Steel and Mining - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially... View Details

15 Apr 2014
News

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Vavilov, who had co-founded Bitfury and expanded it substantially from its bitcoin mining roots, felt a blockchain-driven makeover of this sort would take place not just in Georgia's government but also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2015
News

Innovative Strategy Would Speed the Transition to a Lower-Carbon Energy Future

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

28 May 2014
News

Using Microorganisms to Extract Oil

Keywords: Glori Energy; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

Portrait Project

Sanjayan Manivannan

I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Factiva | Baker Library

Factiva Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Read More Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

24 Apr 2014
News

A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs

still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after HBS and service in the US Air... View Details

Clayton L. Mathile

Mathile bought the struggling pet food company from the founder when it had only one main product. Over the next decade, Mathile increased the company’s revenues by tenfold and introduced a full line of pet food View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

11 Feb 2016
News

Many Voices Working Toward a Solution

problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine View Details

Portrait Project

Mantazh Khanna

I will not let go of my yellow work boots and hard hat. Manager Tan gave them to me at a power plant in Singapore as he proudly showed me around his magnificently built facility. Crisscrossing shiny steel... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

at home.” Futures market: “Australia is in its 24th year of consecutive economic growth; over the next 10 years I believe the country will achieve even more due not only to our mining and energy assets, but... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

and the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion in Mongolia (2014). Globally, firms financed a record $415 billion in capital expenditures using project finance in 2013, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Ann Chao

Accepted into HBS’ 2+2 program, Ann completed her college education then worked as a consultant for a German firm in Beijing. “Nuclear power, automotive, steel distribution, financial services – I got a good view of many different kinds... View Details

Portrait Project

Greta Gerazimaite

today, my opinion is no longer mine alone. My voice carries weight, and I feel a responsibility to speak up. I want to raise more voices than I silence. I want to inspire those who doubt themselves – like I... View Details