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    Robert D. Stuart, Jr.

    Joining the family firm after serving in World War II, Robert Jr. was responsible for Quaker Oats’ biggest diversification since his Uncle John was president. Much of Stuart’s expansion came in non-food business areas, his most notable... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco

      Michel C. Bergerac

      Bergerac, however, is most known for the extensive diversification of Revlon into a health care products business. With the acquisition of companies in such areas as drugs, vision care, and medical diagnostics, the expanded health care... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
      • 27 Jul 2021
      • Video

      Aroon Purie

      Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today, describes diversifying first into different magazine variations by launching regional editions of India Today, Business Today, men’s health, and moving into women’s lifestyle magazines and acquiring... View Details
      • 09 Oct 2020
      • Video

      Mahbubur Rahman

      Mahbubur Rahman, who had already started trading, banking and insurance businesses in Bangladesh, explains why he entered newspaper publishing, and how this business has become profitable despite the experience of peers. View Details
      • 31 Oct 2019
      • Video

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chair of the Philippines-based Ayala Group, with interests in real estate, public infrastructure, insurance, and banking, discusses how the government’s liberalization program in... View Details
      • Video

      Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez

      Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former General Manager of the FNC, articulates the strategies he undertook to differentiate and add value to Colombian coffee products. View Details
      • 10 Nov 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

      industry experts who estimated the returns to be significantly lower than professional venture investing due to less investor diversification and capital limitations that prevent investment in follow-on rounds. Given this, the team... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls
      • September 2004
      • Article

      Diversity as Strategy

      By: David A. Thomas
      Keywords: Diversification
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        Leland I. Doan

        Doan was responsible for Dow Chemical’s greatest diversification and expansion. Doan began by delegating increased authority to department heads and building a larger sales force trained to become market and production analysts. Upon... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

          Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.

          diversification program that produced the first mass-market postage meter and a complete line of integrated mail processing equipment. Many of Pitney-Bowes’ machines set the standard for the United States Postal Service. View Details
          Keywords: Computers & Electronics
          • 19 Sep 2011
          • Research & Ideas

          Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

          was to get widespread diversification. "Reinsurance holds out the prospect that diversification will cheapen the cost of reinsurance and make it attractive to share risk. But if [reinsurers] don't diversify, they can't offer that.... View Details
          Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

            Ian K. MacGregor

            Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the CEO of American Metal. Through his shrewd cost management... View Details
            Keywords: Metals
            • 2012
            • Article

            The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

            By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
            We address a puzzle surrounding the shift from bundling to unbundling of U.S. advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency’s decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a... View Details
            Keywords: Bundling; Unbundling; Advertising Agency Services; Fixed Cost; Higher Media Prices; Volume; Diversification; Advertising; Change; Advertising Industry; United States
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            • 11 Apr 2017
            • First Look

            First Look at New Research, April 11

            people and have implications for the use of technological algorithms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52499 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., Zixuan... View Details
            • November 1976
            • Case

            Norton Co.: Strategic Planning for Diversified Business Operations (Abridged)

            By: Francis Aguilar
            Keywords: Strategic Planning; Diversification
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            • winter 1988
            • Article

            Diversification, Ricardian rents, and Tobin's q

            By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Birger Wernerfelt
            Keywords: Diversification; Strategy
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              William G. Mather

              Mather headed the company for 50 years. He was instrumental in consolidating several mining operations into one powerful force. He also embarked on a major diversification program by investing in iron-ore industries and steel operations. View Details
              Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

                C. William Pollard

                Pollard led ServiceMaster’s dramatic growth and diversification through the acquisitions of Terminix, TruGreen/ChemLawn, Merry Maids, and American Home Shield. During his tenure, Pollard continued ServiceMaster’s 22 consecutive years of... View Details
                Keywords: Services

                  Dean A. McGee

                  McGee, reputed to be one of the most brilliant petroleum biologists of his generation and a skilled manager, built a $1 billion+ energy company and pursued an aggressive diversification plan. Under his tenure, Kerr-McGee achieved a... View Details
                  Keywords: Utilities & Energy
                  • April 2005 (Revised August 2008)
                  • Case

                  Crisis at Japan Communications, Inc.

                  In 2001, Seiji Frank Sanda is facing his worst crisis since founding Japan Communications Inc. (JCI) in 1996. His planned IPO was stopped, leaving JCI with a large organization and strong revenues, but losses and a dwindling balance sheet. He is seriously considering... View Details
                  Keywords: Diversification; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Communications Industry; Japan
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