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- October 1988 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
General Electric: Consumer Electronics Group
By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
Highlights the General Electric takeover of RCA and the consolidation of the two companies' consumer electronic groups. Starting first with a history of the television industry in the United States, Europe, and Japan, and then a brief discussion of the main competitors...
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Competition;
Markets;
Business Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Collis, David J., and Nancy Donohue. "General Electric: Consumer Electronics Group." Harvard Business School Case 389-048, October 1988. (Revised May 1989.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
These days it seems like many MBAs are focused on launching the next big startup. Entrepreneurship is awesome but you might call me a traditionalist. Consulting was my goal for my summer internship from the start. I have always been analytical and enjoy working on...
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Joseph D. Williams
Williams entered Warner-Lambert through a merger with Parke-Davis, where he was President and CEO. When elected president of Warner-Lambert, and later as chairman and CEO, he invested heavily in research. This investment helped Warner-Lambert to generate over $4...
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Personal Care & Home Products
Alfred C. Fuller
Fuller developed a new, unique brush for household use and employed salesmen, called independent “dealers,” to sell his brushes directly to the consumer. Fuller grew sales of his firm from $40,000 in 1910 to $12 million in 1924. By 1930, Fuller had 1,200 factory and...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
Nova Scotia native Greg Murray divides his time between a town house in Halifax’s city center and Athol Farms, a 400-acre cattle ranch on the Northumberland Strait. A longtime entrepreneur, his latest venture, the Clean Air & Water Centre, uses advanced ozone...
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- Career Coach
Laurie Matthews
Whether working with clients on their own leadership development or focusing on navigating a particular career juncture, Laurie helps her clients crack their own codes to figure out how to make the most of their professional and life choices. It’s all about finding...
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- March 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Morgan Stanley and TRAC-X: The Battle for the CDS Indexes Market
Morgan Stanley's credit derivatives business, specifically its collateralized debt obligation (CDO) business, has been hugely successful. One of its leading offerings is the TRAC-X product, jointly created and marketed by Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. However, a new...
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Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Product;
Competition;
Capital Markets;
Financial Services Industry
Chacko, George C., Vincent Dessain, Anders Sjoman, Leonie Maruani, and Kate Hao. "Morgan Stanley and TRAC-X: The Battle for the CDS Indexes Market." Harvard Business School Case 205-075, March 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide...
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Venture Capital;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Marketing Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Manufacturing Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Computer Industry;
Cambridge
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A). Harvard Business School Case 508-024, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- Profile
Bryan Guerra
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of knowledge, in deciding to enroll...
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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Reflections and learnings
And there it went – 8 weeks at Sephora, 3 weeks at Tatcha – it all just blew by so quickly. And what came of all of it? Amazing beauty products? Sure. Fantastic new friends? Absolutely. But given all the effort and agonizing that came with the internship search, surely...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 11 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: HelloFresh
Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering a variety of topics ranging from their experience working with HBS to what they want students to know. New interviews will be released throughout the year to dive into unique perspectives of...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- Career Coach
Deborah Resnick
Deborah (HBS '06) has deep expertise in consulting (breaking into consulting, navigating a career in consulting, and breaking out!), complemented by a diverse set of operational and managerial experience across Fortune 500 companies and a private-equity backed natural...
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tradecardindex - page 71 Advertising Ephemera Trade Card Index Series I and II Manufacturer, business or product Specific Product Names General product/ service type Ind. # Box # Total # of cards in Series I...
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
opportunities, a process you may be charged with contributing to immediately after graduation as product managers, consultants, designers, or members of new business or strategy teams or if developing a startup aiming for large strategic...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
With its usual flair and wit, this year’s HBS Show pitted the January and September cohorts against each other — think Jets, think Sharks — in a late March production of Up Side Story. The main characters, Tony and Maria, came from...
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Norman O. Houston
Houston presided over Golden State's period of massive growth - expanding to several states, diversifying the company's product lines, and acquiring smaller competitors. Houston was considered a pioneer of black enterprise, having...
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Finance
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002].
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