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D. Wayne Calloway

Calloway is credited with streamlining PepsiCo’s organization, empowering its employees at all levels, and generating substantial growth. Under his leadership, Calloway organized PepsiCo into three major business units: soft drinks, snack foods, and fast food... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

J. Chadbourn Bolles

Under Bolles dynamic direction which spanned 34 years, Chadbourn grew from a small hosiery operation with $500,000 in annual sales to an international and diversified textile and apparel complex with $68 million in sales. Through strategic acquisitions and internal... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.

After a successful, but brief career in investment banking, Richard Jr. joined his father's company in 1938. Under his leadership, Reynolds Corporation expanded tremendously, buying more government plants and establishing facilities across the globe in such countries... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Rufus L. Patterson

Patterson founded American Machine as a subsidiary of American Tobacco, and retained control of the independent entity after Tobacco's break up in 1911. Under Patterson's leadership, American Machine became the world's largest maker of tobacco equipment in the world... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

James A. Gray, Jr.

Through his advertising efforts, Gray was able to return Camel to its position as the best selling cigarette brand. In 1939, Gray greatly improved R. J. Reynolds’ leaf operations by installing vacuum conditioners, which eliminated the use of sweathouses. Gray also... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Bowman Gray, Jr.

In 1954, Gray introduced Winston cigarettes, the company’s first filter-type cigarettes, and the Salem brand in 1956. By 1965, Winston had emerged as the nation’s #1 selling cigarette brand, replacing Camel, with Salem not far behind. Gray developed Whitaker Park, the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

James H. Goodnight

Goodnight created the initial SAS (statistical analysis system) application as part of his doctoral program. Though the software was initially used to analyze agricultural data, it was soon applied to a variety of business situations. Over the years, Goodnight has... View Details

Keywords: Services

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

01 Oct 1997
News

New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

Joseph L. Bower. Relatively new to her position as vice president and general manager of North Carolina/South Carolina Consumer Services at BellSouth Telecommunications, Gloria R. Cockerham enrolled in TGM... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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

15 Jun 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

or a bagel and avocado in the morning, and probably some form of shake I make with some protein mixes in there. I need to feed the monster regularly.” Big game: “When I was at Dartmouth, we played at North View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate

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

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Negotiation Game simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. The class competes as either a lender, buyer, or one of two groups of sellers, Raleigh, North Carolina... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

to $2 million to hospitals serving Medicare patients that adopted electronic medical records (EMRs). Quelch and HBS research associate Margaret L. Rodriguez released a case study in April about one organization that has ramped up its patient analytics: The View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

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Harvard Business School

Gabarro. Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America . Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. Walker, Juliet E. K. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship . Chapel Hill: University of View Details

01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

United States in order to identify key factors for successful collaboration. Three of the consortia in Corey's study - Texas-based SEMATECH and Microelectron-ics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) and Semiconductor Research Cor-poration (SRC) of View Details

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Sep 2011
News

The Spangler Effect

C.D. Spangler Construction Co., in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over time, he expanded the family’s holdings and turned around the fortunes of the Bank of North Carolina, founded by his father, which merged... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2011
Case

Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster

By: William W. George

Keywords: Energy; Industry Clusters; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; North Carolina

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November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
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Red Hat and the Linux Revolution

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

The case describes the history of the Linux operating system and the open-source movement in general. Focuses on a critical decision being made by Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux, about its future development efforts. The decision allows students to explore... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Product Development; Change Management; Research and Development; Business Processes; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; North Carolina

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