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  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

profitability of whole markets.— Benson P. Shapiro Make Your Price This is perhaps most true in pricing, a particularly vexing challenge in today's hypercompetitive marketplace. Major customers exert enormous pressure to force suppliers to cut prices. The View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
  • April 2004
  • Teaching Note

AMB Consolidation, The (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-899-144). View Details
Keywords: Consolidation
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    Nathan Cummings

    By 1966, Cummings had grown Consolidated Foods into the nation’s fastest growing food processor, with sales of $830 million. Cummings’ most significant acquisition was Sara Lee, which he purchased in 1956 and grew into the nation’s... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco

      Edward T. Bedford

      In 1906, Bedford became president of the newly consolidated Corn Products Refining Company. Under Bedford’s leadership, Corn Products Refining manufactured several forms of oil, including “Mazola,” several forms of sugar, and a grain... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco

        Lucio A. Noto

        Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the... View Details
        Keywords: Utilities & Energy

          William H. Nichols

          Nichols was instrumental in the building of the chemical supply business in the United States and was one of the original founders of the American Chemical Society. Under his leadership of General Chemical, its asset base and earnings levels increased threefold. This... View Details
          Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

            Roger Milliken

            Deering, Milliken and Company was founded in 1865 and had primarily been a selling house for cloth producers in the south. When Roger Milliken inherited the business in 1947, he changed the focus of the company, buying numerous mills and View Details
            Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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            HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

            2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details

              Winthrop W. Aldrich

              In 1930, the Equitable Trust, with assets over $900 million, was consolidated with Chase National Bank to form America’s mightiest bank with Aldrich as president. Aldrich grew Chase National so that by 1947, the bank had assets totaling... View Details
              Keywords: Finance
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              Alejandro Maldonado

              also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund dedicated to consolidate... View Details
              Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

                William A. Patterson

                Patterson consolidated four smaller airlines to form United Airlines, and subsequently used United to propel forward many safety initiatives in the airline industry, such as lights for night flying and two-way air-ground telephones. The... View Details
                Keywords: Transportation

                  Charles Ringling

                  Charles Ringling organized his siblings to form what would eventually become “the Greatest Show on Earth.” When the siblings began performing, they used only their personal talents, but under Charles’ leadership, the show grew into a large traveling enterprise and... View Details
                  Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

                    Carl Laemmle

                    Laemmle, one of the most outstanding figures in Hollywood, created the “star” system that was to dominate American filmmaking. He consolidated independent studios and was responsible for the development of countless movie stars. Laemmle... View Details
                    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

                      Thomas C. du Pont

                      duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his... View Details
                      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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                      HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

                      2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details

                        Sidney W. Winslow, Jr.

                        Following the death of his father, Sidney Winslow Jr. took an increasingly important role in the family company, which had been consolidated into the holding company, United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Winslow went on to expand the... View Details
                        Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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                        HBS - Financials | 5 Year Summary

                        2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials 5... View Details

                          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

                            Ernest T. Weir

                            Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate.... View Details
                            Keywords: Metals