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    Alanson B. Houghton

    During his presidency, Houghton tripled the size of Corning Glass. Producing about 40% of the bulbs and tubing for incandescent electric lights and 75% of the railway signal glass used in the U.S., the company became one of the largest glass producers in the industry. View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      Walter S. Gifford

      During Gifford’s presidency, AT&T experienced tremendous growth. Gifford increased operating revenue from $657 million to $2.25 billion. During Gifford’s tenure, the wire mileage of AT&T rose from 39.5 million to 113 million, and the number of Bell telephones... View Details
      Keywords: Communications
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      James Sharpe | Baker Library

      had always wanted to own his own business, however, and by 1987 he was ready. He spent months looking for an opportunity and finally found it in Extrusion Technology, Inc., a small manufacturing company in Massachusetts that provides... View Details
      • 24 Apr 2014
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      Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas

      found compatriots with Wall Street backgrounds who wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. A few years after graduation, Silbert founded the Center for Women & Enterprise, which empowers women to become economically... View Details
      • 27 Oct 2021
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      HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

      barriers to capital, with the dual goals of making profits and creating social change. Entrepreneurs of color in Massachusetts have an unmet capital demand in the order of $574 million annually, according to The Boston Foundation and... View Details
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      VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Intermountain Healthcare Joslin Diabetes Center Kaiser Permanente Maine Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Mayo Clinic MD Anderson Cancer Center Memorial Sloan... View Details

        Jeff Goldman

        outline for a program known as the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program, which three different Governors of Massachusetts have adopted as part of their plans to assist the best and... View Details

          Jeff Goldman

          outline for a program known as the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program, which three different Governors of Massachusetts have adopted as part of their plans to assist the best and... View Details
          Keywords: Legal
          • 22 Sep 2015
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          Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers

          Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from curriculum and schedules to personnel... View Details
          • 17 Jan 2020
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          A Wider Frame

          to Chester Middlebrook Pierce, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School who was the first African American to be a full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. “I tell many people that want to go into the arts that... View Details
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          Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

          connections between American and Chinese merchants. The Ipswich Museum on the North Shore of Massachusetts preserves Ipswich’s social, cultural, and architectural history, including the Federal-style Heard House, built in 1800. The... View Details
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          Transportation - Business & Environment

          2006 President and CEO, Proterra Chris Dempsey HBS MBA 2012 Director, Transportation for Massachusetts “Climate change will transform transportation. It creates opportunities for innovations that will make our cities more economically... View Details

            Harold Stanley

            Having made a name for himself at JP Morgan prior to the Banking Act of 1933, Stanley became a leader in the newly independent investment banking industry. Under Stanley’s leadership, his company gained a strong position in securities offerings, especially in the bond... View Details
            Keywords: Finance

              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 Revlon to grow from a nail polish... View Details
              Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

                Donald T. Regan

                Regan became the youngest partner at the age of 35 and worked his way up to become the chairman and CEO in 1971. Under Regan’s leadership, Merrill Lynch expanded its narrowly focused stock brokerage into a full service brokerage firm. View Details
                Keywords: Finance

                  Robert F. McDermott

                  After retiring as a USAF Brigadier General, McDermott took the helm of USAA and built one of the most successful and highly respected financial services organizations in the United States. Under his leadership, USAA was transformed from a small insurance provider with... View Details
                  Keywords: Finance

                    Irwin M. Jacobs

                    Jacobs is a pioneer in the wireless technology industry. The company that he founded, Qualcomm, developed a satellite-based communications protocol called CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access. Considered one of the fastest growing wireless technologies, CDMA became the... View Details
                    Keywords: Communications

                      Robert E. Gross

                      Gross developed the popular World War II military pursuit plane named the Lightning in the U.S. and the Hudson in Britain. Gross’ Lockheed accounted for 6% of U.S. airplane production during World War II building 19,000 planes and employing a peak of 94,000 employees... View Details
                      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                        Adolphus W. Green

                        Green was instrumental in organizing over 40 Midwestern bakeries to form the National Biscuit Company in 1898, which became the basis for the present day Nabisco. When Green organized the firm, its only product was a cracker, the Uneeda biscuit. Green introduced new... View Details
                        Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                          Albert H. Gordon

                          Gordon, with the financial assistance of Stone and Webster, acquired the venerable investment firm in 1931 when it was on the brink of collapse. Gordon helped rebuild the firm by focusing on specific niche markets including utility finance and municipal bonds. He also... View Details
                          Keywords: Finance