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Charles G. Mortimer
Mortimer presided over an intensive period of growth and investment at General Foods. He dramatically expanded the company’s production capabilities and pursued acquisitions to balance the company’s product... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
William F. Laporte
Laporte grew revenues, earnings, earnings per share and dividends every year of his CEO tenure with return on equity averaging 30% from 1971 to 1981. Laporte built American Home Products through debt-free strategic acquisitions and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Marcus Loew
Loew, a pioneer in the development of nickelodeons (by 1919, he owned 100 with assets of $25 million), built a vertically integrated movie production operation. He created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a Loew’s subsidiary in 1924, which... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Reuben Mark
When Mark took over in 1984, the consumer goods giant was in the midst of trying to reinvent itself. The company had grown tremendously in the 70s through a series of less than stellar acquisitions and one of Mark’s first tasks was to sell off those subsidiaries that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
by climate change by managing resources more efficiently, pursuing new strategies in the wake of climate change, and bringing climate-ready products to market. On May 15, over 100 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
Eugene G. Grace
Grace grew Bethlehem Steel rapidly during World War I, increasing production from 1.1 million net tons of steel in 1915 to over 3.3 million tons in 1919. Growing the company through various acquisitions, Grace’s Bethlehem Steel operated... View Details
Keywords: Metals
John A. Ewald
Ewald is responsible for taking Avon public and beginning Avon’s international expansion. He is also credited with introducing the historic “Avon Calling” advertising campaign. During his CEO tenure, Ewald produced 23 years of consecutive growth and top level return on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
John A. Kimberly
Kimberly built one of the largest manufacturers of pulp and paper products in the world. His company introduced two big sellers, which are widely sold today – a sanitary napkin (“Kotex”) and a disposable handkerchief (“Kleenex”). View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate the latest technology used in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance... View Details
Charles S. Mott
Under Mott’s management, the family owned company grew into a key supplier of automobile parts for General Motors. Realizing the great future of the automobile industry, Mott changed the firm’s activity from bicycle wheel production and... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Charles E. Hires
Hires invented one of the world’s most popular soft drinks – root beer. He incorporated his company with a capitalization of $300,000, which steadily expanded into millions. He was also a pioneer in the production of condensed milk,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Seth E. Thomas, Jr.
Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his great-grandfather’s firm. In addition to introducing a line of electric clocks in 1927, Thomas also raised View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
George Eastman
Eastman invented film and the inexpensive camera, and in turn created the multi-billion dollar photography industry. Eastman acquired all the photographic paper producers in America and secured the motion picture film market for Eastman Kodak, eventually controlling 75... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles H. Steinway
Following behind his Uncle William, Charles Steinway focused on the business side of his family’s growing piano empire. Charles introduced the company’s first modern advertising campaign and personally took control of the European operations of the firm, streamlining... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Edward I. Scott
Scott capitalized on the growth of in-home bathrooms by being one of the first to produce a product that would eventually replace old newspapers and catalogs which were typically used in outhouses. Scott was also the first to place the... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry