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Frederick W. Smith
Capitalizing upon an idea that came to him while in college, Smith and his company have single handedly built and dominated the overnight delivery industry. Though the idea was slow growing at first, FedEx lost $29 million in its first two years, the need for FedEx’s... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Abe Plough
In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a multinational corporation producing such... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Earl B. Dickerson
In his first few years as CEO, Dickerson devoted his energies to changing the policy focus from industrial to ordinary life polices and to increasing the quality and number of the company’s agents. Dickerson also expanded the firm through 5 acquisitions, which spread... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
that day was shattered when the tragic killings at Jackson State prompted a new round of demonstrations on campus, including a strike by our African-American students protesting the lack of concern, nationally and at HBS, for the shootings at the View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
ill-fated Mississippi Company. He merged this huge stock company with the royal bank and took over the public debt and administration of revenue. In 1720, a rash of speculation in land swept France, setting off frenzied selling at high... View Details
Andrew J. Higgins
Higgins originally formed his business to build motorboats, tugs and barges for lumberman and oil drillers traversing the waters of the Mississippi delta region. His innovative ship designs, which were effective in very shallow water,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
country’s poorest communities. “As executive director of Teach For America's work in Arkansas, we focus predominantly on the Mississippi Delta region of the state, which is the eastern third. It's one of the poorest regions in the entire... View Details
- September 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of a fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Microeconomics; Local Range; Government Legislation; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Competitive Strategy; Governance Controls; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Mississippi
Greenwood, Robin, Richard S. Ruback, and Robert Ialenti. "River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market." Harvard Business School Case 225-011, September 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Harbor Railway & Light Company of Hoquiam, Washington; the Mississippi River Power Company; the Utah Power and Light Company; and the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - are featured in this collection. Photographs include dramatic views... View Details
- Profile
Matt Thurmond
he left Mississippi State, he engaged in two formative adventures: leading his fraternity in a turnaround from near-bankruptcy to winning the "overall excellence award" on campus; and leading a group of fifty fellow students on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
significant within the United States, where, for example, remote workers living in Mississippi are paid about a third less than their peers in Massachusetts. This was particularly surprising for jobs that can be done well remotely, such... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi Delta, where very poor people live off the catfish industry, against the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
two store workers by an angry former employee at a Mississippi Walmart and a mass shooting around a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, the Company announced it would: No longer sell ammunition that could be used in military-style assault... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
vaccinated. The situation on the ground in a Mississippi town versus a school in Chicago is going to be totally different, and Secretary Cardona is spending a lot of time traveling to get a sense of those differences. Ultimately, the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
through last year, Antares had engaged 88 students in 17 projects, spanning 11 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America (in the Mississippi Delta). Teams of four to six students, evenly drawn from HBS and HSPH, take... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Nike) to illustrate the concept. Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (MBA 1986) (Simon & Schuster) Knecht tells the story of the travails of Doug Von Allmen, an investor who commissioned a 187-foot, $40 million yacht, and of the artisans and blue-collar la- borers in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
business in Fargo, North Dakota, from a culture in which “my high-school principal thought anything east of the Mississippi was communistic,” Goldberg recalls. But as it happened, the sister of a neighboring farmer was Ada Comstock, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
out of the sugar cane plantations and the cotton plantations, of blacks coming to New Orleans to find employment. The Baptist Church are swinging their hymns. There's something called ragtime that's sort of running up and down the View Details