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Eldridge R. Johnson
Johnson became a leader in the phonograph industry by introducing a number of technical innovations. He established a strong reputation for quality music and implemented an extremely effective advertising program, which ensured his... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
R. David Thomas
A high school dropout, Thomas began his career running four Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. In 1969, he opened his first Wendy's Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas focused Wendy's successful marketing and advertising on simple, good tasting food. View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
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
Lew R. Wasserman
When Wasserman joined MCA, it was a talent agency, and he rose to the rank of president by attracting and being a strong advocate for a growing list of clients. Seeing the potential of the television industry, however, Wasserman set MCA... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 16 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Driven by Social Comparisons: How Feedback about Coworkers’ Effort Influences Individual Productivity
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 restaurant business. View Details
Keywords: Retail
Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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
Cyrus R. Smith
Praised by his employees at American, Smith led the passenger transport revolution in the airline industry. Under Smith’s guidance, American became the first airline to use the popular DC-3 planes in 1936, allowing the carrier to turn its... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
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
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion enterprise. A geologist View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
he explains, "We had our best year ever. We borrowed in US dollars and invested in Brazilian reais. It was incredible." By 1997, the once small Pactual had grown into a large institution. When his business partner wanted to expand into... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
It's the first day of class at HBS, and students introduce themselves one by one, proudly enumerating their accomplishments. Finally a young man with a long black braid rises from his seat. "I don't have much to say," he declares with... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
Walter R. Young, Jr.
allowing the company to make some strategic acquisitions, and this growth has continued throughout Young’s term. By 1996, Champion was the number two company in both the mid-size motor coach and manufactured housing industries. View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
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Angela R. Hicks Bowman
contractor. He grew frustrated by the dearth of a dependable rating service such as Unified Neighbors, an effective such resource in Indianapolis where he used to live. He decided to start a similar business in Columbus and recruited... View Details
- December 2005
- Comment
Review of "The Monetary Geography of Africa," by Paul R. Masson and Catherine Patillo
By: Laura Alfaro
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
- October 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO
By: Andre F. Perold and Gunjan D. Bhow
OpenIPO is a new mechanism for pricing and distributing initial public offerings. The system, which is based on a Dutch auction, represents an attempt by the investment bank W.R. Hambrecht + Co. to change the manner in which IPOs are underwritten. The case provides a... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Debt Securities; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Price; Information; Auctions; Agreements and Arrangements; Distribution; Internet; Netherlands
Perold, Andre F., and Gunjan D. Bhow. "W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO." Harvard Business School Case 200-019, October 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of ‘leave us alone and let us make... View Details