 1875, of which he was president until 1908. Chesebrough’s firm began with the production of kerosene, but after 1881 focused solely on the manufacturing of Vaseline. Chesebrough quickly established... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
remains to be seen is whether buyers will pony up the suggested retail price of $1,295 per pair. Hanson, a pioneer of the rear-entry boot, acknowledges that “in this very, very difficult economy,” there is “some skepticism around making this price point work for us,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry... View Details
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from B2B View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
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Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
and analysis," says Quelch. A Smoking Market Uncertainty over health data hasn't hurt the product's popularity. In 2013, electronic cigarettes tripled in sales in the US to approximately $3 billion. (The overall tobacco retail market... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50453 November 2, 2015 Harvard Business Review The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Daniel Weinfurter Abstract—Companies typically spend more on hiring in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Paul B. Wishart
Under Wishart’s direction, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, a pioneer producer of automatic control devices, became Honeywell, Incorporated, a diversified electronics manufacturer. While putting Honeywell on a path of diversification, Wishart doubled View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Finding a Time Series of Financial Data in Compustat | Baker Library
check Company Name and CUSIP In Income Statement Items check SALE -- Sales/Turnover (Net) (You may select additional data items) Step Four: Output Choose Tab-delimited text (*.txt) format Leave all other boxes in this step as is Click... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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A Former Buyer Turns Designer
working on the field study, I knew I was going to have a career in fashion.” Last year, after working in fashion sales and merchandising, she struck out on her own. “I’d always aspired to be an entrepreneur,” said Yaqub. View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
focused on 23andMe, whose sale of genetic testing kits directly to consumers was challenged by the Food & Drug Administration. Quelch, who coauthored the case, is also on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Sales... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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South Africa Explorer
we headed to Stellenbosch, the capital of South Africa’s wine region. We delighted in an elegant French-style picnic at the Boschendal wine estate, coordinated by Julian Coulter (MBA ’03), export sales and marketing manager. In addition,... View Details