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John M. Franklin
Franklin served as the CEO for United States Lines both prior to and after World War II. Under his leadership, United States Lines grew from a small, breakeven $18 million operation to a $100 million+ business generating close to $10 million in earnings.
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Transportation
Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.
Recognizing the potential of the home market, Decker virtually invented the “do-it-yourself” business by developing cordless tools in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. He moved the family company from a 100% focus on business-to-business tools to one focused on the...
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Fabricated Goods
Joshua S. Cosden
Known as the “prince of petroleum,” Cosden is credited with establishing Oklahoma as a major oil producing state. Starting with a small parcel of land, he built a $35 million oil business in ten short years. Through his oil discoveries and exploration, he almost...
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Utilities & Energy
Edward W. Carter
Carter developed the first suburban shopping center in 1947 in Los Angeles and popularized regional chain stores. Carter started with three regional stores in Los Angeles in 1946, and by 1980, had grown that number to 47. Carter expanded the company nationally through...
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Retail
Christopher J. Perry
Because of the firm’s bankruptcy, Perry lost his job as head of the “Colored Department” of a major Philadelphia newspaper, but went on to start his own paper just a few months later. With its first issue coming out in 1884, the Philadelphia Tribune became the largest...
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Publishing & Print Media
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his purchase of Beatrice Food Company, he netted the largest offshore...
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Finance
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Mike Anders
“When will you have a girlfriend?” My Lebanese grandmother asked me for the 100th time. “I don’t know ” I laughed and quickly changed the subject. See the thing is, I won’t ever have a girlfriend because I’m gay. I grew up in suburban View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Do You Feel Lucky?
Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979) fields questions on why the jackpot is so big, changes in the lottery world, and what you should do if you’re the one holding the lucky ticket. Watch here:...
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Solomon D. Warfield
Long before he became president of Seaboard, Warfield played a large role in its early 1900s expansion phase as one of its directors and investors. Warfield and his partners expanded the line from its base Virginia-North Carolina route into Florida, Alabama, Georgia,...
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Transportation
James W. Rouse
A visionary in the real estate world, Rouse was famous for planning and revitalizing suburban and urban areas. Rouse created the "festival marketplace" concept in cities and the indoor mall in suburbs. Beginning with Boston's Quincy Market, Rouse repeated his...
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Construction & Real Estate
Thomas B. McCabe
McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. By his retirement from the Board in 1980, Scott Paper...
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Wood, Paper & Forestry
Frank J. Fahey
Fahey created a sales organization to distribute Gillette products throughout the world. By 1917, Fahey was producing 1 million razors per year compared to just 91,000 in 1904, and had established factories in England, France, Germany and Canada. Fahey created the...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
New HBSAA Board Members
Flavia B. Almeida (MBA '94) São Paulo, Brazil Principal McKinsey & Company David L. Anderson (MBA '68) Palo Alto, California Managing Director and General Partner Sutter Hill Ventures Eve S. Benton (MBA '71) Bethesda, Maryland Cochairman...
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Andrew O’Brien | About
of Maryland and is a recent graduate of the HBS Advance Management Program (AMP). Andy is a strong supporter of Veterans’ causes and is currently the Chairman of the Board of the New England Center and Home for Veterans.
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former...
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- February 1998 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Meadowlands
By: Arthur I Segel and William J. Poorvu
In February 1998, developers Ted Leonard and Charlie Sexton are attempting to acquire and develop a large multifamily site in Maryland, north of Washington, D.C. They are attempting to win financing and government approvals to develop a new kind of product for the...
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Segel, Arthur I., and William J. Poorvu. "Meadowlands." Harvard Business School Case 898-074, February 1998. (Revised November 2002.)
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
Maryland and nationally, through the National Park Foundation. Her goal is to transform science education by getting students into the field to experience science directly. Professor Michael Toffel is faculty chair of the HBS Business and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
among many other physical factors. “It’s an awesome job,” says Virts, a native of Maryland whose parents both worked at Goddard Space Flight Center. “Mondays are still Mondays, but there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing.” Best view of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
helpful as I built my own business." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Board of Directors, HBS African-American Alumni Association Board of Visitors, Howard University School of Business Former Director, University of Maryland Foundation, Greater...
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- November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (A)
By: Paul W. Marshall and Andrew Goldin
Jody Leleck has been appointed the principal of Broad Acres Middle School in Montgomery County, Maryland. The school is underperforming all other schools in the district, and she has been asked to improve the performance.
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Education;
Middle School Education;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Performance Productivity;
Education Industry;
Maryland
Marshall, Paul W., and Andrew Goldin. "Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-042, November 2009. (Revised June 2012.)