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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
rising importance of selling within corporations was the fact that something like one-quarter of the chief executives of the top 200 industrial firms in 1917 had spent part, or all, of their career in selling. Arthur Vining Davis, who had figured out a way to sell...
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by Laura Linard
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Trash to treasure: How one CEO is disrupting a legacy industry to save the planet - Blog - Business in Global Society
insulation for buildings. And thrown-away electricity cables can be converted into low-carbon copper and aluminum for future use, reducing demand to pull them from the earth. And gypsum waste can be re-used and turned into new plaster...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production Company 1988 Completes summer...
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Richard S. Reynolds
Believing that aluminum was the metal of the future, R. S. Reynolds devoted his metal company’s efforts to its production, despite slow growth of the product in the 1910s. However, because of Reynolds’ foresight, the company flourished...
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Arthur V. Davis
Davis was at Alcoa when Charles Hall invented the process for producing commercial aluminum. While Davis was head of Alcoa, the company continued to discover new uses for aluminum, most notably in the field of aviation. Davis manufactured and sold View Details
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Frederick L. Maytag
As the founder of the Maytag Company, Maytag was renowned for his financial reliability and technical innovation. The company introduced several models of washing machines with great success, including the Gyrofoam model which combined an View Details
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Fabricated Goods
Henry J. Kaiser
the first integrated steel mill on the West Coast and a major aluminum company. His most enduring achievements were the employee health plan and 19 hospitals he established, which were the first health maintenance organizations in the...
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Construction & Real Estate
Paul H. O'Neill
Not only did O'Neill lead Alcoa to become the world's largest aluminum conglomerate, he gave the company a solid image of integrity, emphasizing life-long learning by all employees, and making occupational safety and environmental...
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Metals
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Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About
initial series, Holzer printed the statements on electronic signs and aluminum plaques; later she had the texts etched into stone benches. Holzer has had exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
In the light and airy fourth-grade classroom at the Bowman public school in Lexington, Massachusetts, the desks are clustered back-to-back in groups of five, forming a series of islands. In one corner, a large spider web made of aluminum...
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Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
focuses on six worldwide corporate brands, including Nestlé, Nescafé, Nestea, Buitoni, Maggi, and Friskies, which are complemented by regional brands such as Stouffer's and Crosse & Blackwell. After graduating from HBS, Corti took a job as a corporate planner at Kaiser...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer announced that it would no longer...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
with the first test flight not even scheduled until May 2008. In addition to being built from composite materials rather than aluminum and, therefore, more fuel efficient, the plane's design includes many in-cabin innovations—including...
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United State Steel Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, The Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Koppers Company, Dravo Corporation. (Pittsburgh: University of...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
subject is a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged by a seventeen-year civil war that claimed 700,000 lives and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable...
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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
with case studies on projects in Venezuela, Kuwait, China, and Thailand, among others. For example, Esty and research associate Fuaad A. Qureshi coauthored a case on a $1.4- billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal...
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
the US, for example, travel and creation of intellectual property provide massive positive trade balances. Innovation, and the intellectual property that it creates, provide the lifeblood for the world’s centers of creativity. Regulating trade in manufactured goods...
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.Henderer, Frederic Rhodes. A Comparative Study of the Public Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United States Steel Corporation,...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
next-generation robot, a little humanoid named QRIO. Mac Mini. Moments after Apple unveiled its $499 Mac Mini in January 2005, the Internet was buzzing with speculation about just what the new computer was for. Sold without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard, the Mini was a...
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by Youngme Moon