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Charles L. Coughlin

For 35 years Coughlin served as CEO of Briggs and Stratton – a giant manufacturer of small gasoline engines. From 1950 to 1970, Coughlin generated a return on assets performance that ranked Briggs as one of the top 50 U.S. businesses. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Edgar M. Queeny

Queeny assumed control of his father John's company with just $12 million in assets, but under his leadership, Monsanto Chemical expanded into a leading chemical manufacturer. While Queeny was chairman, the company grew to have assets of... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

George W. Merck

Merck played a pivotal role in the development of Merck & Company as a pharmaceutical research powerhouse. He created the firm’s first research division in 1933 and orchestrated the 1953 merger with Sharp and Dohme. During his tenure, Merck’s View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition

Siddharth UR, Jen Li (MBA 2025), Luke Fiorante. Play Video duration: 1:34 2025 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Aidra Health Aidra Health is bridging the urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and... View Details

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

inventors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-042.pdf Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT Authors:Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol, and Maria... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

land developments, spanning more than 60 projects, 38,000 residential units, 10,000 acres of land, and 50 million square feet of development. Grounded in a 100-year heritage of assured performance, we are operations experts with deep experience in originating, running,... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

Ambrose Monell

Monell led International Nickel through a major re-capitalization program in 1910. Through this effort, he laid the foundation for building a vertically integrated metal processing operation. Under his leadership, Monell produced a four-fold increase in earnings and... View Details

Keywords: Metals

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Company Filings and Annual Reports | Baker Library

investment decisions. Public companies of specific asset size listed in the United States (including foreign firms) must file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically. Locating Reports in Databases... View Details

09 Dec 2020
News

How to Fix America

(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

Louis S. Cates

Through acquisitions, such as the Nichols Copper Company, the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the United Verde Copper Company, Cates expanded Phelps-Dodge into an integrated operation in the copper industry. In 1930, the capital stock of Phelps-Dodge was $30... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

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 50 company in terms of return on... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

William E. Corey

Corey presided over a period of re-investment and modernization for United States Steel. During his tenure, he increased earnings over $20 million from $109 million to $131 million with an asset base of over $1.5 billion – the largest of... View Details

Keywords: Metals

31 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Stock Price Synchronicity and Material Sustainability Information

Keywords: by Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann, and George Serafeim; Accounting; Financial Services

April 2012
Case

Man Group (A)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay

The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Crisis; Decisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

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Medlin expanded the relatively small Wachovia Bank into one of the largest financial companies in the south. During his seventeen year tenure, he acquired banks in Georgia and South Carolina and grew the asset base of the company from... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Kaufman T. Keller

Under Keller’s leadership, Chrysler Corporation became second among the world’s largest auto producers (Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler). During his tenure, the firm pioneered many of the engineering advances that are standard today, including high-compression... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

Donald V. Fites

During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut costs and raise profits. Fites’... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

two new measures of bank productivity: one focused on deposit-taking productivity and one focused on asset productivity. We then use these measures to evaluate the cross-section of bank value. Both productivity measures are strongly value... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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