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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
to expand their market power through vertical and horizontal integration," Silk explains. Within the media industry, a central fact is that its many actors, from venerable big-city dailies to the hottest Internet sites, are competing for a limited pool of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
climate, customer orientation, and innovation. "Corporate culture was perceived as the prevailing set of shared values held by a firm's managers," Deshpandé explains, "qualities such as loyalty and tradition. We defined climate as the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
management is only one piece of the puzzle. I wanted to get closer to the decision making – which ultimately led me to business.” After college, Peter turned to management consulting with a two-year stint at Bain & Co in the US and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
constellation of brilliant, talented individuals, each held in place by countervailing forces that both pull inward and push outward. Executive "stars" are attracted and held to an organization by their... View Details
- Portrait Project
Peter Park
My friend Iminza is a thirty-six year old single mom living with HIV. She received a paycheck for the first time in her life six months ago by making papyrus notebooks for our handicraft business in Kenya. I had worked closely with Iminza... View Details
- Portrait Project
Peter Tynan
not the best place to try, but my hope is that by entering politics in Australia, I can effect change in the local and global system, to create opportunities to help people fulfill their dreams. Who knows whether I will meet my... View Details
Peter H. Coors
Taking the helm of the business from his father, Peter set out to re-invent the company which had been overshadowed by the political opinions and approaches of its former business leaders. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 10 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained
Peter B. Lewis
Lewis took the helm of his father’s small insurance business in the mid sixties when it was the 48th largest insurer in the nation. Over the course of the next two decades, Lewis built Progressive into one of the leading insurers in the nation – on par with State Farm... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Giannini grew Bank of America into the world’s largest bank. Three years after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Giannini’s banking operations expanded by opening its first branch in San Jose. He continued to open banks... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Peter F. Hurst
In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 18 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
- August 1974 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Peter Olafson (A)
By: John J. Gabarro
Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a cable television company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Television Entertainment; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
Gabarro, John J. "Peter Olafson (A)." Harvard Business School Case 475-025, August 1974. (Revised April 1983.)
- autumn 1992
- Book Review
Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger." Business History Review 66 (autumn 1992): 576–578.
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer goods industries... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
On The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
By: Faaiza Rashid
Rashid, Faaiza. "On The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann." In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Organization Theory: From Taylor to Today, edited by Erhard Friedberg. Paris: R&O Multimedia, 2011. Multimedia.
J. Peter Grace
Grace dramatically grew the company through massive diversification efforts. In 1950, Latin American operations brought in 60% of W.R. Grace & Company sales. Grace’s diversification efforts decreased the above percentage to only 19% View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
Venture capitalist Peter C. Wendell (MBA '76) and his partners receive some 2,500 requests to back new entrepreneurial startups each year. In selecting the handful of seedlings he believes have the potential to flower into world-changing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
Illustration by Michael White In the universe of superheroes and rock ’em, sock ’em action, a comic book tracking the adventures of “Turnaround Man” has yet to appear. If and when that happens, the most likely inspiration for such a... View Details