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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
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
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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 01 Dec 1996
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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
- August 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
New Wachovia (B), The
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
On August 3, 2001, after a hotly contested proxy fight, Wachovia Corp.'s shareholders voted to merge with First Union Corp. The managers of the two banks then turned to face the challenges of integrating the two organizations. Their task was to implement a "merger of... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Problems and Challenges; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; North Carolina
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Jeremy Swinson. "New Wachovia (B), The." Harvard Business School Case 903-034, August 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- November 2011
- Case
Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster
By: William W. George
George, William W. "Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster." Harvard Business School Case 412-073, November 2011.
- 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
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Brady, who turned 42 in August, wanted to continue playing into his mid-40s, but Belichick and the Patriots were reportedly only willing to offer Brady a one-year contract. A similar case occurred with Cam Newton with the Carolina... View Details