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Orlando F. Weber
Weber and an associate pooled their resources to merge several small chemical companies into one conglomerate that came be known as Allied Chemical. Weber maintained stability at the chemical company throughout the early years of the Depression and helped grow View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
you by stores, researchers, and credit agencies belongs to those companies, not to you. They in turn resell that information to others. So if our personal information is such an asset, shouldn't we benefit from our asset as well? Why... View Details
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SME research
href="http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264118263-en?nosfx=y" target="new" title="OECD report">Intellectual Assets and Innovation:The SME Dimension" includes a chapter on the impact of IP... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder... View Details
John C. Emery, Sr.
Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight business – first renting space on existing carrier routes and later developing a full line of dedicated aircraft. For almost 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. During his last ten years as CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Intel Capital, 2005 (A)
By: David B. Yoffie, Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden and Lee Rand
All companies in a technology-intensive industry must worry about the development of their ecosystems and, in particular, the availability and cost of complementary assets. One strategy for promoting complements is to invest in them directly. Explores Intel's strategy... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Assets; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Yoffie, David B., Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden, and Lee Rand. "Intel Capital, 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-408, August 2004. (Revised April 2007.)
William H. Nichols
Nichols was instrumental in the building of the chemical supply business in the United States and was one of the original founders of the American Chemical Society. Under his leadership of General Chemical, its asset base and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Hernand Behn
In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults
country, from State Street, Goldman Sachs to the federal government. And the reason we have grown to a $70 million dollar organization with 400 staff in 12 different cities is not because I’m that special or we’re that special. The reason we have grown is because those... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
their companies, they would usually invite us in.” Johnson later founded Asset Management Company in 1967, investing primarily in computer and health care concerns. His advice and counsel also have benefited his philanthropic endeavors,... View Details
- August 2010
- Teaching Note
Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
Teaching Note for 210058. View Details
- December 2008
- Case
Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?
By: William J. Bruns Jr., Sharon Bruns and Susan S. Hameling
At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007. The company president and the company controller have discussed this problem,... View Details
Keywords: International; Financial; Reporting; Standards; Inventory; Business Ethics; Assets; Valuation; Ethics; Taxation; Financial Reporting; Manufacturing Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., Sharon Bruns, and Susan S. Hameling. "Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 083-217, December 2008.
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Nicola Leahy-MacManus
Why was getting a business education important to you? Coming from a consulting background, I was keen to pursue an MBA in order to expand my skill set, particularly in the areas of finance and marketing. I felt it was the pinnacle of potential qualifications and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Erwin C. Uihlein
Though the company was not producing during Prohibition, Uihlein revived it in 1933 and began a huge wave of modernization and expansion. Spending over $100 million to build new facilities and purchase equipment, he increased the company’s View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Henry B. Spencer
business by leasing its assets out to other railroad companies. Under Spencer’s guidance, Fruit Growers’ sales grew from over $6 million in 1920 to almost $35 million in 1948. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Owen R. Cheatham
efforts, he built Georgia-Pacific into a $750 million enterprise with a $1 billion+ asset base. His company was one of the nation’s fastest growing businesses in the 1950s. View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA
45th Reunion. Ms. Paglia currently serves as a director of Enterprise Asset Management Inc.—a New York-based, privately held real estate and asset management company. In addition to her MBA from HBS, she... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
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HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case rests more in its richness as a teaching tool than in its topical appeal. "When asset... View Details