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George Westinghouse
Westinghouse helped to revolutionize the power industry with his electric company. A prolific inventor, Westinghouse figured out a way to adapt Europe’s alternating current technology to American needs, creating two-phase adapters that... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Peter F. Hurst
In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William L. McKnight
McKnight built an industrial giant, one of the most successful, innovative, and profitable companies in American industry, whose primary success was achieved through research and development. Among 3M’s 60,000 products, its most... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
James F. Lincoln
Lincoln, as president of the world’s largest producer of welding equipment, pioneered the incentive wage system. Lincoln’s “Incentive System” rewarded workers according to their productive capacity and made the company the lowest cost producer in its field. Its... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Robert A. Pritzker
A talented engineer, Pritzker's best asset was his ability to take an ailing industrial company and turn into a highly profitable enterprise. Throughout his career, Pritzker revived about 60 companies, all of which were purchased by his... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Morton L. Mandel
Starting with $900 and an order for hard to find car parts, Mandel and his brothers built one of the largest and most highly regarded specialty parts (electronic and industrial components) suppliers in the United States. By sourcing... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Robert H. Johnson
Under Johnson, Ingersoll-Rand enjoyed growth in products as well as profitability. In his early years, the focus of the industrial products firm was to cut costs and invest in product improvement and development. As these investments paid... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Anddria Clack
business in college, I held internships across a variety of industries (including media, oil, and financial services) every summer, and held full-time positions at two Fortune 100 companies before attending HBS. The opportunity to learn... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
pilots, and The Ninety-Nines, an international group of female pilots founded by Amelia Earhart. "The industry needs more women in it," she says. "Diversity is good for everyone." (Published April 2014) View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When View Details
- November 1992 (Revised June 1994)
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Packaged Products Company: Handy-Pak Introduction
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Laura Goode
The product manager and the market research director for a new line of snacking nuts are reviewing options concerning the upcoming roll-out of the product. These options include changes in pricing, promotional plans, and salesforce incentives intended to build support... View Details
Keywords: Price; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Product Launch; Distribution; Planning; Research and Development; Sales; Salesforce Management; Alignment; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Laura Goode. "Packaged Products Company: Handy-Pak Introduction." Harvard Business School Case 593-057, November 1992. (Revised June 1994.)
- November 2014
- Teaching Note
Marketing Marijuana in Colorado
By: John A. Quelch
The case, set in the middle of 2014, reviews the first six months of marketplace activity in Colorado, following the legalization of marijuana for recreational use and the expansion of marijuana retailing from medical dispensaries to recreational stores. The case... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Innovations; Retail Government Services; Public Health; Agribusiness; Customers; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; Health; Marketing; Society; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North and Central America
- September 1992 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
MEM Company, Inc.: English Leather
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Laura Goode
In 1992, the president of MEM (a producer of personal care products, including men's fragrances) considered a redeployment of field sales efforts and changes in sales compensation policies. Any changes, moreover, must consider the context of strategic decisions... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Laura Goode. "MEM Company, Inc.: English Leather." Harvard Business School Case 593-035, September 1992. (Revised July 1994.)
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Helping management teams build companies
As founder and CEO of Providence Equity Partners, Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983) looks for good people to partner with. He attributes his firm’s remarkable results to the leaders they’ve identified and backed. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
always been intriguing to me,” says Carty, which explains his five decades in the field—starting at Air Canada, moving on to American Airlines (where he served as chairman and CEO), and including board stints with Porter Airlines, Virgin America, and Hawaiian Airlines.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- January 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why Are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?
Discusses the role of diamonds in Angola's civil war. View Details
Huang, Yasheng. "Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why Are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?" Harvard Business School Background Note 702-027, January 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo, “It’s a game-changer. Now we can go from print-to-part faster than anyone in the world.” The coin of the realm: The intricate patterns of metal stampings form the innards of component parts for a variety of manufactured products in a range of View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
pharmacists did, their cut-rate prices on popular brand-name packaged goods posed a major threat to mom-and-pop businesses like Gleason’s. So she and other traditional retailers began arguing that pineboards practiced predatory pricing,... View Details