Entrepreneurship - Jim Southern 1. There are many personal and professional factors that created the opportunity for Jim Southern: a) Graduating from Harvard Business School with MBA degree helped Jim in gaining extensive business knowledge and wide networking opportunities. As mentioned in the case, Jim was helped by his professor Tom Silver to meet John O'Leary, chairman and CEO of American Printing, Inc. b) Jim showed interest in the industries that were similar to his professional expertise like insurance, acquisition, management and manufacturing. c) Jim commissioned $30,000 to Nova Corporation from his pocket for company search which can also be termed as a factor for crating opportunity. d) Jim was aware since the start about his interest of business.
Dr. Miller and his wife called their new business “Quest for Camelot.” In 1967 Dr. Miller earned his Ph.D. from Illinois University in Clinical Psychology where he specialized in assessment. Several years later Dr. Miller was working as a consultant to the court system. He was the first to run the federally
His parents, Luther and Maud Powell, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica. He went to school in New York City, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958. He later earned a Master of Business Administration degree from The George Washington University. This was only the start of his life since he later has been in many influential governmental positions. He was extremely successful in life since he went from the streets of Harlem to a former significant chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highly respected military roles.
Viet D. Dinh I was interested in Mr. Viet D Dinh when a family member of mine, told me about how he worked for our 43rd President George W Bush. From humble beginnings, to drafting the most important policies of our nation in the new century, he has made a tremendous contribution to the operations of our government; changes whose affects have yet to be fully absorbed. Mr. Dinh was born on 22 February, 1968 and attended Fullerton High School. He was accepted to Harvard University and earned a B.A. in Government Economics in 1990.
Introduction Bouleau & Huntley, a pension fund auditing firm, was founded by Robert Bouleau and William Huntley in 1923. Bouleau was an actuary, who assessed risk based on calculating financial values to select the appropriate pension investments for business clients. Huntley was an insurance executive, who recognized the rapidly expanding pension fund market due to the fact that many American corporations were forming pension funds for their employees. So Bouleau & Huntley formed a partnership and their work began. It wasn’t long before the business took off and within a ten year period they were the leader in their field.
The number of shareholders jumped from 437 in 1973 to more than 50,000 in 1995. The management implemented a form of divisionalization in 1985, by splitting the company into three divisions – home automation, factory automation, and information Technology. By
Fasteners for Retail In summary the case fasteners for retail is a case about a company founded by Gerry Conway in 1962 as Gerry and associates and later renamed fasteners for retail the company was a provider for global retail chain after the company was renamed they focused mainly on display accessories and fasteners within the point of purchase industry and it was being very successful with sales doubling every 5 years since 1980. Their products included the signs, displays, devices, & structures that are used to merchandise services or products in retail stores. The company had two main products, which were the shipflat literature holder and the super grip sign holder. The shipflat literature holder was unique because it shipped flat and was set up at the point of use eliminating breakage, reduced inventory and shipping costs. This product was the reason for the alliance between the company and Citibank, which enhanced the company’s credibility and market share.
Milosevic went to study law at the University of Belgrade Law School, where he became head of the ideology of the committee of the Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKJ). While at the university, he befriended Ivan Stambolic, whose uncle Petar Stambolic had been a president of Serbian Executive Council. (FGC) After graduating from the University in 1966, Milosevic became an economic adviser to the Mayor of Belgrade. Five years later, he married Mirjana Markovic, which he had known since childhood. In 1968, Milosevic gain employment in the Tehnogas Company and became its chairman in 1973.
Shang-wa’s CEO, John Lin, has been in the business since 1969. He entered into an exclusive contract with Lester (that is renewed annually) where Lester can sell Shang-wa capacitors in the United States as long as Lester has an annual purchase of $1 million wholesale. The partnership has been successful for many years. Two other manufacturers have been trying to acquire these firms. Transnational Electronics Corporation (TEC) has been after Shang-wa and Avral Electronics has been after Lester.
The primary shareholders of ASIMCO were Trust Company West, Morgan Stanley—Dean Witter Reynolds and senior management. The senior management team consisted of the following people: Jack Perkowski (Chairman and CEO)—a former investment chief at Paine Webber (New York City) and graduate of both Yale University (cum laude) and the Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar). Tim Clissold (President)—a physics graduate from Cambridge University who turned accountant with Arthur Anderson in the 1980s. Clissold had worked in England, Australia, China and Hong Kong for Anderson before entering London’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies where he became fluent in both spoken and written Mandarin. Michael Cronin (Chief Investment and Financial Officer)—also worked as an accountant for Arthur Anderson throughout the 1980s in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong.