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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of the worst. I spent a year... View Details
Amos Hostetter, Jr.
With a few thousand dollars, Hostetter and a partner embarked on the development of a small cable company in the early sixties. Beginning with two small towns in Ohio,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in small groups within the View Details
James H. Rand, Jr.
Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Company analysis: which database to choose? Use Compustat (via WRDS) for advanced screening on financials, including... View Details
John W. Brown
Brown took the helm of Stryker upon the death of its CEO (the founder’s son). In a short period of time, Stryker built the small company into a medical products powerhouse. Taking the View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
impact investing by conducting diligence on an operating company in the Boston area that is looking to access capital for growth. The focus is supporting small businesses that have historically lacked access... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Field Studies a Win-Win
Field studies give small teams of second-year HBS students, working under faculty supervision and guidance, an opportunity to get a handle on the kinds of real-world problems that individual companies are... View Details
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Lara Hodgson
businesses because partnerships between large and small companies don’t always go so well. You get eaten. We struggle with this constantly. We don’t want to pass up great opportunities. So how do you go into... View Details
Ralph E. Ward
Ward was instrumental in transforming Chesebrough-Pond’s from a small cosmetics company into a major consumer products conglomerate. A formidable risk-taker, Ward was a master of acquiring mature, stagnant... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Value Line | Baker Library
Investment Survey Archive covering about 1,800 large-cap companies and 1,700 small and mid-cap companies. Archive coverage begins with September 7, 1997. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote... View Details
Henry R. Towne
added later. This and other techniques, many of which were the invention of Towne himself, helped make his company the leader in locking equipment, from small household locks, to bank locks, and night... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Vincent R. Shiely
Shiely continued Briggs & Stratton’s (world’ largest manufacturer of small gasoline engines) three decade long top financial performance – even during the energy crisis of the 1970’s. For 30 years, Briggs and Stratton has been a top... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp took control of his father's small printing operation and transformed it into a publishing empire. He established the American Lithographic Company in 1895 where he invented a multicolor six cylinder... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
patterns of corporate governance and finance between the early 20th century and the 1990s. To attract investors, the statutes of companies organized before 1910 often included stronger protections for small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
in North America. Most recently they scaled part of the barren, rocky Andes between Chile and Argentina. The outdoors is their shared passion and where they feel most alive. It’s also their business. In 1998 Kim and Coup cofounded GoLite, a 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... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Rob Casper
around," he says. "I would be content running a small company well and having good relationships with my employees. If you measure success by zeros in a bank account, that's going to be a sad... View Details