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- October 2015
- Teaching Note
Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower... View Details
Keywords: Convertible Debt; Uncertainty; Competition; Startup; China; Supply ＆ Demand; Growth; Rare Earth Minerals; Discounted Cash Flows; Mining; Payoff Diagrams; Option Pricing; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Financial Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Vertical Integration; Valuation; Metals and Minerals; Mining Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Canada; California
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
the boom in LED manufacturing, Chinese local governments would pay for 100 percent of the cost of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) tool used to make LEDs, so naturally what followed was a dramatic over-expansion of... View Details
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including angiography injectors, catheters,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial and finance behemoth from one famously... View Details
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including angiography injectors, catheters,... View Details
- Web
Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
the impacts of climate change and the importance of empowering those countries to benefit from the economic value created by clean energy while increasing the cost borne by developed nations. In “Decarbonizing Heavy Industries”, panelist Laureen Meroueh , CEO of Hertha... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
you’re sorely missing out. Gladwell tells us why everything we thought about the history of heavy metal music, and law school admissions, and how mob families work, and chutzpah is wrong. (And teaches us to think like a Jesuit along the... View Details
- 1980
- Chapter
Negotiating and Implementing Mineral Agreements with Multinationals: Some Critical Tax Development Issues
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Malcolm Gillis
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Taxation; Mining Industry
Wells, L. T., Jr., and Malcolm Gillis. "Negotiating and Implementing Mineral Agreements with Multinationals: Some Critical Tax Development Issues." In Tax and Investment Policies for Hard Minerals: Public and Multinational Enterprises in Indonesia, by Malcolm Gillis, Ralph Beals, Glenn Jenkins, L. T. Wells Jr., and Ulrich Peterson. MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1980.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat and shipbuilding, and metal fabrication in Seattle. The list... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The landowner's share of net oil production, taken in the form of crude oil rather than in cash. Slug Catcher: A metal vessel that separates liquids from natural gas. Snubber: The most dangerous job in the oil field. A worker who controls... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador
Musacchio, Aldo, Lena G. Goldberg, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Petrobras in Ecuador (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-107, April 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo. Carroll and her husband, David,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the disk’s metal clip and yanked open the tough plastic outer casing, Enriquez now removes from its inner sanctum a flimsy black vinyl circle. “This is the part that matters,” he declares, waving it triumphantly before the youngsters, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
significant military support—of US Special Operations Forces. Spring: Bouncing Back from Rejection By Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) Westland “Spring: a twisted piece of metal that can be pushed, pressed or pulled but which always... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
States on view, where are the most flagrant polluters? Well, the United States has a lot of red dots. Toffel mentions that power plants and metal mines are the 2 industries with the greatest amount of toxic pollution, and that counties... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need to get their organizations rolling once again. — Deborah Blagg... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
in metal cutting. These were sophisticated customers, and the role of the intermediary (called a formulator) was to provide outstanding maintenance services. The new product, however, was intended for operations that were supported by... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite some ups and downs, it thrived.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
chromium, a toxic heavy metal that is linked to respiratory cancer, asthma, skin irritation, and liver and kidney damage. This is not protecting us. And quite frankly, if you encounter any of these regulated hazards in an office building... View Details