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Melvin H. Baker
With $100,000 in capital, Baker founded the National Gypsum Company with two colleagues in 1925. When he assumed the CEO position a few years later, he led his company from a newcomer in a highly competitive field, making one product in one plant, to a diversified...
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Construction & Real Estate
John W. Brown
Brown took the helm of Stryker upon the death of its CEO (the founder’s son). In a short period of time, Stryker built the small company into a medical products powerhouse. Taking the company public in 1977, Brown oversaw phenomenal growth. Revenues increased from $23...
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Healthcare
Horace C. Wright
Wright spent 44 years with the company and led it through its transition from the small Chicago Flexible Shaft Company to its present incarnation as Sunbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, Sunbeam dramatically expanded its home appliance market through both internal...
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Fabricated Goods
Goff Smith
Spending over 35 years with Amsted, Smith led the company through a period of phenomenal growth continuing a 40-year tradition of uninterrupted dividends. During his 6 years as CEO, he doubled revenues from $450 million to $915 million and more than doubled earnings...
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Construction & Real Estate
Jesse H. Jones
Under Jones’ presidency, RFC became the nation’s largest bank and biggest single investor. It not only provided loans to established banks, but also encouraged new ventures and sought to enlarge bank capital by buying bank-preferred stock, creating a base for credit...
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Finance
Dick Griffey
Initially a co-owner of a black nightclub in Los Angeles, Griffey moved into music producing and built one of the most important black entertainment enterprises. A firm proponent of black culture and community, Griffey started a record company in a collaborative effort...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Bruce Barton
In 1919, Barton co-founded the advertising agency for which he acted as president. Barton was responsible for helping to develop a more favorable public image for United States Steel after the Steel Strike of 1919. He also created many advertising pillars including...
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Services
Bruce D. Henderson
Henderson founded one of the most influential strategy consulting organizations in the world. During its heyday, the Boston Consulting Group popularized such notions as the “experience curve” – the more a company manufactures a given product, the more efficient it...
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Services
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Metropolitan Innovation Centers
Innovation Center http://cic.us/ Boston’s Innovation District http://www.innovationdistrict.org/ Applied Sciences NYC http://www.nycedc.com/project/applied-sciences-nyc Startup Tennessee http://www.startuptn.com/ MaRs...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Wagr
a fun, social, and inclusive experience for all sports fans, not just gamblers. Frustrated by the lack of intuitive, non-predatory options for betting, Malave and Eskinazi began working on Wagr in the EC course Product Management. Status Update: Wagr launched in View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Brake cable assembly, Worcester Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Sanders, a Tennessee native who graduated from Florida A&M University with a degree in accounting. "It was great to be able to give back to an organization that could have a similar impact on someone's life." By his own account, the two...
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- April 2022
- Supplement
Connecting Students in Chattanooga (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
Keywords:
K-12 Education;
Pandemic;
COVID-19;
Accessibility;
Education;
Urban Development;
Wealth and Poverty;
Education Industry;
Tennessee
Rivkin, Jan W., and Manjari Raman. "Connecting Students in Chattanooga (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-451, April 2022.
- June 2003
- Case
Booker T. Washington High School
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
For over a decade, Principal Elsie Bailey has led a turnaround of this inner-city high school in Memphis. Although she's made progress, some problems have arisen for this "school of last resort" that deals with some of the more difficult student populations, and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Tennessee, on his firm's collaboration with East Tennessee State University, the BlueSky Tennessee Institute, a work-based accelerated computer science bachelor's program based at the insurer's corporate...
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- November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Youth Villages
By: Allen S. Grossman, Cathy Ross and William Foster
Tennessee-based nonprofit Youth Villages had an impressive record of serving emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families, with higher success rates and lower costs than most child services providers. Yet expanding to offer its services on a broader...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
Business and Government Relations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
Tennessee
Grossman, Allen S., Cathy Ross, and William Foster. "Youth Villages." Harvard Business School Case 309-007, November 2008. (Revised April 2010.)
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A) and (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 722-449 and 722-451. As this case opens, it is the spring of 2020 in Chattanooga. COVID-19 has hit, public schools have closed their buildings, remote learning has begun, and more than 28,000 schoolkids lack the high-quality Internet...
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- April 2022
- Case
Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
As COVID-19 hit and school buildings closed across America in the spring of 2020, tens of thousands of K-12 students in Chattanooga’s Hamilton County lacked the high-quality Internet service required to connect them to remote education. Bryan Johnson, superintendent...
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K-12 Education;
Pandemic;
COVID-19;
Accessibility;
Education;
Urban Development;
Wealth and Poverty;
Online Technology;
Education Industry;
Tennessee
Rivkin, Jan W., and Manjari Raman. "Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-449, April 2022.
- January 1983 (Revised February 1988)
- Case
Hospital Corp. of America (A)
By: W. Carl Kester
HCAs ratio of debt to total capital is approaching 70%, jeopardizing its single-A bond rating. Students must determine an appropriate target debt ratio for HCA in light of its growth objectives, its acquisition strategy and its changing regulatory environment.
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Situation or Environment;
Capital Structure;
Health Care and Treatment;
Borrowing and Debt;
Health Industry;
Tennessee
Kester, W. Carl. "Hospital Corp. of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 283-053, January 1983. (Revised February 1988.)