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- June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business
Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business." Harvard Business School Case 601-081, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
company. "An executive there told me that you can't buy this kind of publicity," says Deighton. The New Rules But what does this all boil down to for companies that want to be successful in this relatively... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
how CEOs from major companies around the globe—Becton Dickinson, IKEA, Tata Group—made a positive difference for their employees, their customers, their community, and society while not neglecting profits.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
earlier. In 1607, the settlers at Jamestown arrived under the charter of the Virginia Company of London. Puritans founded View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- August 2006 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
SUN Brewing (A)
The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the rouble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN Brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Emerging Markets; India; Russia
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "SUN Brewing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-022, August 2006. (Revised June 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 17 Mar 2016
- News
The 124-Year-Old Startup
in the internet of “really big things”—think locomotives and jet engines. Attracting software engineers to a company known for making microwaves was a challenge, but the... View Details
- Web
After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
and later founded their own enterprises. 25 Augustine Heard retired from his role as active head of the company in 1844. He would never return to China. In June 1844, the firm... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
quarantine activity: Going for runs along the Charles River with Moxie, our black lab. Boston is beautiful in the spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils popping up everywhere,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
with the company to better understand water conservation. MillerCoors is working to improve water conservation at the supplier level, as more than 90 percent of water used to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
ago, and he’s now its COO. Zagat (pronounced “zuh-GAT”) worked for the company while at HBS and came up with the idea of introducing nightlife guides, which have become a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS
just yet. Two years later, after being accepted, I attended Admitted Student Welcome (ASW), which happened to coincide with the 2020 Health Care Conference. Once again, I was inspired by the Conference and... View Details
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
the agent for opium and tea trade for Jardine, Matheson & Co. during the First Opium War. (In comparison to large British houses, the Heard firm’s earnings from View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
my course is about risk mitigation. I hope they will be able to answer the following question after a term in my course: How does one use all the tools learned at HBS to successfully structure deals and... View Details
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Martin Glenn L. Martin Company, 1907–1949 Joseph A. Martino National Lead Company (NL Industries), 1947–1969 Jack C. Massey Hospital Corporation of America, 1968–1978 Thomas W. Mastin Lubrizol Corporation, 1972–1982 William G. Mather... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna