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William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 15 Apr 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Ardine Williams
The pandemic has magnified Amazon’s role as household supply line and pushed the company to quickly adjust how it does business. The retail giant has revised scores of operating processes in response to customer demand, workplace safety requirements, and public health... View Details
William M. Allen
In 1945, when Allen was appointed CEO, Boeing faced cancellation of $1.5 billion in wartime contracts. Under Allen’s leadership, Boeing kept course and later prospered. In 1952, Boeing’s B-52 was chosen by the Air Force as its... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
William L. Mellon
Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
William R. Kelly
Kelly was a pioneer in creating the temporary employment agency. During the post-war era, American industry was in great need for clerical workers and Kelly’s idea of temporary office help became extremely popular among women (accounting for 95% of his workers). View Details
Keywords: Services
- 18 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovation Network
- 04 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
William Bernbach
Bernbach catapulted the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency into national prominence with innovative and creative campaigns. Doyle Dane Bernbach broke into the front ranks of advertising agencies with successful national campaigns for Volkswagen and Avis Rent A Car... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
option grants, though not as liberal as many others. In fact, expensing options in Enron's accounts would have changed reported profits by only about 10%, whereas the change would have been around 30% for Microsoft, which has received no... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 14 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
- 02 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
- 19 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
- 30 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
Canadians by endowing the William P. Wilder (MBA 1950) Fellowship and by helping to spearhead the HBS Canadian Initiative, which provides financial assistance to admitted... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
typical lab has 20 to 40 people, led by a senior researcher (the "principal investigator''). Most people in a lab are doctoral or postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under... View Details
William G. McGowan
McGowan built a $4 billion telecommunication business that defeated the AT&T monopoly. Acting as a self-employed consultant, McGowan rescued MCI by paying off its debts and created a lean competitor to AT&T View Details
Keywords: Communications
William E. LaMothe
LaMothe enabled Kellogg to capitalize on the health food consciousness of the 80’s by introducing new products, and, in so doing, he continued Kellogg’s 41-year run of increased sales. He is credited with dramatically expanding Kellogg’s... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
William T. Grant
Grant had established a chain of 30 stores, the 25 cent-limit on merchandise was raised to one dollar. W. T. Grant Company evolved into one of the largest retailing companies in the nation. By the time of Grant’s death in 1972, the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 23 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries