Steel and Mining - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

And consumers are becoming less willing to pay for it in the price of GM's products. When dependency ratios become too burdensome, as in the case of Bethlehem Steel in 2001, where each worker was supporting... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

September 1998 (Revised March 2002)
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Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett

Petrozuata is a proposed $2.5 billion oil-field development project in Venezuela. The case is set in 1997 as the project sponsors, Conoco and PDVSA (Venezuela's national oil company), are planning to meet with various development agencies and rating agencies regarding... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Valuation; Project Finance; Capital Markets; Investment; Projects; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Venezuela

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11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

as if to steel himself, before continuing. It was very unlike Bernie, that pause, and it communicated the gravity of the circumstances more than the words that followed it. A bolt of panic stirred the eggs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

a bit of listening and data mining on social to get a feel for public sentiment. Nike can track whether people are talking about the company in relation to sweatshops, how expensive its products are, or if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

28 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page of the same Web site at the exact same moment, we would likely see different ads—yours relevant to your areas of interest and View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

08 Sep 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

out really well for me! Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I graduated from HBS in 2017 and have since raised ~$100M and co-founded three companies: one battery metals View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

friend of mine who was in her class, and when I entered the room, I saw her. She was actually not facing me, and I remember thinking, oh, I should sit next to this girl—without... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Boquiren Preuss School La Jolla, CA Subjects: AP U.S. History, Western Civilization and Culture CA 6 of 65 Steven Chai Bakersfield Christian High School Bakersfield, CA Subjects: AP US History, AP US Government CA 7 of 65 Sabrina Chase... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price,... View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

troubled businesses to profitability became widely known, and investors were eager to support his ventures. J.P. Morgan & Company organized and financed some of the largest corporate mergers of the early... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

the campus as a “living lab,” to lower Harvard’s own environmental footprint. Aatish is not alone. When CarbonRe started in the Climate Circle, they knew they could use AI to help decarbonize heavy industry and save energy, but they were... View Details

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

are paid very generously. I probably should have put mine towards tuition, but I decided to travel over winter break and chose to put much of it toward travel. Now for some tough love. Harvard’s Financial... View Details

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

pivot into venture capital and impact investing to ensure that communities like mine – Black, queer, and disabled – have access to capital to build products View Details

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