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Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that have advanced the understanding... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Paul G. Hoffman
Hoffman, the Studebaker company executive, is one of the few auto company presidents to have risen from the sales department. In the first nine-months of his tenure, sales totaled 30,194, which put the company fourth among the independent passenger car producers. By... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Henry Crown
During its first year of operation, Materials Service Corporation had sales of $218,000. Crown took over the helm shortly thereafter and grew the company until it dominated the Chicago sand and gravel market. After retiring from his presidency, the firm Crown built... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Carle C. Conway
Conway grew Continental Can to become the second largest can manufacturing company in the world, second only to American Can Company. Conway did this by acquiring nine can manufacturing companies. Over time, he operated 30 can manufacturing plants throughout the United... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies - Creating Emerging Markets
Colombia), Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School). The online conference was organized by CEM Faculty Co-Chairs Tarun Khanna and Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School). View Details
Gustavus F. Swift, Jr.
Despite the antitrust complications that had arisen during his brother Louis’ term as president, Gustavus attempted to keep the family business together, doing all he could to maintain Swift and Company’s position of leadership in the meat packing industry. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Lyle C. Roll
Under Roll’s tenure, Kellogg continued its 20 consecutive years of growth in revenues and earnings. Through strategic acquisitions of Salada and Fearn, international expansion, and new product introductions (most notably Eggo Frozen Waffles and Frosted Mini-Wheats),... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Charles W. Post
Having been inspired by a drink served at the Kellogg brothers’ sanitarium, Post developed an entire line of grain-based products including such famous cereal brands as Grape Nuts and Bran Flakes. Post played a pivotal role in the development of the cereal market, and... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Joseph M. Patterson
After a brief career in politics, which ended in disillusion, Patterson entered journalism full-time, first working at his family's newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, and then starting the New York Daily News on his own. The Daily News was Patterson's brainchild, and he... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Robert F. Bensinger
Bensinger, the last Brunswick family member to run the company, is credited with the company’s survival and prosperity. Taking the helm of the family company at the brink of the Depression, Bensinger embarked on a growth and diversification path. Under his direction,... View Details
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Fowler McCormick
Under McCormick’s leadership, International Harvester became the American industry’s leading farm equipment producer, doubling sales by 1947. He was also known for creating and maintaining stable relationships with employees. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Raymond A. Kroc
Kroc capitalized on America’s “eat on the run” society. Believing in the real profits of fast food, he bought out the McDonald brothers and developed a restaurant empire. By the 1960s, he had 228 restaurants with annual sales totaling $37 million. Kroc emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
Edward G. Gardner
Gardner began mixing hair and beauty products for blacks out of his basement during the 1940s. Around 1960, he began working for another beauty supply business and when it went bankrupt, Gardner took its customers and began producing his own line of Soft Sheen... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and produced millions of tires for... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Liberalism, 1945–1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Galambos, Louis, and Barbara Barrow Spence. The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins... View Details
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Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
States, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Images date from the 1920s to the early 1930s. Other images in the collection illustrate showrooms and the manufacture of Caterpillar machinery in plants in View Details
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois at Chicago Interventions That Work: Alternative Paths to Minimizing Workplace Gender Bias Kate Kellogg , MIT Sloan School of Management Create Relational Spaces for Transformational Change Initiatives focus on... View Details
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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois Value Threat: How Concerns With Being Seen as a Valued Group Member Affect Women's Preference For Female Candidates Leah D. Sheppard , Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia Prescriptions for... View Details
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Mifflin Company, 1918. Full text available as a networked resource. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Exhibit of Locomotives by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Illinois , May-October 1893. Philadelphia: Baldwin... View Details
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Building Sustainable Brands
Prior to attending HBS, Liz Thomas worked at Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Crossmark with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Since graduating from HBS in 2018, Liz joined General... View Details