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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target... View Details
- Profile
Juan Pablo Moncayo
been so nice to share that and other aspects of my identity—I'm always able to be who I am." In fact, his classmates nominated JP for "My Take," a public-speaking forum in which students share their stories. "I told... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
C. Michael Harper
Through numerous acquisitions, Harper made ConAgra one of the premier food consolidators in America. He expanded its sales from $636 million in 1974 to $9 billion in 1987. Among other products, ConAgra offered frozen-food (sales increased 60% between 1979 View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Washington A. Burpee
Burpee began selling purebred fowl by mail order when he founded his own firm in 1878. Within two years, the seeds that he had included as supplements in the catalog became so popular that he fully converted his business to their sale. He searched the globe for robust... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Fowler McCormick
Under McCormick’s leadership, International Harvester became the American industry’s leading farm equipment producer, doubling sales by 1947. He was also known for creating and maintaining stable relationships with employees. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
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... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- Profile
Joe Stenger
a lot, but that woman is the most heroic person I know. What’s the best thing about your home town? Fast cars, backroads, and freedom. I grew up in a really small mining town nestled in the foothills of the... View Details
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Danny Cho
coming to HBS, I thought I'd pursue a career in the defense industry after school and this has remained unchanged. HBS has, however, helped me articulate why this is a passion of mine View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
WAC that said, “Think more, say less, and try not to smudge oil on your wrinkled WAC!” Pssst, Got Any Ideas about This War? WAC student Bruce Bockmann (MBA ’67) During our first year, my class — about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
not nearly enough are aiming to be market leaders in 2025. Foresight is a muscle that can be developed.” —Alison Sander (MBA 1986), director of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Sensing & Mining the Future, from her October 2014... View Details
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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
U.S. Steel. Full film available at: https://archive.org/details/EmpiresOfSteel Steel, Man’s Servant (1938) Produced in 35 mm technicolor and highly praised for its production quality, this documentary served as a major informational piece... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
Utah’s coal country, where three generations of Rileys have mined and where his family still lives. But Riley thinks Guzman Energy has a role to play in that transition. “I’m trying to cultivate a culture... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
From resolving a labor dispute, to orchestrating a merger, to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In a course note titled "Negotiation Analysis: Summary Framework and... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
side or the support side (equipment suppliers, startup consultants, etc.)? Over history, some of the most successful ventures were launched on the support side. (Some people who made the most money during the gold rush sold picks and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
within public companies that acquire or merge with other companies as part of a longer-term business strategy. Altogether, the researchers mined M&A activity of all public targets with a value of less than $1 billion between 1984... View Details
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Prita Kumar
connections here and there in market. It’s just incredible. But they don’t just come naturally. You have to really mine your alumni database and figure out where people are,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg