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James W. Cannon

In 1898, Cannon’s mill produced the first cotton towel ever finished in the South. About 1906, Cannon built Kannapolis, the largest unincorporated town in the world, as a mill town that included schools, churches, and parks. Upon his death in 1921, Cannon had grown... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

02 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

cause concern among people in other parts of the country, since it may lead to trade retaliation targeted at politically sensitive US exports such as textiles from North Carolina or oranges from Florida.... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

University of North Carolina Press, 1973). Galenson, Peter. “The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis,” Journal of Economic History 4:1 (March 1984), 1-26. Full text... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Download This

Downloading music from the Internet doesn’t kill CD sales after all, concludes a surprising new study by HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Associate Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North View Details

Keywords: file sharing; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973), viii. 8 Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990),... View Details

Barbara G. Proctor

Proctor launched the first adverting agency owned and managed by an African-American woman in 1970. She gained a strong reputation for integrity by refusing to accept assignments for objectionable products and advertising that demeaned women or African-Americans. Over... View Details

Keywords: Services

Bowman Gray

Gray developed the famous advertising slogan for Camel cigarettes: “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” An early radio advertiser, Gray sponsored the Camel Pleasure Hour in the 1930s. Gray led the campaign against Lucky Strike, which vied with Camel for the top spot in the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Profile

Curt Willener

management Curt's summer internship will take him to Greensboro, North Carolina where he will take part in Danaher's General Management Leadership Development Program. "The general management focus is... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

09 May 2013
News

Road Trip

"Sarah and her team are tenacious and we think we'll learn a lot from them." Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, North Carolina). Cofounded in 1994 by owner Oscar Wong (SBA North View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

candidates in the upcoming months, splitting its support equally between candidates for the two major parties. Barcott grew up in Rhode Island and attended the University of North Carolina on an ROTC... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

Internet2 enjoy real-time access to remote instruments. A lab at the University of Pittsburgh, for instance, handles three-dimensional brain mapping that is "piped in" to various medical schools so students and professors can conduct online research and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
News

Editor's Note

Worth the Wait HBS plans a memorable Centennial year The first centennial I remember happened in my North Carolina hometown in the late 1950s. The men grew beards, wore funny hats, and puffed on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

industry. The story of forester Ben Cone Jr. is a touchstone for ESA critics. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 29 red-cockaded woodpeckers, an endangered species, living on Cone's North View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.

Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units and expanded duPont internationally. By the end of... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

Robert L. Vann

Under Vann’s leadership, the Courier became the essential, and the only, newspaper that reported news and provided a positive showcasing of Pittsburgh’s growing black community. The paper became a very active political and community vehicle, pushing for better... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Robert L. Tillman

Shortly before Tillman took over the home improvement company, it had slipped out of its industry leading position, falling behind the newer and bigger Home Depot chain. Tillman, however, was determined to bring Lowe’s back up to the standards that had once given it... View Details

Keywords: Retail

John Merrick

Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with insurance in force totaling $26 million, making it the largest... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Richard H. Jenrette

Jenrette founded DLJ in 1959 with Harvard Business School classmates William Donaldson and Dan Lufkin. Under Jenrette’s direction, the firm concentrated on in-depth analysis for institutional investors. In the process, DLJ raised business analysis to a new level, which... View Details