by Charles Cohen - Publications - Faculty & Research

Charles C. Spaulding

Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37 million by the time of... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Charles E. Merrill

Merrill created the main street brokerage by founding the Merrill-Lynch Company. He was the first investment banker to realize that chain stores would one day dominate retailing and handled underwriting for at least 25 retail stores (such... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Charles R. Walgreen

counter and soda fountain, things that became staples in his “super-drug stores.” Capitalizing on the popularity of these huge stores and their more interactive shopping environment, Walgreen had, by the time of his death, built almost... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Charles R. Shoemate

any U.S.-based operation. Shoemate presided over the successful spin-off of BestFoods and orchestrated its eventual, highly profitable acquisition by Unilever. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Charles R. Schwab

In spite of the disdain given to discount brokerage by larger investment houses, Schwab took advantage of SEC deregulation in 1975, and went on to build “the Kmart of the stock brokerage industry.” Though discount brokerage at Schwab’s... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2004
News

Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)

Born in East Lansing, Michigan, Charles Stoddard grew up with banking in his blood. As a teenager, he worked as a teller in the bank his father founded. After earning degrees from Michigan State University and HBS, he held banking and... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Charles H. Steinway

Following behind his Uncle William, Charles Steinway focused on the business side of his family’s growing piano empire. Charles introduced the company’s first modern advertising campaign and personally took... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Charles S. Woolworth

expansion. Though Frank Woolworth’s original one-price limit was eventually lifted, Woolworth stores continued to remain profitable under Charles Woolworth’s leadership, with stores growing to 2,000 by the... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Charles H. Revson

Known for his autocratic and direct management style, Revson built Revlon into the second largest cosmetics company in the U.S. Revson's unique talent of grasping the female psyche, bolstered by his fiercely competitive nature, allowed... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.

As a young purchasing department officer, Walgreen Jr. gained valuable management experience by overseeing a wide variety of the company’s buying operations and by creating several new lines of merchandise.... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Charles R. Walgreen III

Charles Walgreen, III continued the tradition of success begun by his father and grandfather. Under his leadership, Walgreens stores continued to expand its existing operations and also entered the... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Charles B. (Tex) Thornton

After making a name for himself at Ford and later at Hughes, Thornton left to start an electronics company. Litton Industries had its roots in electronics but the company became a huge conglomerate, operating in a wide variety of businesses, from oil drilling rigs to... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Awards

Western Finance Association. Society of Quantitative Analysts Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments

By: Lauren H. Cohen

Won the 2007 Society of Quantitative Analysts Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments from the Western Finance Association for the paper with Breno Schmidt, “Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients” (Journal of Finance, October 2009). View Details

15 Nov 2021
News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

Charles P. Waite Jr. (MBA 1983), who followed in his father’s footsteps to HBS and into venture capital; 11 grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. Learn how you too can give back by including HBS in... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

Office ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "You have to like what you are doing. Since you spend more time working than doing almost anything else, it makes a big difference if you're enjoying yourself." When Charles Rossotti became commissioner... View Details

Charles D. Marshall

Marshall and McClintic built the largest independent steel fabricating firm in the United States. Among their numerous projects were the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Waldorff Astoria Hotel. View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Charles W. Post

Having been inspired by a drink served at the Kellogg brothers’ sanitarium, Post developed an entire line of grain-based products including such famous cereal brands as Grape Nuts and Bran Flakes. Post played a pivotal role in the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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

June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton

This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details