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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
life, and we need to strive for balance. Is the idea of privacy generational? Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995), Chapel Hill, North Carolina Young people don't seem to care as much about their online privacy as... View Details
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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
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 acquired several new plants and a... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Eugene M. Patterson
Though educated and trained as a lawyer, Patterson eventually joined the family business, expanding it from its tobacco equipment roots to include many other consumer products, most notably automated bowling equipment, as well as various defense industry products... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
Keywords: Finance
James B. Duke
Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of tobacco products. Duke organized... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Charles A. Cannon
Cannon pioneered a number of industry advances in cloth towel manufacturing including national consumer advertising, the Cannon trademark sewn into each towel, pastel colors, the wrapping of products in clear plastic, style shows, and matching towel ensembles. Cannon... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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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
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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
Malcolm P. McLean
McLean revolutionized the centuries-old shipping industry by developing the first safe, reliable, and cost-effective approach to transporting containerized cargo. By pioneering containerized shipping, McLean soon dominated the shipping industry becoming the largest... View Details
Keywords: Transportation