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    Ernest H. Volwiler

    its pharmaceutical products. He contributed to the commercialization of penicillin and sulfa drugs during World War II and produced top level financial returns for Abbott during his tenure as CEO. View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare

      Louis B. Neumiller

      Under Neumiller's "home-town-boy" leadership style, Caterpillar's revenues grew from over $100 million in 1941 to $827 million in 1963, prospering through World War II and the global post-war boom. Neumiller built the... View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

        Paul G. Hoffman

        Hoffman, the Studebaker company executive, is one of the few auto company presidents to have risen from the sales department. In the first nine-months of his tenure, sales totaled 30,194, which put the company fourth among the independent passenger car producers. By... View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

          Edward V. Rickenbacker

          Prior to purchasing Eastern in 1938, Rickenbacker had successful careers in automobile racing and the auto industry at large, in addition to his distinguished service in the United States military in World War I. Once joining Eastern... View Details
          Keywords: Transportation

            Paul W. Litchfield

            substantial expansion and investments. Under his direction, Goodyear began to experiment in the development of airplane parts and fighter aircraft, becoming one of the ten largest producers in this field during World War II. View Details
            Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

              Josiah K. Lilly

              Lilly, a trained pharmacist and the founder of the family drug manufacturer, set up the first scientific division in the company and focused on standards of manufacturing and scientific development. Among other products, the company assisted in the development of... View Details
              Keywords: Healthcare
              • 01 Jun 2000
              • News

              Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

              Jacob H. Schiff Professorship of Investment Banking. During the Korean War, Fox was an advisor to the Office of Defense Mobilization. Previously, during World War II, he had spent four years in Washington, D.C., in charge of the economic,... View Details

                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
                • Web

                Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

                during World War II and the emergence of venture capital firms after the war also fueled the growth of high-tech startups. The greater Boston area flourished into a hub of innovation; many firms would expand... View Details

                  David Packard

                  Packard and his partner Bill Hewlett created the first real Silicon Valley technology company in H-P, a diversified electronics maker. Together the two men built a strong company that survived World War II and enjoyed continued success... View Details
                  Keywords: Computers & Electronics

                    Herbert H. Dow

                    Dow Chemicals began by producing bleaching powder as its main product. Through Dow’s inventiveness, Dow Chemical expanded dramatically, especially with the discovery of many uses for brine. Dow manufactured insecticides, oxychloride for stucco, light metals, and iodine... View Details
                    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

                      Samuel M. Vauclain

                      States and its World War I allies, including Russia, France and Britain. Combining his vision for Baldwin with his support of post-war rehabilitation in Europe, Vauclain expanded Baldwin into 12 countries, allowing it to become one of the... View Details
                      Keywords: Transportation

                        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
                        • 12 Mar 2014
                        • Research & Ideas

                        Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

                        electricity and turned India into the world's largest tea producer during the nineteenth century. They built automobile industries in Latin America after World War II. And so on.   Book Excerpt Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global... View Details
                        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

                          C. Donald Dallas

                          Dallas grew Revere Copper & Brass, a merger of six brass and copper companies, into a $100 million annual business. Dallas, keen on communication, wrote a monthly letter, which was sent to the homes of all Revere employees. Following World View Details
                          Keywords: Metals

                            John P. Morgan, Jr.

                            Morgan Jr. continued his father’s methods and policies in dealing with industry, railroads, banks and other institutions and grew J. P. Morgan and Company’s business. He made his most important impact through government-financed projects during World View Details
                            Keywords: Finance

                              Ian K. MacGregor

                              Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the... View Details
                              Keywords: Metals

                                Guy W. Vaughan

                                Vaughan was instrumental in the creation of products such as the Wright Whirlwind J-6 plane, used by Charles Lindbergh, and the Wright Cyclone engine series, which were used in DC-1 aircraft. Vaughan’s real achievements, however, came during World View Details
                                Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                                  Samuel F. Hinkle

                                  Starting as a chemist with Hershey, Hinkle played a prominent role in the development of Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, Krackel, Mr. Goodbar and fortified chocolate bars issued as K, C, and D rations during World War II. As CEO, Hinkle put... View Details
                                  Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                                    Bernard F. Gimbel

                                    and Milwaukee, Gimbel ran Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Beverly Hills. During World War II, Gimbel earned huge profits on scarce consumer goods, which he had purchased earlier at low prices. View Details
                                    Keywords: Retail