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01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

$205,000). By Invitation Only, a book detailing their entrepreneurial journey, will be published in April. AW: Marvin, you spend a lot of time traveling abroad. Are there any innovative retail concepts that you see outside the United... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Charles L. Brown

Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Pierre S. du Pont

duPont headed the duPont Corporation during the period of the first World War. During duPont’s presidency, the corporation was greatly expanded in order to meet munitions orders from the United States and... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

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... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Debra J. S. Fields

Capitalizing on the trend of upscale home baked goods, Fields began the company with one store in California in 1977 and, by 1984, had expanded to 160 stores in the United States and four international... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

25 Jun 2018
News

An Unfinished Story

In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

inexperienced, and called McCain's judgment into question. Like any great brand, Obama has built up a bond of trust with the American people. His election has also given the United States the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United States are global leaders in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

Francis C. Brown

Schering, a German company, was one of the first to be seized by the United States during World War II under the Alien Property Custodian Act. Accepting what he thought was a temporary post, Brown built... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Associations in the United States and Prussia," Business and Economic History , Second Series, vol. 19 (1990): 133-142. - Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the View Details

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most states allow the buyer to take home a firearm immediately after completion of an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

John P. Morgan, Jr.

Morgan Jr. continued his father’s methods and policies in dealing with industry, railroads, banks and other institutions and grew J. P. Morgan and Company’s business. He made his most important impact through government-financed projects during World War I. From early... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Enables creation of maps and tables for the United States that incorporate data such as... View Details

James L. Kraft

large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

23 Aug 2017
News

Developing Leaders Behind Bars

Chris Michel (MBA 1998) has taken photographs all over the world. He recently had the opportunity to visit the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California to document the graduation ceremony of a unique business program for... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

U.S. companies were completely different, marked by the pioneering spirit and sense of limitless opportunity that pervaded American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The United View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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Fast Facts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Locations 5 Asia (China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka), Cuba, Los Angeles, Israel, Japan CASES 52.6 % Cases published in FY22 were globally oriented 5.3 m Sold outside the United States in FY21 View Details

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

William R. Hearst

journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

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