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- 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
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the healthcare industry. Attention is given to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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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- 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
- 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...
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- 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...
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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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- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like you can just reestablish that...
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- 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
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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...
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- March 2020
- Article
Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent...
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Decarbonization;
Carbon Emissions;
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Investment;
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Green Technology;
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Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems." Production and Operations Management 29, no. 3 (March 2020): 526–546.
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
the Toyota Production System or cartels in the steel industry. That was one of the real differences in teaching MBAs; part of my job was to try to tap the wealth of their collective experience and knowledge so that they could, in fact,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower...
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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
don’t make the technology. But we help package the financing for improvements so the companies and the environment overall can enjoy the benefits. We get paid through the revenues of this process.” There are additional benefits, Janice said. “In a View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
through an opening barely wider than his shoulders, and closes the hatch. “When you’re closing that hatch you can’t be claustrophobic, and you have to curb any instinctive fears you have of the deep, of the dark. You have to mentally View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812 Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge fund that has...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case...
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Dina Gerdeman