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- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (A) (Spreadsheet Supplement)
This is the spreadsheet supplement for HBS Case 803065, containing Exhibit 3 as an Excel document.
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Keywords:
Family-owned Business;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Entrepreneurs;
Sales Force Management;
Salesforce Management;
Operations Management;
COST Control;
Gender;
Careers;
Turnaround;
Turnarounds;
Supply Chain Management;
Restructuring;
Entrepreneurship;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Supply Chain;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
North Carolina;
United States
- August 1986 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Timken Co.
Describes the efforts of the Timken Co., a major international producer of bearings and steel, to develop an effective employee communication program. The case examines the intense international competitive atmosphere, the recent record of job losses in related...
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Hattersley, Michael E. "Timken Co." Harvard Business School Case 387-035, August 1986. (Revised May 1989.)
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
consequences for Moorjani, for the young businesses he had built, and for the future of mobility. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-055 Robert K. Steel at Wachovia...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
skills to develop its infrastructure and revive heavy industry. "Guess who's going to be in there?" he says with a smile. "The guys who were sewing garments in Hong Kong in the 1970s will now be running steel plants in China." With the...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
who’ve succumbed to the lure of guilty pleasures, to the point of being coy about acknowledging them to pollsters, will face bigger coming-out problems down the road. Sell dreams even if you have no plan to deliver. If you’ve been promising jobs in demolished View Details
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by John A. Deighton
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Auto Workers in a 1980 case that led to the voluntary restraint agreement with Japan; the bearings industry since the 1970s; and the steel sector in the 1970s and 1980s - as examples where legal intercession in support of...
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Garry Emmons
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the View Details
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April White
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work teams freedom from departmental budget...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations, moving from bicycle parts to wool blankets to stainless View Details
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Susan Young
- 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,...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
American steel producers began to lose out to foreign competition. In the Pittsburgh region, which is to steel what Detroit is to the automobile, primary metals employment dropped by three quarters in the...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
quickly enough, and the fish will feel the steel and spit out the hook.” Does it tick multiple boxes? “I love to be outside. Fly-fishing gives me something interesting and absorbing to do in some really beautiful places.” Can you do it...
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Julia Hanna;
hobbies;
balance;
meaning;
longevity;
aging;
Paper Manufacturing;
Manufacturing
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from China that we see as unfairly...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of ‘leave us alone and let us make...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808011 Tascot Ties Harvard Business School Case 808-082 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808082 Trends in the United...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
stockpile destined to supply steel plants in China. “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” Spectra AI is even smart...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
“Back then, the valley was 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 earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them...
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- December 2006 (Revised June 2013)
- Teaching Note
Union Corrugating Company (A) and (B)
By: Paul W. Marshall
Teaching Note to 803065 and 804003.
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