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    Hugh L. McColl, Jr.

    McColl joined the precursor to NationsBank in 1959 and quickly progressed through the company. As CEO, he built NationsBank into the third largest bank in the country by 1995. He did so through the accumulation of close to 50 acquisitions. Between 1995 and 1998, the... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 01 Jun 2014
    • News

    Taking the Lead in Support of HBS

    Communications Ponte Vedra Beach, FL "To me, it would seem unfair to enjoy the successes built on the foundation of my two years at HBS without supporting the School through annual and reunion gifts." —M. Edward Sellers (MBA 1975) Chairman, BlueCross BlueShield of... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

      Eugene W. Rhodes

      Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience, Rhodes embarked on a well-planned... View Details
      Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

        Martha R. Ingram

        After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram... View Details
        Keywords: Services

          Bernard M. Baruch

          Though Baruch was a very successful financier, he is best known for his four decades of service as an advisor to US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt. He helped to finance some of the leading industrial firms of his time including Texas Gulf Sulphur,... View Details
          Keywords: Finance
          • 09 Nov 2015
          • News

          Chuck (MBA 1970) and Sue Fienning

          served as a section correspondent since graduation. Raised in the Midwest by parents who believed in giving back to society, Fienning now lives in South Carolina where he serves as a senior advisor to Sumter... View Details
          • Portrait Project

          Phillip Jones

          On June 26, 2015, I remember three things: My mother held tightly to my arm, my uniform stuck to my skin, and my cousin, a leader, dedicated father, and South Carolina state senator, was dead. That June day,... View Details
          • January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
          • Case

          Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk

          By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho
          By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details
          Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Trade; Global Strategy; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Colombia
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          • 02 Mar 2018
          • Op-Ed

          Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

          likely to have broader negative consequences. If the president’s goal was to impact China, which produces over half the world’s steel and aluminum, this policy might not succeed. China is only the eleventh biggest exporter of steel to the United States. Canada, Brazil,... View Details
          Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
          • Profile

          Behrad Mahdi

          an organization. But after a year, I didn't just want to watch and learn — I wanted to do and learn." Behrad set his sights on Columbia, South Carolina where the local City Year "struggled with... View Details
          • 29 Jun 2021
          • Blog Post

          HBS Celebrates Pride Month

          makes it easier for others to come out - either as queer or as allies themselves. This year, Pride month has been extra special for me and my family. After a long COVID delay, my wife Bethany and I finally got to publicly celebrate our marriage in Greenville, View Details
          • 04 Sep 2019
          • News

          Action Plan: A New ’Cue

          tweaked the menu to pay homage to barbecue’s roots alongside more inventive options. Today, there’s hickory-smoked pulled pork with a classic South Carolina mustard sauce on the menu; but Corsello’s creative... View Details
          Keywords: April White
          • 01 Jun 2000
          • News

          Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

          do all feel home-like to me." "The grand scheme," he relates, "is to go to St. Croix right before Christmas and stay through the middle of March. Then, South Carolina until May, up to Edgewater on the Hudson... View Details
          Keywords: Deborah Blagg
          • Web

          VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

          Eye and Ear Infirmary Massachusetts General Hospital Mayo Clinic MD Anderson Cancer Center Medical University of South Carolina Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital Mirebelais Hospital, a Partners in Health... View Details
          • February 1999
          • Teaching Note

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          By: F. Warren McFarlan
          Teaching Note for (9-398-091). View Details
          Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina
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          • February 1995
          • Teaching Note

          Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc. (TN)

          By: Timothy A. Luehrman
          Teaching Note for (9-292-123). View Details
          Keywords: South Carolina
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          • 03 Sep 2013
          • First Look

          First Look: September 3

          Initiative "The New Carolina Initiative" explores the process of fostering competitiveness in the subnational region, South Carolina, one of the poorest states in the United States. The case has... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • Web

          Harvard Business School

          Postwar America . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. Ingham, John N. African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. Lambert, Lillian Lincoln. The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated View Details
          • 18 Aug 2017
          • Op-Ed

          Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

          of America’s leading CEOs, Merck’s Ken Frazier, who grew up in inner-city Philadelphia and whose grandfather was a South Carolina slave born before the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Frazier was deeply... View Details
          Keywords: by Bill George
          • 16 Nov 2017
          • News

          The Business of Social Justice

          trip to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia because their daughters, ages nine and six, have never been to Asia. Born in Pennsylvania, Brooks was raised in Arizona by her mom, a teacher and school administrator, and dad, an IT professional. The family moved to... View Details
          Keywords: Jennifer Myers