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William A. Fairburn
European counterparts. In 1915, 100% of Diamond Match’s profits came from match sales. Fairburn diversified the company so that by 1940 only 50% of Diamond Match’s revenues came from match sales. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Bernard A. Edison
Taking the helm of the family business from his father and uncle, Edison went on to lead it through its strongest period of growth and financial performance. He dramatically expanded operations, opening new designer footwear stores including Baker’s, Chandler’s, and... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
The manufacturing sector is one that encompasses many different facets including highly diversified manufacturing, aerospace and defense, transportation, and airlines. As such, students interested in the field have varied backgrounds and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
Walter R. Young, Jr.
When Young joined Champion Enterprises, the diversified housing and recreational vehicle company had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In his first six months in office, he drastically reorganized the leadership structure.... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Robert F. McDermott
diversified financial services enterprise with over $30 billion in assets. His deep commitment to customer service and concern for employee satisfaction were recognized by industry analysts who often ranked USAA as the best managed... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Roger A. Enrico
Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of its bottling business. Through these efforts, Enrico... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
Carpenter was only the second man not of the duPont name in the 145-year history of the company to have been elected president. Carpenter expanded duPont to include diversified chemical lines and grew sales to more than $650 million. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Robert A. Schoellhorn
Schoellhorn presided over ten years of record growth for Abbott Laboratories during a period when the industry was consolidating: often posting double digit increases in earnings and revenues. He diversified Abbott’s service offerings and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Adolph Coors
Golden Brewery in Golden, Colorado. His business flourished, quickly becoming the leading brewery in the western United States. He brought new innovations to the brewery business and diversified the company’s product line by offering... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Melvin H. Baker
With $100,000 in capital, Baker founded the National Gypsum Company with two colleagues in 1925. When he assumed the CEO position a few years later, he led his company from a newcomer in a highly competitive field, making one product in one plant, to a View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Frank Phillips
With his brother Lee, Frank Phillips built Phillips Petroleum into a diversified oil company whose businesses encompassed not only crude oil drilling, but also the operation of consumer filling stations and the production of such... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Paul B. Wishart
Under Wishart’s direction, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, a pioneer producer of automatic control devices, became Honeywell, Incorporated, a diversified electronics manufacturer. While putting Honeywell on a path of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity
The Initiative aims to be a vibrant center for research, collaboration, and convening. Second, the Initiative will work with HBS’s existing Case Research and Writing Group (CRG) to establish processes to diversify the protagonists in HBS... View Details
George M. Humphrey
Through a number of successful mergers and acquisitions, Humphrey dramatically expanded and diversified M. A. Hanna’s production. By the end of his tenure, the company had assets of more than $120 million, three-quarters of which was... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
of seventeen owner-managed diversified companies; 11.5 percent were customers of three agent-led focused firms; and 38.5 percent were customers of thirteen agent-led diversified companies. 22 Through the... View Details
Olive Ann M. Beech
In 1932, Beech assisted her husband in forming the Beech Aircraft Corporation, and within a short time, the company prospered and dominated the market for privately-owned small, commercial planes. Beech Aircraft was also an important defense contractor during World War... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
William M. Batten
Batten transformed JCPenney from a sleepy “Main Street” store into a diversified mass merchandiser located in shopping malls throughout suburbia. He dramatically expanded the merchandising line, introduced the Penney credit card, and... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the premier supplier of sulphur in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Jon M. Huntsman
Beginning with a packaging company, which designed the pioneering clamshell container for McDonald’s Big Mac, Huntsman grew his business into the largest privately held diversified chemical company in North America. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods