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  • January 2017
  • Case

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the spinoff of Fortive Corporation. The previous day, Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation... View Details
Keywords: Danaher; Fortive; Larry Culp; Beckman Coulter; Pall; Life Sciences; Diagnostics; Environmental Operations; Water Management; Dental; Testing; Measurement; Fuel; Fleet Management; Automation; Toolmaking; Tools; Disease Management; Continuous Improvement; Toyota Production System; Divestiture; Spinoffs; Spin-off; Networks; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Engineering; Chemicals; Construction; Machinery and Machining; Profit; Revenue; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Business History; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Systems; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Measurement and Metrics; Logistics; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Wastes and Waste Processing; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Technology; Software; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Value; Valuation; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; United States; District of Columbia
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  • September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
  • Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details
Keywords: Teams; Teaming; Leadership And Managing People; Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Team Performance; Team Design; Team Leadership; Teamwork; Team Process; Team Function; Team Launch; 60/30/10 Rule; Team Boundary; Distribution Of Leadership Authority; Self-Managed Teams; Virtual Teams; Unbounded Teams; Acts Of Leadership; Execution Teams; Decision Making Teams; Creativity Teams; Team Size; Task Design; Team Timeline; Team Roles; Team Representation; Diversity; Team Familiarity; Collective Intelligence; Team Stages Of Development; Team Coaching; Performance Pressure; X-Teams; Team Focus; Interaction; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Management Systems; Management Style; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social Psychology; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Familiarity; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Projects; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Design; Interpersonal Communication; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; Asia; North and Central America; South America; Atlantic Ocean; Central Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; Oceania; West Indies
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    John L. Collyer

    In 1940, Collyer brought to market the first tire with a substantial man-made rubber content. Goodrich’s tire was 50% synthetic rubber at a time when man-made rubber was not... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

      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

        Francis B. Davis Jr.

        In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
        • 01 May 2012
        • News

        Best in Show

        Show. Parrish remembers a few things about that production, a series of sketches, namely that it included the use of rubber chickens and that he played the part of a nun. “I thought we needed something to lighten the mood,” he says. “Lots... View Details

          Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.

          Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and produced millions of tires for... View Details
          Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

            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

              Leon L. Bean

              Beginning with a self-made rubber hunting boot, Bean created a retailing giant and became one of the pioneers of the mail-order industry, introducing the first Bean’s catalog in 1914. He instilled a “customer first” culture with generous... View Details
              Keywords: Retail

                Frank A. Seiberling

                Despite being forced out of his firm during its post World War I financial troubles, Seiberling’s diligence and faith in the growth of the rubber business allowed his company to become the largest manufacturer of both carriage and... View Details
                Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                  Daniel Guggenheim

                  and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner. View Details
                  Keywords: Metals
                  • 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
                  • 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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                  • 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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                    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
                    • 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 2006 (Revised March 2007)
                    • Case

                    Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading

                    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao and Elizabeth Raabe
                    In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and legal events relevant to the tire industry. Two items caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system... View Details
                    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rubber Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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                    • Web

                    Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

                    exhibition by Claude Grahame-White. Tube Splicing Department. Hood Rubber Company, Watertown, Massachusetts Mss: 63 1924 H777 1 album, 30 photographs These images, taken in 1924, show the operations of the Hood View Details
                    • 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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