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01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

discs) Restaurants (grocer's takeout) Steel production (minimills) Telephone-long distance (Internet telephony) Are some industries more vulnerable to this threat than others? There are some industries, or at least parts of them, that I... View Details

30 May 2018
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Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

the US, for example, travel and creation of intellectual property provide massive positive trade balances. Innovation, and the intellectual property that it creates, provide the lifeblood for the world’s centers of creativity. Regulating trade in manufactured goods... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
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Union Corrugating Company (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens

Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother has most recently run. The industry is mature, entry barriers to competitors are low, and the company is over 50... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Gender; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry

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26 May 2016
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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

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

revisit the idea of investing in cleantech." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811009-PDF-ENG Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel Karthik Ramanna and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

28 Oct 2024
Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

School and expanding upon their global leadership capabilities." Kate Mitkevicius and Professor Vikram Gandhi at a steel plant near Bangalore, India. Mitkevicius and her colleague Kristen McCarthy are managing the second iteration of... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

Bayer (later part of IG Farben); and steel producer Krupp. Managing the internment risk World War I brought the first wave of civilian internment, creating a turning point for companies and triggering them to develop strategies for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Why have China's petrochemical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

local philanthropies, and other partners who might help them in the quest to steel their cities against future natural disasters. The takeaway: It takes a village to keep a city. And applicants responded in kind; the 13 winners came with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

sells nearly 2 million vehicles per year in India and other developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. "Given my family background, I knew I wanted to be a businessman by the time I was about 12," says Bajaj. His grandfather had bought a View Details

February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
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The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble

For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details

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30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art

which include spaces that accommodate the larger pieces in van Caldenborgh’s permanent collection, such as “Open Ended,” a steel sculpture by American artist Richard Serra that is 13 feet high and nearly 60 feet long, and weighs 216... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Arts, Entertainment

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

when all other options have been exhausted, for it will always be a drawn-out, distracting, and financially draining process. But sometimes it is simply absolutely necessary. [A WTO appeals panel ruled last week that U.S. duties on imported View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

2023 Thaddeus Mosley. Courtesy of the artist and Karma. Carrie Mae Weems, We Go On Mural (Brooklyn) from RESIST COVID/Take 6! , 2020–21. Photo © Jasmine Clarke. Courtesy Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Wind Sculpture (SG) V... View Details

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930 - 1960 From 1930 to 1960, the U.S. Steel Corporation commissioned photographers to document the inner workings of the company as part of a national public relations campaign. From the Great... View Details

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509007 Columbus Tubing: Steel Is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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