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Ralph A. Hart
Hart was instrumental in taking the newly public company, Heublein, to new heights. He grew revenues five-fold (from $100 million to $500 million) and dramatically expanded Heublein’s international footprint with production facilities in... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Rob Gierkink
$400 million in revenues with participating companies that included Sainsburys, BP and American Express. LMG was sold to Group Aeroplan, a publically traded Canadian company, in December 2007 in a $750 million cash transaction. Rob was a... View Details
David Sarnoff
across the country to form one nationwide network. Sarnoff also founded the National Broadcasting Company as a subsidiary of RCA, and, while he was still a young scientist, Sarnoff helped create one of the first radio boxes, RCA’s Radiola, which earned View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
J. Richard Munro
1990, after turning down a buyout offer from Paramount. Though the company suffered losses in 1989, primarily due to the purchase of Warner, Munro’s media giant boasted strong positions in a wide array of markets and earned revenues of... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Garner A. Beckett
Through a series of four mergers, Beckett transformed his small Riverside Cement Company into the American Cement Corporation, one of the largest providers in the United States. During his tenure, the company’s revenues increased... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Scott G. McNealy
McLeod presided over a period of infrastructure investment and development for Moore. During his tenure, Moore became one of the premier providers of business forms and printing services in the United States and Canada. When he stepped down as CEO, Moore’s assets,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
James S. McDonnell
McDonnell built one of the most successful government-contracted industrial space and aircraft production businesses in the U.S. His company produced the Phantom jet fighters, the Mercury Space Capsule, and the Gemini spacecraft. In 1967, he orchestrated the merger... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Alvin G. Brush
In 1935, American Home Products purchased Brush’s company, Affiliated Products, Incorporated and installed Brush as AHP’s new CEO. Over the next thirty years, Brush presided over a massive growth and diversification plan, purchasing dozens of businesses to expand AHP’s... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807095]. View Details
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 brother Jay. These businesses... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Charles B. Wang
and business managers to achieve sound products and a culture of management that fosters brutal honesty and integrity. CA earned revenues of over $5 billion and net income of $570 million in 1998, and had the distinction of supplying... View Details
Keywords: Services
Laurence A. Tisch
the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third largest hotel operator, with assets of $278 million and View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Jean Nidetch
Nidetch’s group, a booming franchise business was born. Weight Watchers was the first organized self-help program targeted to the overweight population. By the time she sold the operation to Heinz & Company in 1978, it had revenues of... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
consumers’ evaluations, include some 425,000 homeowners. Company revenues should hit $14 million this year. “Companies don’t pay to be on the list,” Hicks told the Washington Post (July 13, 2006). “You can only give one report on a given... View Details
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.
After working in financial management for the Kennedy administration, Pratt worked his way up the executive ladder at Pfizer to become CEO. Pratt focused the company on research and development, eventually expanding Pfizer into 140 countries. During his tenure, he... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Henry W. Gadsden
Gadsden presided over a massive period of growth for Merck & Company. A strong believer in the power of research and development, he increased spending in this area four fold during his tenure – from $32 million to $125 million. Under his leadership, Merck’s View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Ray W. MacDonald
MacDonald presided over Burroughs during a dramatic growth period for the computer industry in the 1970s, and Burroughs’ products for electronic data processing and financial accounting systems were among those enjoying prosperity throughout the decade. During the 12... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
moved from Henderson’s home to a large industrial plant. Under Henderson’s leadership, HI has grown from a small basement enterprise with $20,000 in sales to a large industrial technology firm with revenues of $50 million. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Matthew S. Sloan
Sloan oversaw the rapid development of the M-K-T lines that grew in conjunction with the dynamic population explosion of the Southwest in the United States. Under his tenure, revenues increased threefold from $26 million to over $80... View Details
Keywords: Transportation