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Philip K. Wrigley
In addition to continuing the success of the chewing gum products, PK Wrigley greatly improved labor relations at the firm, instituting an “income insurance” plan, a gradual retirement program, and an extensive pension system. During View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore... View Details
Louis B. Neumiller
Under Neumiller's "home-town-boy" leadership style, Caterpillar's revenues grew from over $100 million in 1941 to $827 million in 1963, prospering through World War View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
David Packard
Packard and his partner Bill Hewlett created the first real Silicon Valley technology company in H-P, a diversified electronics maker. Together the two men built a strong company that survived World War... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Ernest H. Volwiler
its pharmaceutical products. He contributed to the commercialization of penicillin and sulfa drugs during World War II and produced top level financial returns for Abbott... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
John R. Simplot
Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Glenn L. Martin
Martin created the largest pre-World War II airplane manufacturing firm in America. He was the creative inventor of numerous airplanes mostly designed for military purposes (e.g. the famous B-10 bomber, B-26... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
the Boston Globe , and J. T. Sullivan, automotive editor and writer for the Boston Globe , solicited more than 2,000 photographs from automobile manufacturers. Companies provided images of plants, manufacturing activities, assembly lines, View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
criticisms of the camp and their suggestions for improving it. Appointed to work under the Army’s top officer, Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower immersed himself in a detailed analysis of World War View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
World War II that includes two Croix de Guerre and one Purple Heart. (Dallas Morning News, November 18, 2011) “We need to help create a new understanding of what capitalism is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep
World War II to today and reveals the broad and deep entrepreneurial ethos that has permeated many required and elective courses at the School. Cruikshank also recounts how... View Details
Charles S. Woolworth
Taking control of the family discount goods enterprise upon his brother Frank’s death, Charles Woolworth continued to expand the company. In the 1920s, Woolworth began operations in Cuba and Germany, and American operations were extended into the suburbs following the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
he has reflected upon considerably since September 11. Recalling his grandfather's legacy as a Navy chief petty officer and World War II submarine veteran honored for valor and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Schrader (MBA ’64) Alexandria, VA Torn Down by 1950 The “Last Look” photo looks very familiar. I remember it being called Harvard Way, just like the street. It was temporary housing during World War II, put... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
2011, Harvard College banned ROTC—but Harvard Business School has long recognized the synergy between military experience and business education. In fact, the Executive Education Advanced Management Program was founded in 1945 as a war... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
number of homeless Vietnam-era vets exceeds the number of personnel who died in that conflict and that more than a third of all homeless vets served in war zones. Each year, approximately five hundred thousand veterans — from View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
Business Administration (INCAE). After enlisting in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 during World War II and graduating with honors from Harvard College in 1950, Lodge began his... View Details