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  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
  • July 1991
  • Case

Pioneer Petroleum Corp.

By: Richard S. Ruback
Pioneer is an integrated oil company. Its operations include exploration and development, production, transportation, and marketing. The case focuses on Pioneer's cost of capital calculations and its choice between a single company-wide cost of capital or divisional... View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
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  • October 1996 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Mobil US Marketing & Refining has shifted from a centralized staff-driven organization to decentralized business-units. Staff functions now must negotiate service agreements with a buyer's committee consisting of representatives from the profit-center business units.... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Management Teams; Human Resources; Agreements and Arrangements; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customers; Situation or Environment; Business Units; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

grid), not to mention designing a route to the river, into the river, and out of the river for millions of pilgrims. There are said to be more than 156 kilometers of double track checker plate steel creating... View Details
Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • August 1986 (Revised May 1989)
  • Case

Timken Co.

Describes the efforts of the Timken Co., a major international producer of bearings and steel, to develop an effective employee communication program. The case examines the intense international competitive atmosphere, the recent record of job losses in related... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Communication Strategy; Steel Industry; Steel Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials,... View Details
  • Web

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Mireya Iglesias Ayala (MBA 2025) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Caterpillar, Inc. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst must identify role of management and actuarial judgment in measuring corporate post employment benefit obligations and assets. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
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  • 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 View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Letters to the Editor

leaders in building a stronger nation and world to ameliorate this ongoing legacy. Keep printing such thought-provoking and effective articles about issues of global social injustices. Joe View Details
Keywords: Roland Christensen; Roberta Moniz Lasley; Diana Greer; Edna Homa; Anne Jardim; Eunice Jensen; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

    Henry A. Roemer

    Roemer assumed the presidency of Sharon Steel during the early years of the Depression when it was losing almost half a million dollars on sales of $10 million. Under his guidance and leadership, Sharon... View Details
    Keywords: Metals
    • Web

    From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography... View Details
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

    connections with various nonmining quarters of Chilean life, including the financial, industrial, and legal sectors. These players' support for Kennecott strengthened its BATNA. In contrast, while Chile's BATNA — expropriating the View Details
    Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
    • 13 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    March 13, 2018

    consequences for Moorjani, for the young businesses he had built, and for the future of mobility. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-055 Robert K. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Ernest T. Weir

      Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner,... View Details
      Keywords: Metals
      • 22 Sep 2015
      • Blog Post

      Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard

      months when Mike Wheeler, who was a professor and mentor of mine at HBS, called to see if I wanted to teach Negotiations on a two-year appointment at HBS.  I left McKinsey on a leave-of-absence, fully... View Details
      • 23 Apr 2014
      • News

      A corporate leader’s legacy in India

      When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate... View Details
      • 20 Jun 2016
      • Blog Post

      Exploring Cleantech at HBS

      write a case on a challenge they are facing, or do a high level industry scan to explore a broader trend.  Cleantech can be a risky career choice – businesses are often highly capital intensive and vulnerable to commodity prices View Details

        Benjamin F. Fairless

        Fairless oversaw the world’s largest iron and steel producer with total assets over $2 billion. In 1947 alone, Fairless spent $20 million per month for additions and... View Details
        Keywords: Metals