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    John H. MacMillan, Jr.

    During MacMillan’s presidency, the family grain business grew significantly. He invested in several large grain elevators within the United States and expanded Cargill’s operations to Europe (becoming the largest European grain company) and South America. View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • June 1987 (Revised May 1990)
    • Case

    John Deere Component Works (B)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Having installed an activity-based system, the division is now exploring the insight provided by that system. In particular, it is studying the economics of lot-size process planning and product mix management. View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Production; Business or Company Management; Planning; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Product Marketing; Management Practices and Processes; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 02 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Companies that Conquered America

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Accounting for almost 30 percent of world... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 01 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the Olympic Games are a positive... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports
    • 10 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    “Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients

    Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Why do we pay more for an orange with a Sunkist sticker?... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
    • June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
    • Compilation

    John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings

    By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
    Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details
    Keywords: History; Personal Development and Career; Economics; Theory; Macroeconomics
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    • 11 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance

    Keywords: by Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano & Bradley Staats
    • 24 May 2017
    • News

    John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

    experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry leader in... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World

    By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
    By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
    Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
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      John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

      The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S. government. The company was so successful... View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy
      • 01 Oct 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

      Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch
      • 02 Mar 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services

      Keywords: by Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, and Jonathan Zittrain
      • 25 Mar 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

      relying on $500,000 in financing provided by family members, friends, and "angel" investors, recurred in accounts of what she was trying to accomplish. "This is by far the most challenging... View Details
      Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
      • 18 Mar 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Marketing After the Recession

      Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Congratulations. Your business is surviving... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
      • 01 Oct 2001
      • News

      New Economy Notables: John Doerr

      John Doerr Photo courtesy of John Doerr The summer after his first year at HBS, armed with a master's in electrical engineering from Rice University, John Doerr moved to... View Details
      Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
      • 11 Dec 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      John Deighton, Harvard Business School

      • 09 Feb 2015
      • News

      Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

      John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) – business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary – died February 7 at age 92. During a long and lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of global... View Details
      • 23 May 2018
      • News

      John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

      and Applied Sciences, which is renamed in his honor President, Paulson & Co. Inc. John Paulson’s knack for business was evident early on. At six, he sold Charms candies on the playground in his Queens neighborhood. Buying the candy in... View Details
      Keywords: Susan Young
      • June 2009
      • Supplement

      Lenovo Chairman, Yan Yuanqing, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch at Lenovo World Headquarters, North Carolina, March 2007

      By: John A. Quelch
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      • 14 Nov 2016
      • Op-Ed

      5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

      If marketing is a profession, and I hope it is, then I suggest there are five rules that marketers should not follow in the interests of self-respect and respect for the profession. It pays to pander. No it doesn’t. It’s unethical, but also unwise, to exploit the... View Details
      Keywords: by John A. Deighton