Massachusetts - Publications - Faculty & Research

Horace Bowker

Bowker took the helm of American Agricultural Chemical during a bleak period in America’s economy. Despite the Depression, Bowker led the company to double its profitability during the 1930’s by diversifying beyond fertilizers and into chemical products. View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Elbridge H. Stuart

In addition to maintaining Carnation’s dominance in the evaporated milk market, Elbridge H. Stuart helped Carnation achieve strong presence in other food products, including instant dry milk, nonfat dairy creamer (Coffee-Mate) and instant breakfast products. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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

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Bequest - Alumni

President and Fellows of Harvard College, a Massachusetts educational, charitable corporation, for the benefit of Harvard Business School. Benefits Costs you nothing during your lifetime Helps fulfill your financial, tax, and estate... View Details

02 May 2016
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Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services

ads and marshals the full range of human and technological resources available at HBS and beyond. Gardella joined the HBS staff in October 1997, succeeding Robert M. Armstrong (MBA '66), who moved on to the Burlington, Massachusetts... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered

broken fences and going to rodeos as he was sitting on the boards of major companies like Continental Airlines.” Donations may be made to the Memory Disorders Unit, c/o Dr. John Growden, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman St.,... View Details

Keywords: Information

01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course

Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

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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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

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