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- 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...
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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...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
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...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leading Change;
Family Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Gender;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry
Marshall, Paul W., and Julia Stevens. "Union Corrugating Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-065, October 2002. (Revised February 2011.)
- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
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
- 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
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
conglomerate Tata & Sons, played a significant role in building India's economic infrastructure. Under his guidance, Tata & Sons built locomotives, steel refineries, airlines, chemical plants, and technology-based enterprises....
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
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...
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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...
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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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- 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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- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Donaher created the multi-generational panel event to highlight the progress at HBS around LGBTQ diversity and inclusion. Joining Donaher on the panel were Megan Chann (MBA 2018), Joseph Steele (MBA 1983), Ellen Bossert (MBA 1992), Paula...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
to be in the future. And that’s worked well in the United States in places like Pittsburgh, where steel went away, and forward-thinking, committed civic leaders thought, ‘Let’s nurture a couple of new industries.” But they had a lot of...
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- February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
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...
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Industrial Unionism;
Craft Unionism;
Welfare Capitalism;
General Motors;
Labor;
Labor Unions;
Labor and Management Relations;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Community Relations;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
United States;
Michigan
Nicholas, Tom, Christopher T. Stanton, and Matthew Preble. "The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike." Harvard Business School Case 817-005, February 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
better understanding of commercial realpolitik: great-power politics based on the profit motives and shared ideas of firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
application by application, customer by customer, disease by disease. [ ] Nucor cut its teeth on concrete reinforcing bars, not the sheet steel that fed Ford. Cisco deployed its switches to route data, not voice—because data didn't care...
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- 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
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion...
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- 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...
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