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Evelyne White

Bookalokal continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

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

20 Jul 2015
Blog Post

My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music

directly with the artists that make the music we love to listen to. The kind of companies I was targeting don’t recruit on campus, because they’re too small and don’t have a lot of funding. So I knew that it... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

10 May 2023
News

Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

plans to expand the company to other African nations; Angela Son will focus on what the clean economy transition means for the future of work; Karan Khimji cofounded 44.01, which eliminates CO2 from the atmosphere by converting it into... View Details

Keywords: Carbon capture

Joe C. Thompson, Jr.

Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the retail grocery store business... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Profile

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

John Pitcairn

Pitcairn shepherded his small plate glass company into an industry leader with a capitalization of $25 million in 1916. Pitcairn accomplished such expansion through plant acquisition and sales growth, as... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

Career Coach

Scott Renner

consulting (or both). He often discusses the tradeoffs of the two paths, and can help craft a dual search approach if needed. Scott’s experience in both large and small companies working in traditional roles... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Real Estate

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

caused a lot of uncertainty. Specific companies or business sectors would suddenly find themselves the object of very aggressive, extreme criticism, not just by administration sources, but by the president publicly, which was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2014
News

Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground

Israeli companies have pursued novel and successful growth strategies that provide valuable lessons to others. In his research, Elie Ofek, the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration, explains how these firms have... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Mahoney

People Might Think. In class recently, a classmate suggested in 30 years cars may not touch the roads when they drive, which led to a small chorus of laughter from others as if to say "that's ridiculous." In that moment, when... View Details

26 Aug 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and later as director of investment banking at Guzman & Company, was more concerned about... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Peter B. Lewis

Lewis took the helm of his father’s small insurance business in the mid sixties when it was the 48th largest insurer in the nation. Over the course of the next two decades, Lewis built Progressive into one of the leading insurers in the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Elbridge A. Stuart

After making a small fortune in the retail grocery business, Elbridge A. Stuart founded Carnation in 1899 to manufacture evaporated milk. During Stuart’s tenure, the market for evaporated milk grew tremendously, as did Carnation, which... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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