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  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Bernard M. Baruch

    Intercontinental Rubber Company. During World War I, Baruch served as Chairman of the War Industries Board, where he helped to facilitate the military preparedness of the nation’s businesses. View Details
    Keywords: Finance

      Samuel P. Colt

      Colt organized United States Rubber into a vertically integrated business with a centralized administration. Colt also diversified United States Rubber to include non-footwear items, such as tires, which... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

        William B. Bell

        Bell diversified American Cyanamid, developing the company into the 5th largest producer of chemicals in the U.S., manufacturing over 5,000 products. Bell developed new processes for the commercial production of prussiate of soda, dycyandiamide, guanidine View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
        • Web

        Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

        HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
        • Web

        Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

        Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
        • January 2011
        • Teaching Note

        Neoprene (TN)

        By: Tom Nicholas
        Teaching Note for 810-084. View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sales; Production; Corporate Disclosure; Commercialization; Rubber Industry; United States; Germany; Russia
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        • 22 Feb 2019
        • News

        Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

        made for great teaching moments and unanticipated creativity and fun,” says Mallory, who also served as a team consultant. “For instance, after a considerable period of anemic sales of their product (neon rubber wrist bands), the Chief... View Details
        Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment
        • June 2013
        • Teaching Note

        Elasto Therm: The Next Step

        By: Jim Sharpe
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Careers; Empowerment; Job Design; Sales Channels; Sales Force Management; Pricing Strategy; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Employee Empowerment; Customer Focus; Entrepreneurship; Salesforce Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Rubber Industry; United States
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        • June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
        • Teaching Note

        B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap, The TN

        By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
        Teaching Note for (9-284-080). View Details
        Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Rubber Industry
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        • March 1988
        • Case

        Goodyear Restructuring

        Features a firm with a strong, successful, clearly-defined product market strategy. In 1982, this strategy was augmented by new management to include other, conflicting goals. This has an immediate negative impact on the stock market's evaluation of Goodyear's stock... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Rubber Industry
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        • 28 May 2019
        • News

        In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

        As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the company for... View Details
        Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management
        • Web

        Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

        President of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 1995 to 2000 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2003. Early corporate filings for Goodyear are part of Baker's corporate reports collection . Farouk Shami founded Farouk... View Details
        • 25 Feb 2020
        • News

        Beyond the Plastisphere

        bacteria, previous attempts to manufacture it at industrial scale were stymied by the need for expensive feedstocks such as sugar and seed oils. Full Cycle, however, coaxes microbes to make PHA from organic waste—banana peels, newspapers,... View Details
        Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
        • Web

        Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

        Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
        • March 2007 (Revised April 2013)
        • Teaching Note

        Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading (TN)

        By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
        Teaching note to 707494. View Details
        Keywords: Rubber Industry; United States
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        • June 2013
        • Supplement

        Elasto Therm: The Next Step (Video Supplement)

        By: Jim Sharpe
        This is the Video Supplement for Elasto Therm: The Next Step (HBS Case #813030). View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Search; Search Funds; Manufacturing; Pricing Policies; Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Sales Channels; Sales Force Management; Customer Focus; Customer Specificity; Manufacturing Tools; Acquisitions; Growth Strategy; Growth And Development Strategy; Growth; Plastics; Turnarounds; Labor Management; Stockholders; Careers; Job Design; Gender; Life Planning; Employee Empowerment; Work/family Balance; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Management; Employee Ownership; Acquisition; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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        • November 1999 (Revised November 1999)
        • Case

        Goodyear: The Aquatred Launch (Condensed)

        Goodyear is planning to launch an innovative new tire in a price sensitive and highly competitive category. The case deals with channel conflicts and management issues arising in mature product categories. View Details
        Keywords: Conflict Management; Product Launch; Auto Industry; Auto Industry
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        • 10 Nov 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: Nov. 10

        rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 14 Oct 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: October 14

          Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace