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- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details
John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- January 2011
- Supplement
Interview with John Smith, CEO, BBC Worldwide
By: John A. Quelch
In an interview conducted by Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School, October, 2007, BBC Worldwide CEO, John Smith, discusses formation of BBC Worldwide's Global Strategy Plans. View Details
Quelch, John A. "Interview with John Smith, CEO, BBC Worldwide." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 511-704, January 2011.
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
and corporate temperament.— John Deighton In November 2000, shortly after Triarc sold Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes, I posed those questions to Triarc's top executives: chairman and majority owner Nelson Peltz, CEO Mike Weinstein, and... View Details
John P. Thompson
Continuing the expansion begun by this father, John Thompson, aided by his brother Jere, grew 7-Eleven into the national business it is today. Despite a failed venture into the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
John T. Chambers
Chambers grew Cisco from a company with $1.2 billion in sales to $10 billion in sales by 1998. Chambers has grown Cisco through both acquisitions and internal development. He capitalized on the data-intensive internet revolution and... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
John E. Swearingen
Swearingen took over the inefficient Standard Oil of Indiana in 1960. He streamlined its operations and aligned its business units while expanding Standard’s exploration of both domestic and foreign oil. By the end of his tenure, he had... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- Profile
John Bracaglia
A 2+2 HBS admit, John Bracaglia spent the employment portion of his program working on projects that involved elements of machine learning, collaborating with some of the world's leading technology pioneers, including Google, on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie... View Details
John F. Dryden
In 1881, Dryden became head of the company he helped found six years prior. He grew the company from less than $4 million in receipts in 1879 to more than $17 million in receipts by 1899, and from 1 million policies in 1885 to 10 million... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details
John F. Queeny
When base-chemical shipments stopped coming from Germany during World War I, Queeny kept his company afloat by transforming it into its own raw materials producer. By the time of his death, Monsanto had... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
John P. Mackey
Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the mainstream of America through... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Profile
John Rogers
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As a non-business person by prior education and work experience and as someone with a specific career interest, I wanted to join a program that would significantly stretch my understanding... View Details
John Stuart
of diversification, purchasing pet foods companies and other household brands, the most notable of which is the Aunt Jemima line. In 1918, the firm had sales of $123 million, but by the end of Stuart’s tenure, sales reached $277 million... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John T. Underwood
Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
by bodies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They show a range of sea rise probabilities in 2050, just 30 years from now. In Boston, for example, they show a rise... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
John C. Bogle
public by selling directly to them and eliminating load fees or sales charges. Over the course of two decades, Bogle built the second largest fund company in the world. View Details
Keywords: Finance
John L. Collyer
off from its crude rubber sources. Summoned by the nation, Collyer developed and executed a program to provide the armed forces and the country with critical man-made rubber products. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace