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    Lammot du Pont

    Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction. duPont kept the duPont Corporation... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

      Edward G. Budd

      During the 1910s and 1920s, Budd constructed a successful business supplying car bodies, including an all-steel sedan body, to auto manufacturers such as General Motors, Studebaker, Ford and Chrysler. In the 1930s, Budd pioneered the fabrication of stainless steel.... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

        Eldridge R. Johnson

        Johnson became a leader in the phonograph industry by introducing a number of technical innovations. He established a strong reputation for quality music and implemented an extremely effective advertising program, which ensured his dominance in the industry. View Details
        Keywords: Fabricated Goods

          Jack M. Eckerd

          Eckerd introduced the self-service retailing model in his drug store operations and, in the process, built the largest drug store retail chain in the South. Eckerd was one of the firsts to recognize the potential of anchoring drug store chains next to successful... View Details
          Keywords: Retail

            Thomas C. du Pont

            duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his competitors, eliminating 64 of them. In... View Details
            Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
            • 18 Feb 2015
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            First Look: February 18

            deterrence effect. This leads to strong enforcement spillovers up the VAT chain. These findings confirm that when taking evasion into account, significant differences emerge between otherwise equivalent forms of taxation. February 2015 Harvard Business Law Review The... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 15 Aug 2017
            • First Look

            First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

            https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evolves in response to View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 03 Apr 2007
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            First Look: April 3, 2007

            important Delaware case law created a difference in the standard of judicial review for the two basic methods of freezing out minority shareholders. While a freeze-out executed as a statutory merger is subject to stringent... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 05 May 2003
            • Research & Ideas

            Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

            interests of the corporation. Contrary to popular belief, this does not mean maximizing shareholder value without regard for the effect on employees, customers, suppliers, the environment, or the communities in which the corporation does business. The courts in View Details
            Keywords: by Carla Tishler
            • February 2006 (Revised December 2009)
            • Case

            Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?

            Andrew Prihodko is forming a new venture, Pixamo, the next generation of online photo management and sharing sites. Pixamo's alpha site has generated over 1,000 users and a lot of information about registration and usage patterns. Prihodko must address a number of... View Details
            Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Delaware; Switzerland; Ukraine
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            Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

            Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into suspension cables on Delaware Memorial... View Details
            • 01 Jun 2014
            • News

            School Ties

            the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local View Details
            Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
            • 01 Apr 2014
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            First Look: April 1

              Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 11 Jun 2013
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            First Look: June 11

            well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment involving... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel
            • 25 Jul 2017
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            First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

            data on appraisal litigation and appraisal outs. I find that appraisal claims have not meaningfully declined in 2016 and that perceived appraisal risk, as measured by the incidence of appraisal outs, has increased since the Dell appraisal in May 2016. After reviewing... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel
            • 25 Apr 2017
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            First Look at New Research, April 25

            more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 09 Sep 2024
            • HBS Case

            McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

            boardroom in 2019, moved to the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2021, and ultimately led to a Securities and Exchange Commission sanction in 2023, which attracted HBS Baker Foundation Professor Lynn S. Paine to the tale. An expert on... View Details
            Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
            • 11 Apr 2017
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            First Look at New Research, April 11

            transaction but it was nevertheless approved, should T. Rowe pursue appraisal of its shares in the Delaware courts? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-089 T. Rowe... View Details
            • 26 Feb 2013
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            First Look: Feb. 26

            advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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            Marcela Sapone

            worldview. Her maternal grandparents, both intellectuals, fled Argentina in a military coup. Her mother, born in Argentina, went to high school in New Jersey and eventually met Sapone’s father there. Married with a young family, the couple moved to View Details