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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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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - Site Credits
Founders Library, Howard University Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Special Collections & University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst SUPPORTED BY the de Gaspé Beaubien... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse gas... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
faculty member. He leaves his wife, Dr. Edna Homa (the first woman to receive a DBA from HBS), three children, and four grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Pearson Hunt Fund at HBS, c/o Kerry Cietanno, Soldiers Field, Boston, View Details
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Andrew Dervan
management course with Peter Slavin, MD, MBA, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, that opened his eyes to new possibilities. "I was impressed that Dr. Slavin could sit at the table with both the clinical department heads and... View Details
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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
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
attracting a new generation of talented and committed innovators seeking to combine new approaches to achieving social returns. Social enterprise and impact investing, in short, look like the wave of the future.” Palandjian’s goal is to launch the first U.S. SIB in... View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Edwards taught at Rutgers University from 1972 to 2002, and in 2014 he received an honorary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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Ted Anthony
that day it became clear that the familiar style of doing things at Harvard Business School was disappearing and that the institution - along with the rest of the country - would have to adapt to a very different set of conditions. (In retirement, Ted Anthony enjoys... View Details
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Lucasz S. Babiarz
MBA can give me the skills I need to make changes." Leadership in administration At his first summer internship, Lukasz worked with Peter Slavin, MD, MBA, president of Massachusetts General Hospital. Shadowing Dr. Slavin was a lesson... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
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Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
leverages the 40+ small municipal utilities across Massachusetts to look closely at what works and what doesn’t. Pasi is optimistic: “This is a very exciting journey that we are on and it comes with challenges. We are seeing the positive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
who aspire to have an impact on business and society. Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987 Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Boston, Massachusetts Joanna M. Jacobson “A fulfilling career doesn't always follow a straight... View Details
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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Photography: Boston Photo Imaging Imaging Services, The Harvard College Library Printing: Ram Printing, Inc. Lenders to the Exhibition: Harvard Map Collection Harvard-Yenching Library Ipswich Museum Ipswich Public Library Massachusetts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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