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William F. Kerby
Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
"dream" in conversation more frequently than "market cap," "stock options," or "IPO." A native of Bombay, India, Ranadivé says he feels both international and American. "You can have big dreams here," he remarks. "The United View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different... View Details
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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
Wilbert L. Smith
After leaving behind the first family company, Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, Wilbert and his brothers formed the entity that later became L.C. Smith Corona. Under Wilbert Smith’s leadership, the company re-engineered their product, capitalizing on improvements made... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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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
Sebastian S. Kresge
Kresge built the precursor to K-Mart, one of the first mass discounters. He started with ten-cent stores and developed full-fledged variety stores. By his retirement, his chain had almost 600 United States... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
University School of Medicine, and HBS. The researchers plan to replicate the study internationally to compare costs in Switzerland and other countries. It’s complicated As for why administrative costs are so high in the United View Details
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
B432 4 boxes, approx. 600 photographs Collection Guide The collection documents electric railway cars and lines in twenty-six states and in Washington, D.C. First introduced in the United View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections
credit. The collection is strongest in Western Europe and the United States from the fifteenth through1850. Thematic strengths are the history of political economy, economic philosophy, business theory,... View Details
Hans W. Becherer
Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Walter H. Annenberg
Annenberg built a fledgling, debt-burdened newspaper business into a publishing empire. He introduced Seventeen in 1944 – sparking a new trend in targeted publications to America’s youth. In 1953, he overcame numerous logistical challenges to launch TV Guide, combining... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
William E. Corey
Corey presided over a period of re-investment and modernization for United States Steel. During his tenure, he increased earnings over $20 million from $109 million to $131 million with an asset base of over... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Peter W. Olson: By the Book
says of his twelve-year stint in Japan and Germany. "My first marriage was to a Russian woman, so I also got to know the Soviet Union very well." He returned to the United States in 1989, when the eldest of... View Details
- June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States
Kirby, William C., and Noah B. Truwit. "Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 323-101, June 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
United States Patent and Trademark Office on the number of medical device patents in states during the same period. They found, on average, that once a View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Broken Link
of schools and libraries didn’t have a broadband connection that met their needs. Although nearly all public K–12 schools in the United States were connected to the internet by 2006, most had slow dial-up or... View Details