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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
away from Brazil (as Vale increased its exports to China and purchased Chinese vessels to ship iron ore to Asia) were reasons to start an open campaign to pressure Vale and Roger Agnelli to invest in integrated steel mills in Brazil. In...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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Desmond Wong
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its revenue projections and bonus targets for the upcoming year, Linden shares some good news with his leadership team, the Global Executive Committee (GEC): an internal R&D effort to develop cheaper View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
to produce, sell, and deliver a wide variety of stainless steel sinks to a diverse customer base. Given the division's high variety of products and customers (which includes wholesalers, retailers, contractors, and distributors), the VP...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
offshore, he was working long days on a high-rise project, and neither of us had any intention of slowing down. I didn’t think it was possible for someone to share my ambitions, passions, and silliness or that a man in a hard hat could fall in love with a woman in...
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- 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...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
of five characteristics. First, nerves of steel are critical: Any manager who executes a blockbuster strategy will have to be willing to make big moves that, if they don't work out as planned, could really hurt the company's bottom line....
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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
MK: Hobbes is pretty big. He's taller than me. I'm about six feet tall. I wouldn't say he's particularly exciting looking. He is a giant steel box, essentially. DM: Inside, you can see waffle-shaped sorbent cartridges designed to remove...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
construction crews made steady progress on the most dramatic campus transformation in the last decade. On the former site of Kresge Hall, giant cranes moved steel girders into place as part of the construction of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao...
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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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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
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
as president of a steel company before turning to the stage. “[Education] was not so much about, you know, doing well to get a good job. I guess that’s in everybody’s mind, but I always saw it as an incredible intellectual challenge.”...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
3,000 more this year. Railroading is a very capital-intensive business; we invested approximately $1.8 billion of capital, or about 17 percent of our revenues, in 2010. Rail, locomotives, railcars, and technology components remain the big-ticket items. CSX purchases...
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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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- 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
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
construct narratives explaining the dynamics of three nascent technical systems: early aircraft, high-speed steel in machine tools, and container shipping. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55140...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
could be a community asset and add value, not only to the Estes family, but to the community as a whole. Architect Jamil Ford's reflection garden is a community space for quiet contemplation. It includes a hardy shrub reminiscent of a bonsai tree that can withstand...
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