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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sunshine State
filling vending machines after his textile-equipment business collapsed. The younger Greene ended up making a fortune in Southern California real estate; later, his success at subprime hedging earned him the title “The Meltdown Mogul”... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WesTrek: Students Find Options in Bay Area
other student clubs as well as the School's Career Services Office and California Research Center. Representing the gamut of career options in the area, participating companies included small, private firms like software startup... View Details
Charles R. Schwab
In spite of the disdain given to discount brokerage by larger investment houses, Schwab took advantage of SEC deregulation in 1975, and went on to build “the Kmart of the stock brokerage industry.” Though discount brokerage at Schwab’s grand scale initially prevented... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Pete Rozelle
When Rozelle became NFL commissioner in 1960, the league was a loose structure of autonomous teams. Rozelle, seeing the potential for professional sports as a big business, made two very important changes: consolidation of the NFL and AFL into one league and the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Gordon E. Moore
Moore, with a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, led Intel through the development of microprocessors. Under his leadership, Intel introduced its most successful inventions, the 32 and 64-bit chips, which could handle processing tasks in a multitude of appliances. This... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Garner A. Beckett
Through a series of four mergers, Beckett transformed his small Riverside Cement Company into the American Cement Corporation, one of the largest providers in the United States. During his tenure, the company’s revenues increased dramatically – from a few million in... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Howard B. Keck
Assuming leadership of his father’s company at the age of 50, Keck focused his energies on growing the independent oil firm. He invested heavily in energy exploration and production, allowing Superior to become one of the most successful independent oil firms, with... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Ivan J. Houston
Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T. Under his tenure, Golden State... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.
Griffin co-produced and owned his own talk show - “The Merv Griffin Show,” which during the early 1980s was aired on 115 stations in the U.S. and Canada. “Wheel of Fortune,” Griffin’s most successful show, was by 1984 appearing on 181 stations and earning $92,000 per... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Lawrence M. Giannini
Giannini was head of the largest bank in the world with more than 3.6 million deposit accounts, 150,000 stockholders, and 14,000 employees. Growing Bank of America, Giannini registered an increase in total resources of $80 million and an asset base of $6 billion by the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Jack Frye
In 1935, Frye began to experiment with high-altitude flying, and by 1940, Trans-World Airlines had a fleet of Boeing Stratocruisers built to cruise at high altitude. In 1944, Frye flew from Burbank, California to Washington D.C. in a... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- Portrait Project
Zuriel Chavez
would lead them to the doorstep of a 6’5” blue-eyed 80-year-old white American World War II veteran. James P. Lapp lived alone in a small California town. Meeting “Grandpa,” as I would come to call him, would alter the course of my life.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Grana (MBA 2009) and Paul Gibbs (MBA 2011); Founded 2011 Its HelioScope software simplifies design and sales for solar systems—an energy source whose US installations doubled between 2015 and 2016. The software produced by the San Francisco–based startup, winner of the... View Details
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Hank Willis Thomas Ernest and Ruth 2015 | About
identity, history, and popular culture. He received his BFA in Photography and Africana Studies from New York University and his MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts. Ernest and Ruth is based on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
New HBSAA Members
Twelve new members will join the HBS Alumni Association Board in October for three-year stints. They are: Jessie d’E. Bourneuf (MBA ’75), Milton, Massachusetts Miro Copic (MBA ’87), San Diego, California Adolfo B. Fastlicht (MBA ’93),... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
effects. The highly publicized shortcomings of questionable efforts to deregulate are not encouraging—witness the case of the California electric power industry. It's not clear whether attempting to educate consumers about what to expect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
propositions to a new customer base. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Stay with the current target market and own it—don’t be distracted by other rabbits to chase. —Peter Anderson (MBA 1981) According to the California Department of Education,... View Details
William R. Hearst
Beginning with the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, Hearst used aggressive acquisition techniques to build a publishing empire. His acquisition of the New York Journal in 1895 set the stage for fierce competition with cross-town rival Joseph Pulitzer. Hearst's explicit... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Donald G. Fisher
Fisher opened his first store in 1969 selling exclusively Levi’s jeans. Five years later, Fisher created his own line of women’s jeans, called Gap jeans. Fisher expanded his company to include 2,300 retail stores in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the U.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Touch Down
citizen,” Gannon told San Diego’s KSWB-TV (January 8, 2011). “I got to see my own country and my own people through the eyes of other people and other countries.” As for special moments, he cited flying medical supplies into Iraq and returning to Vietnam, where he had... View Details
Keywords: world records