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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
introducing other new products like the Scooba a robot mop that are targeted to solve more difficult household chores.” Clocky’s sales have begun to flatten by 2010, when the follow-up case, “Nanda Home,” takes place. Revenues in 2009... View Details
Milton S. Hershey
Hershey founded the first mass market chocolate company in 1900. His chocolate bar was so popular that the company did not advertise it until 25 years after his death. The company’s sales grew rapidly from $622,000 in 1901 to $55 million... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Katharine M. Graham
By hiring and supporting top-notch editors, Graham made the Washington Post into one of the top newspapers in the nation. Under Graham, the Post emerged as the country’s fifth largest daily by circulation - 602,000 daily and 828,000 on Sunday. By 1966, the Post was... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Roy L. Ash
In 1953, Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. Litton embarked on an aggressive acquisition course. By 1961, the same year Ash became president of the company, Litton had completed 25 mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
James E. Preston
Preston re-focused Avon on its core product offerings growing revenues from $3 billion to $5 billion, and more than doubling the number of sales representatives to 2.6 million. Preston produced 10 years of consecutive increases in... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Leonard Abramson
Abramson accurately predicted the need for prepaid medical plans to manage spiraling medical spending in the 60’s and 70’s and founded U. S. Healthcare to capitalize on this opportunity. Abramson built a fast-growing and extremely profitable business culminating in an... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Gerard Swope
expansion was so successful that by 1930, it accounted for 50% of GE’s business. Under Swope’s guidance, GE’s sales grew from $200 million in 1922 to $1.35 billion in 1944. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles G. Bluhdorn
Corporation. By 1970, the company had become the 64th largest industrial corporation in America with annual sales of $1.6 billion, assets of over $4 billion and some 85,000 employees. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Margaret F. Rudkin
employed mostly women during a period when women in the work place were not commonplace. Rudkin orchestrated the sale pf Pepperidge Farm to Campbell Soup Company in 1960. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Theodore G. Montague
items as prescription foods, animal and poultry feed supplements, and industrial adhesives. In the process, Montague increased sales from $237 million to over $810 million and more than tripled earnings from $6.3 million to $23 million. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
moved from Henderson’s home to a large industrial plant. Under Henderson’s leadership, HI has grown from a small basement enterprise with $20,000 in sales to a large industrial technology firm with revenues of $50 million. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Isaac Gimbel
In 1909, Gimbel built a Gimbel Brothers Department Store in New York City, which became a huge success. Building upon this success, Gimbel purchased a 16-story building in New York, to which he added three more floors to give Gimbel Brothers Department store 27 acres... View Details
Keywords: Retail
John H. Bryan, Jr.
When Bryan took over Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation, the company was a $2.5 billion dollar conglomerate. Bryan made significant acquisitions including the Hanes Corporation, which experienced a doubling of View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
stores are a newer concept. These days you could be an upscale, middle-income individual and still need to stretch your dollar. Just this week our sales flyer featured a ten-pound bag of potatoes. That’s a pleasant surprise for a lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
this seasonal side business, where 99 percent of his customers leave with a tree—a sales rate few retailers can imagine. “Plus it’s Christmas, so everyone’s in a great mood.” View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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
- July 2011
- Article
Mixed Source
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. We examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Profit; Sales; Applications and Software; Service Operations; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Quality; Value Creation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes. "Mixed Source." Management Science 57, no. 7 (July 2011): 1212–1230.
- 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
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