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    Garner A. Beckett

    Through a series of four mergers, Beckett transformed his small Riverside Cement Company into the American Cement Corporation, one of the largest providers in the United States. During his tenure, the company’s revenues increased dramatically – from a few million in... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

      Franklin P. Perdue

      Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s. Perdue built his business on... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • January 1996 (Revised September 1997)
      • Case

      Scott Paper Company

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
      A professional turnaround manager attempts to implement a massive global downsizing program at the world's largest producer of consumer tissue products. The plan involves laying off almost one third of the company's 34,000 hourly and salaried employees and dramatically... View Details
      Keywords: Assets; Global Strategy; Resignation and Termination; Goals and Objectives; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Sales; Value Creation; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Scott Paper Company." Harvard Business School Case 296-048, January 1996. (Revised September 1997.)
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      Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

      Information Featuring Yuan Zou . By Rachel Layne on July 21, 2025 . Economics and Global Commerce Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy Featuring Marco E. Tabellini . By Ana Elena Azpúrua on July 17, 2025 . Managing the Business How Sharing Smart Ideas on... View Details
      • 01 Aug 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

      Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

        Edward J. Noble

        Noble founded the entity that eventually became Life Savers Incorporated and grew it from a failing mint producer into a global business, with sales of $20 million in the mid-1950s. Noble also founded the American Broadcasting Company... View Details
        Keywords: Food & Tobacco

          J. Ogden Armour

          Upon the death of his father in 1901, Armour took over the direction of Armour and Company. Under his management, sales increased from $200 million in 1900 to $1 billion in 1920. When Armour retired in 1923, the company employed over... View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco
          • 01 Dec 2022
          • News

          3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

          in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then cross-referenced that information with... View Details
          Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
          • 01 Apr 2000
          • News

          Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

          expenses associated with everyday activities such as management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. Hagel and Singer maintain that by dramatically reducing interaction costs, the Internet and other... View Details
          • 01 Jun 2020
          • What Do You Think?

          Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

          competitive challenges to Amazon in ways unimagined before the pandemic. While Amazon’s sales increased during the early months of the COVID-19 scare, by mid-April its share of online spending had fallen from 42 percent (imagine that for... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
          • 02 Jan 2019
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          Not Waiting for Progress

          civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of enthusiasm about business in general, and... View Details
          Keywords: Deborah Blagg

            Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.

            Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds... View Details
            Keywords: Healthcare

              Henry Crown

              During its first year of operation, Materials Service Corporation had sales of $218,000. Crown took over the helm shortly thereafter and grew the company until it dominated the Chicago sand and gravel market. After retiring from his... View Details
              Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

                Samuel B. Colgate

                Despite the fact that Colgate’s term as head of Colgate-Palmolive came at the height of the Depression, Colgate was able to grow the company significantly. When Colgate took over, the company had $62 million in annual sales. Five years later, Colgate had increased... View Details
                Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

                  Dorothy Shaver

                  Joining the firm in 1924, Shaver instituted a number of highly successful changes before becoming the head of L&T. Among her best ideas were the founding of the Lord & Taylor Design Awards and the creation of a special department for teenagers. Under her... View Details
                  Keywords: Retail

                    Daniel F. Gerber

                    Gerber created the baby foods market as well as the company’s advertising campaign - the “Gerber Baby,” a symbol that became world-famous. By 1973, Gerber was the world’s largest supplier of baby foods with sales of $278 billion. Gerber... View Details
                    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
                    • 01 Sep 2018
                    • News

                    Case Study: A Good Fit

                    billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the sales cycles can last up to a... View Details
                    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
                    • 08 Mar 2019
                    • Blog Post

                    “There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

                    in New York City working as a healthcare consultant, and Wiegele, who spends his days working in product marketing for Hot Wheels in Los Angeles, credit their partnerships for allowing them the freedom to explore the creative side of this growing business. They brought... View Details
                    • 01 Dec 2013
                    • News

                    Double Vision

                    novice, peppering a Best Buy sales associate with a series of rapid-fire product questions, including "What's LTE—is it contagious?" AD TYPE: Product focus. This is also an attempt to move viewers to act, but sans the heavy sell. "Instead... View Details
                    Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

                      E. Gifford Upjohn

                      Upjohn played an instrumental role in supporting legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to prove a drug’s effectiveness in clinical trials prior to its general release. A physician by training, Upjohn established the Medical Division of the company in 1937.... View Details
                      Keywords: Healthcare
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