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    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
      • 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
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        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

          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
          • 2011
          • Chapter

          On The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

          By: Faaiza Rashid
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          • 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
          • 01 Apr 2002
          • News

          Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

          a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the... View Details
          Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
          • 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
          Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
          • 11 Mar 2001
          • Research & Ideas

          Group Therapy

          the United States. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing." By providing substitutes for these... View Details
          Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
          • 18 May 2022
          • News

          Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

          • 01 Oct 1999
          • News

          Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

          The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7... View Details
          Keywords: Susan Young
          • 01 Oct 2001
          • News

          New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell

          Peter Wendell In 1982, with almost a decade of experience at IBM under his belt, Peter Wendell went "searching for the country's next IBMs," as he puts it. Enlisting the help of some friends (including... View Details
          Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
          • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
          • Case

          Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

          By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
          In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
          Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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          • September 2007 (Revised April 2013)
          • Case

          Peter Welz: When a Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A)

          By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel
          Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential client. Welz's counterpart team is led by Preston Spitzer, a notoriously tough player who fully understands his side's massive advantages in... View Details
          Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Competitive Advantage
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          • September 1986
          • Supplement

          Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video

          Contains a presentation by Browning to a class of MBA students in March 1986, in which he describes how he handled the first year of his efforts to revitalize the Whitecap Division of Continental Can (1984-85). View Details
          Keywords: Restructuring
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          Peter O. Crisp papers | Baker Library

          Peter O. Crisp papers Venrock Associates Pocantico Conference attendee caricature, 1985 October 1. Peter O. Crisp papers. Peter O. Crisp was a founding partner of Venrock... View Details
          • 08 Aug 2005
          • Research & Ideas

          Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

          for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
          Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
          • 11 Sep 2000
          • Research & Ideas

          Riding the Internet Fast Track

          such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is provided View Details
          Keywords: by Peter Jacobs