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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
History IB Diploma Program History Theory of Knowledge NC Rachal Staring Durham School of the Arts Durham, NC NC Frances Starn Hillside High School Durham, NC NY John Staudt The Wheatley School Old Westbury, NY CO Kayla Steele Berthoud...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
Benson P. Shapiro
Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream looks like something straight out of a sci-fi film. The gleaming steel cylinders hanging from the ceiling, for example, are...
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- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
Steel put it, "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing wrong Get on with it and see if it works." We are often admonished to "try a lot of things and keep what works." But Harford points out that this is easier...
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by Jim Heskett
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an opening for smaller family firms like Lehman Brothers. “In an...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management...
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
fail. Furthermore, he says, industries with large sunk costs - typically, basic manufacturing operations such as steel plants - are often the ones in which the consequences of excess capacity are the most severe and enduring. "The current...
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Garry Emmons
- February 1992 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
The House of Tata
By: James E. Austin and Ashish Nanda
The case traces the evolution of the Tata group, one of the largest and highly respected Indian business houses, from its 19th century founding and early growth in diverse industries, to its response to changes in government regulation in independent India, up to its...
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Indian Economy;
International Business;
Government And Business;
Government Regulation;
Synergy;
Conglomerates;
Business Conglomerates;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Business and Government Relations;
Business History;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
India
Austin, James E., and Ashish Nanda. "The House of Tata." Harvard Business School Case 792-065, February 1992. (Revised September 2019.)
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Extension University, 1924), map no. 6. Tata Group International Businesses Tata Consultancy Services Taj Group Tata International Tata Motors Tata Steel Tata Global Beverages Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu, “House of Tata: Acquiring a...
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- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
adoption, testing the model on 15 technologies in 166 countries from 1820 to 2003. They covered major technologies related to transportation (from steamships to airplanes), telecommunication (from the telegraph to the cell phone), IT (the PC and the Internet), health...
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by Carmen Nobel
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa withstand antitrust accusations Personal and corporate tax rates cut Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to...
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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
manufacturing facility in Weirton, West Virginia,[67] made possible by the clean energy manufacturing incentives in the IRA. Weirton, a historic steel town, was chosen because of the “historic steel...
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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
And consumers are becoming less willing to pay for it in the price of GM's products. When dependency ratios become too burdensome, as in the case of Bethlehem Steel in 2001, where each worker was supporting 7.5 retirees, management is...
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by Jim Heskett
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V , 2019 Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (British-Nigerian, born 1962), Wind Sculpture (SG) V , 2019, stainless steel armature with hand painted glass reinforced polyester cast, 275 1/2 × 100 × 78 5/8 in....
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- August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
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Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group
By: Christina R. Wing, Suraj Srinivasan and Esel Çekin
This case focuses on a large Saudi Arabian industrial conglomerate and family business Zamil Group’s corporate and family governance journey. The 12 sons of the founder led and grew the group successfully after taking over from their father in 1961. The secret to their...
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Middle East;
Family Ownership;
Family-owned Business;
Saudi Arabia;
Family Business;
Governance;
Organizational Structure;
Values and Beliefs;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Bahrain
Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-009, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.)
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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
Present: The Case of U.S. STEEL, 1930–1960 The U.S. Steel photograph collection, housed in Baker Library’s Special Collections, was brought to life—and the public eye—through an exhibition, catalog, and website that launched in November....
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
by labor and farm parties and union activists. Growing political debates centered on matters of scale, and anti-trust issues became concerns not only for the railroads but in the telephone, oil, and steel industries as well. A dramatic...
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