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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... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
"For most of the eighties," recalls the unflappable mother of three and wife of a college president, "I was pregnant, walking through steel mills, and buying companies." Now working with small business owners on a national scale, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
tools and sell them out of his car to support his climbing and surfing habits. Business was good for Chouinard Equipment, and soon it was the biggest supplier of climbing hardware in the country. Eventually, Chouinard realized that hammering View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
“topping off” ceremony for Klarman Hall, a new convening center being built on the southeastern corner of the HBS campus. The ceremony of raising the highest steel beam traditionally marks the halfway point of a building’s construction.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after HBS and service in the US Air Force. “We’d tell them that we were venture capitalists. When... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio, with 28,000 employees worldwide.... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making inventory profits from View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
leaders in building a stronger nation and world to ameliorate this ongoing legacy. Keep printing such thought-provoking and effective articles about issues of global social injustices. Joe Steele (MBA ’83) Craryville, NY View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
immigrant who shrewdly spotted an opportunity in the nascent steel industry and became one of the richest men in his adopted country. Carnegie's era also saw an unprecedented explosion of branded consumer goods, among them Ivory Soap,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland View Details
- 04 Dec 2009
- News
Last Look - December 2009
with ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,’ is Ruth Reiner (’91).” Stern also identifies the singers: from the left, Doug Sparks (’90), Jim Mustacchia (’91), Jay Kerness (’91), George Chung (’91), Steve Widtfeldt (’90), Berle, Chris Richied, Bernie Heine, Chris Morin (all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a “service economy,” Americans saw... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson