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Oprah G. Winfrey
Through her company, Harpo Productions, Winfrey has created a multimedia empire. Beginning as an early morning talk show host in Chicago, Winfrey parlayed this success into one of the most enduring and successful talk shows in history – “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” From...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Naomi Sims
After as short, distinguished career in modeling, Sims decided to pursue her real dreams of being an entrepreneur. An outgrowth of her modeling experiences, Naomi devoted her efforts to manufacturing “realistic” wigs for black women. Though her products met with...
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Personal Care & Home Products
William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year. By World War II, the firm was...
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Agriculture & Mining
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Natalie C. Eckford
Get mud in between my toes, dirt under my fingernails and sing the blues. As a child, my cousin and I would play all day, such that when I came home at night, my sandals and feet would be stained with the Mississippi red clay. I plan to...
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Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he took the company public in 1991,...
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William S. Farish
Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new production concepts and methods, as well as a spokesman for...
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Utilities & Energy
John H. Bryan, Jr.
When Bryan took over Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation, the company was a $2.5 billion dollar conglomerate. Bryan made significant acquisitions including the Hanes Corporation, which experienced a doubling of sales from $450 to $900 million. By...
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Food & Tobacco
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
significant within the United States, where, for example, remote workers living in Mississippi are paid about a third less than their peers in Massachusetts. This was particularly surprising for jobs that can be done well remotely, such...
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Andrew J. Higgins
Higgins originally formed his business to build motorboats, tugs and barges for lumberman and oil drillers traversing the waters of the Mississippi delta region. His innovative ship designs, which were effective in very shallow water,...
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Fabricated Goods
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
that day was shattered when the tragic killings at Jackson State prompted a new round of demonstrations on campus, including a strike by our African-American students protesting the lack of concern, nationally and at HBS, for the shootings at the View Details
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Ted Anthony
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
systematic way for students to voice their concerns,” says Moret, a soft-spoken Mississippi native. “We created a process for identifying student priorities and worked with the administration to address those concerns.” The poll, which...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
country’s poorest communities. “As executive director of Teach For America's work in Arkansas, we focus predominantly on the Mississippi Delta region of the state, which is the eastern third. It's one of the poorest regions in the entire...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi Delta, where very poor people live off the catfish industry, against the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers...
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- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
two store workers by an angry former employee at a Mississippi Walmart and a mass shooting around a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, the Company announced it would: No longer sell ammunition that could be used in military-style assault...
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Matt Thurmond
he left Mississippi State, he engaged in two formative adventures: leading his fraternity in a turnaround from near-bankruptcy to winning the "overall excellence award" on campus; and leading a group of fifty fellow students on...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Nike) to illustrate the concept. Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (MBA 1986) (Simon & Schuster) Knecht tells the story of the travails of Doug Von Allmen, an investor who commissioned a 187-foot, $40 million yacht, and of the artisans and blue-collar la- borers in...
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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
through last year, Antares had engaged 88 students in 17 projects, spanning 11 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America (in the Mississippi Delta). Teams of four to six students, evenly drawn from HBS and HSPH, take...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
out of the sugar cane plantations and the cotton plantations, of blacks coming to New Orleans to find employment. The Baptist Church are swinging their hymns. There's something called ragtime that's sort of running up and down the View Details