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Scott G. McNealy
McLeod presided over a period of infrastructure investment and development for Moore. During his tenure, Moore became one of the premier providers of business forms and printing services in the United States and Canada. When he stepped down as CEO, Moore’s assets,...
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Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Banking on Success
you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said.
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Management
Robert A. Pritzker
A talented engineer, Pritzker's best asset was his ability to take an ailing industrial company and turn into a highly profitable enterprise. Throughout his career, Pritzker revived about 60 companies, all of which were purchased by his brother Jay. These businesses...
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Fabricated Goods
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour...
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Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Feb 2000
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Staying Afloat
With revenues of $600 million in 1998, the Szczecin shipyard in Poland is one of that country's most notable post-Cold War economic successes, according to an article in USA Today (November 8, 1999). The yard's turnaround is all the more...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
will have a better chance of trying to partner with them to capture as much of that revenue as possible. However, if Confi can work with students, it may be able to indirectly influence the schools to increase their annual budgets to...
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Shana Hoffman
overall power of the HBS experience,” Shana says. The courses, too, complement her plans, with The Entrepreneurial Manager proving especially helpful in its ideas for creating practical revenue models. “I just wouldn’t get this complete...
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Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.
After working in financial management for the Kennedy administration, Pratt worked his way up the executive ladder at Pfizer to become CEO. Pratt focused the company on research and development, eventually expanding Pfizer into 140 countries. During his tenure, he...
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Healthcare
Henry W. Gadsden
Gadsden presided over a massive period of growth for Merck & Company. A strong believer in the power of research and development, he increased spending in this area four fold during his tenure – from $32 million to $125 million. Under his leadership, Merck’s View Details
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Healthcare
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
Ray W. MacDonald
MacDonald presided over Burroughs during a dramatic growth period for the computer industry in the 1970s, and Burroughs’ products for electronic data processing and financial accounting systems were among those enjoying prosperity throughout the decade. During the 12...
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Computers & Electronics
Larry L. Prince
Prince continued Genuine Parts’ record 50-year history of consecutive sales and earnings increases. Through an expanding product line and strategic acquisitions, the company revenues have increased from $3 billion to over $8 billion....
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Automotive & Aerospace
Louis B. Neumiller
Under Neumiller's "home-town-boy" leadership style, Caterpillar's revenues grew from over $100 million in 1941 to $827 million in 1963, prospering through World War II and the global post-war boom. Neumiller built the...
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Construction & Real Estate
- Jul 2012
- Article
A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses
an end to foreign-income tax would encourage U.S. multinationals to keep more money at home. Any revenue lost could be offset by a small tax on noncorporate business income, which is now exempted. Closing the chasm between how income is...
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- 12 Feb 2020
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Culture Shift at Big Blue
unassailable, Jono Bacon writes in Forbes. The company’s revenues grew consistently throughout his tenure, up to and beyond Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM in 2018. “What is really interesting though is Whitehurst’s secret sauce: his deft...
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- 11 Dec 2014
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Revolutionizing digital medical records
licensed (for free) by Bushkin’s Health Record Corporation enjoy a material new revenue stream—they are paid each time they update a patient’s medical record by sending notes or test results to HRC. Searchable PDFs are then made available...
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- 16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Sales...
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- Mar 2012
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Green Rules to Drive Innovation
increasing carbon charge; this would help internalize environmental costs, drive investment in energy efficiency, encourage innovation in renewable power, and raise substantial revenues that could reduce the national debt. Second, they...
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Henry A. Roemer
Roemer assumed the presidency of Sharon Steel during the early years of the Depression when it was losing almost half a million dollars on sales of $10 million. Under his guidance and leadership, Sharon emerged as a strong player in the regional midwest steel industry....
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Metals