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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • April 2017
  • Article

Private Equity and Industry Performance

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg
The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Markets; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy
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  • 01 Jan 2014
  • News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

    Pierre S. du Pont

    per month to 1 million pounds per day. duPont manufactured close to 1.5 billion pounds of military explosives during the war, and employed a high of 86,000 workers. In the process, duPont totally reorganized... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • 01 Jun 2020
    • News

    Inside Out

    example, the Building Owners and Managers Association International 2018 Office Experience Exchange Report indicates average office gross rents of $30.35 per square foot for private-sector office buildings, average utility costs of $2.14,... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
    • Web

    Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

    Amenities Shad Hall, centrally located on the school’s campus, is available to HBS employees, students, alumni and partners. Shad offers over 50 group fitness classes per week and personal trainers that provide more than 1300 training... View Details

      William B. Rayburn

      Rayburn went from service station operator to CEO in a 35-year career with Snap-On. He presided over Snap-On’s impressive growth period achieving 52% market share, becoming the world’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of small hand tools. Under his... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods

        Frank C. Ball

        In 1885, Ball Brothers Company, founded by Ball, his brother and uncle, began making glass fruit jars and caps. In 1887, they built a factory in Muncie, Indiana and converted the company into a corporation with Frank Ball as president. By the mid-1920s, Ball Brothers... View Details
        Keywords: Fabricated Goods
        • 26 Sep 2013
        • News

        Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge

        Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He... View Details
        Keywords: food insecurity; poverty; food stamps; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

          Benjamin F. Fairless

          Fairless oversaw the world’s largest iron and steel producer with total assets over $2 billion. In 1947 alone, Fairless spent $20 million per month for additions and improvements as part of a $500 million expansion initiative designed for... View Details
          Keywords: Metals

            Harry B. Cunningham

            K-Mart had overtaken Woolworth. Cunningham opened K-Mart stores at a pace of about 150 per year during his tenure. By 1980, S.S. Kresge, now renamed K-Mart Corporation, had sales of nearly $13 billion. View Details
            Keywords: Retail

              James L. Kraft

              Kraft created a multi-million dollar processed food supply company. He was instrumental in perfecting the method of preserving cheese, so that it could be stored for a longer period of time in any climate. Consumption of cheese in America View Details
              Keywords: Food & Tobacco
              • 20 Sep 2021
              • Research & Ideas

              How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

              worked 27 million delivery shifts between Feb. 1, 2019 and Aug. 1, 2020. The typical driver worked 3.4 days per week, for a total of 9.1 hours spent actively making deliveries. Drivers made an average of $187.51 during these weeks, or... View Details
              Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology
              • 18 Oct 2021
              • Blog Post

              How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

              worked 27 million delivery shifts between Feb. 1, 2019 and Aug. 1, 2020. The typical driver worked 3.4 days per week, for a total of 9.1 hours spent actively making deliveries. Drivers made an average of $187.51 during these weeks, or... View Details
              Keywords: Consumer Products
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              5.3 Annual Notice: Digital Millennium Copyright Act | MBA

              penalties. In general, anyone found liable for civil copyright infringement may be ordered to pay either actual damages or "statutory" damages affixed at not less than $750 and not more than $30,000 per work infringed. For "willful"... View Details

                Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.

                Griffin co-produced and owned his own talk show - “The Merv Griffin Show,” which during the early 1980s was aired on 115 stations in the U.S. and Canada. “Wheel of Fortune,” Griffin’s most successful show, was by 1984 appearing on 181 stations and earning $92,000 View Details
                Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

                  Joy Morton

                  Morton founded the Morton Salt Company, which became the most important firm in the salt industry under his leadership. By 1927, the company produced upwards of 600,000 tons of evaporated salt per annum and also distributed 400,000 tons... View Details
                  Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                    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. By World War II, the firm was... View Details
                    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

                      Charles F. Knight

                      produced 41 consecutive years of increased earnings and earnings per share and 42 consecutive years of increased dividends - both unparalleled among U.S. industrial manufacturers. View Details
                      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
                      • 14 Oct 2009
                      • First Look

                      First Look: October 14

                      fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues View Details
                      Keywords: Martha Lagace