Mississippi - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 1997
Case

Great Mississippi Flood of 1993

By: David A. Moss and Julie Rosenbaum

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Mississippi

28 Feb 2020

Peek Program Chat at the University of Mississippi

Join this informal chat to hear directly from a past Peek participant and learn more about the residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details

February 2018
Case

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama

The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Development Economics; Change; Leadership; Success; Mississippi

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03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

actually think that's right. I think that one of the reasons why I am so proud of myself is not just because I escaped apartheid Mississippi and was able to get an education and become successful in life. It's because I have paid... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

accounting techniques is partly due to a Mississippi planter and accountant named Thomas Affleck, who developed account books for plantation owners that allowed them to make sophisticated calculations and measure productivity in a... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one saw him go back to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

States The Institute has developed research-based economic agendas for all 50 United States. Alabama Alaska Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

U.S. History, British Literature VA Karen Maiuri Battlefield High School Battlefield High School, VA MS Vickie Malone Mississippi School of the Arts Brookhaven, MS PA Michael Mander Constitution High School Philadelphia, PA Subjects: US... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

former CEO, Paul O'Neill, now Secretary of the Treasury (not your typical retirement, eh?) and now with the backing of Alain Belda, the company's current head. There have been some really inspirational early results in places as disparate as Hernando, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

change isn't easy, but you don't have to be omniscient to pull it off, Garvin insists. Like a 19th-century Mississippi riverboat captain steering his boat from one bend in the river to the next, you just need to rely on point-to-point... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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Natalie C. Eckford

Get mud in between my toes, dirt under my fingernails and sing the blues. As a child, my cousin and I would play all day, such that when I came home at night, my sandals and feet would be stained with the Mississippi red clay. I plan to... View Details

Frederick W. Smith

Capitalizing upon an idea that came to him while in college, Smith and his company have single handedly built and dominated the overnight delivery industry. Though the idea was slow growing at first, FedEx lost $29 million in its first two years, the need for FedEx’s... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Abe Plough

In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a multinational corporation producing such... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Earl B. Dickerson

In his first few years as CEO, Dickerson devoted his energies to changing the policy focus from industrial to ordinary life polices and to increasing the quality and number of the company’s agents. Dickerson also expanded the firm through 5 acquisitions, which spread... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Robert L. Johnson

Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he took the company public in 1991,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

William S. Farish

Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new production concepts and methods, as well as a spokesman for... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

John H. Bryan, Jr.

When Bryan took over Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation, the company was a $2.5 billion dollar conglomerate. Bryan made significant acquisitions including the Hanes Corporation, which experienced a doubling of sales from $450 to $900 million. By... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Oprah G. Winfrey

Through her company, Harpo Productions, Winfrey has created a multimedia empire. Beginning as an early morning talk show host in Chicago, Winfrey parlayed this success into one of the most enduring and successful talk shows in history – “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” From... View Details