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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
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
Schinecker, CEO of Roche Diagnostics, leads a company that received the FDA’s first emergency use authorization for a commercially developed COVID-19 test on March 13. Roche now believes it can ship up to 400,000 test kits per week.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
levels of company sophistication. The index explores a country's prosperity, measured by its level of gross domestic product per capita adjusted for purchasing power. "The focus is on sustainable prosperity and on identifying the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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
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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
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
September 2005 and was about a month away from its announced plan to emerge from Chapter 11 when Whitehurst visited the campus. Observing that a key to any turnaround is identifying the problem correctly, Whitehurst explained that Delta had the lowest cost View Details
- 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
James W. Cannon
In 1898, Cannon’s mill produced the first cotton towel ever finished in the South. About 1906, Cannon built Kannapolis, the largest unincorporated town in the world, as a mill town that included schools, churches, and parks. Upon his death in 1921, Cannon had grown... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
a decade and was only active in about 30 cities. Clark saw the problem: “From a police department point of view, it was a significant and risky IT project,” he says. ShotSpotter systems cost about $250,000 per square mile to install;... View Details
William F. Laporte
Laporte grew revenues, earnings, earnings per share and dividends every year of his CEO tenure with return on equity averaging 30% from 1971 to 1981. Laporte built American Home Products through debt-free strategic acquisitions and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
avoided asking cable operators for higher subscriber fees, currently about nine cents per household per month. Instead, it is looking to boost advertising revenue. Early this year, it began rolling out new... View Details
Seth E. Thomas, Jr.
Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his great-grandfather’s firm. In addition to introducing a line of electric clocks in 1927, Thomas also raised production of its traditional... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Frank J. Fahey
Fahey created a sales organization to distribute Gillette products throughout the world. By 1917, Fahey was producing 1 million razors per year compared to just 91,000 in 1904, and had established factories in England, France, Germany and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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1.10 Cross-Registration | MBA
other family members are not eligible for cross-registration at HBS Number of Credits Permitted Per Term Cross-registrants are limited to the equivalent of 6 HBS credits per term in any combination of long... View Details
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
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average of $13–$17 View Details
Robert G. Mondavi
Starting as a small premium winery, Mondavi built one of the largest, most respected wineries in the United States, producing over 500,000 cases of quality wine varieties per year. 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
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
men, as compared with 120 men in England; and, similarly, that the Portuguese could produce a particular quantity of cloth (say, 9,000 yards) with just 90 men, as compared with 100 men in England. In other words, Portugal's productivity was 100 gallons of wine or 100... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss