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Lawrence A. Bossidy

Through a number of sweeping initiatives including the introduction of a total quality management program, Six Sigma, and the reduction of the workforce by 20%, Bossidy turned AlliedSignal around. When Bossidy took over AlliedSignal, the company had $12 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Elizabeth E. Boit

Boit was the first American woman to establish ownership in the textile industry. She joined forces with Charles N. Winship to establish the Winship, Boit & Company in 1888. While Winship oversaw production, Boit managed the finances and the overall administration... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Michael R. Bloomberg

Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow Jones and Reuters, Bloomberg effectively infiltrated Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Frederick H. Prince

After making a great deal of money investing in industrial ventures, Prince took an interest in stockyards, purchasing and organizing a group of small companies into the Chicago Stock Yards Company. Prince's company grew to have many assets, including hundreds of miles... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Charles E. Mitchell

Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts for individuals and pioneered personal loans to customers in... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Royal Little

Little, often referred to as “the Father of Conglomerates,” was famous for his “unrelated diversification” theory. He built one of the world’s largest and most successful conglomerates. Starting as a textile manufacturer, by the mid-1960s he had acquired nearly 70... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Paul W. Litchfield

As the president of Goodyear, Litchfield established $218 million in revenues by 1940 and a net profit of over $10 million. By this date, Goodyear distributed its products through 50,000 retail outlets and more than 400 company-owned stores. Litchfield was also... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Henry P. Kendall

Kendall was instrumental in advancing the textile industry. He emphasized basic product research and the application of scientific management to all phases of manufacturing, purchasing and sales. His company was a major supplier of textiles for a variety of industrial... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Howard D. Johnson

After securing a secret ice cream recipe for $300 in 1925, Johnson began preparing ice cream in his basement and selling it in his pharmacy. The success of the ice cream gave way to the closure of the pharmacy and the start of the distinctive orange-roofed Howard... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

Fred M. Gibbons

Gibbons was one of the early pioneers in the software development industry. While working at Hewlett-Packard, he developed the Pfs:file software suite which enabled Apple Computer users to manage a host of productivity applications. Gibbons took his company public in... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Henry S. Dennison

In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company policy, called the “Management Industrial Partner” program,... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a common understanding of... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

06 Apr 2017
News

From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing

A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just... View Details

Keywords: Donald Trump; homeland security; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

1982). Expected to open in 2018, the space will feature a flexible floor design that can accommodate up to 1,000 guests. American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault and former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick spoke at the 44th annual H.... View Details

05 May 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories... 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
Blog Post

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

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Massachusetts Boston Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities Rae Johnson , Pacifica Graduate Institute The Embodiment of Courage Mario Small , Harvard University On Power, Ambiguity, and Mentoring in the... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

programs like FSNE that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that have already begun to move the region closer to that goal. One such program is with the University of View Details

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