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- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
who’ve succumbed to the lure of guilty pleasures, to the point of being coy about acknowledging them to pollsters, will face bigger coming-out problems down the road. Sell dreams even if you have no plan to deliver. If you’ve been promising jobs in demolished View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Union Corrugating Company(A) and (B) (HBS Cases 803065 and 804003). View Details
Keywords: Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Sales Force Management; Salesforce Management; Operations Management; COST Control; Gender; Careers; Turnaround; Turnarounds; Supply Chain Management; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; North Carolina; United States
Sharpe, Jim. "Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-724, June 2013.
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh and Canon, Western Union by the telephone, and big... View Details
- October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Union Corrugating Company (A)
By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother has most recently run. The industry is mature, entry barriers to competitors are low, and the company is over 50... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Gender; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry
Marshall, Paul W., and Julia Stevens. "Union Corrugating Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-065, October 2002. (Revised February 2011.)
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from China that we see as unfairly... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Why have China's petrochemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike
By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble
For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Unionism; Craft Unionism; Welfare Capitalism; General Motors; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Working Conditions; Government Legislation; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; United States; Michigan
Nicholas, Tom, Christopher T. Stanton, and Matthew Preble. "The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike." Harvard Business School Case 817-005, February 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808011 Tascot Ties Harvard Business School Case 808-082 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808082 Trends in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work teams freedom from departmental budget... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509007 Columbus Tubing: Steel Is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
better understanding of commercial realpolitik: great-power politics based on the profit motives and shared ideas of firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
application by application, customer by customer, disease by disease. [ ] Nucor cut its teeth on concrete reinforcing bars, not the sheet steel that fed Ford. Cisco deployed its switches to route data, not voice—because data didn't care... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
the Toyota Production System or cartels in the steel industry. That was one of the real differences in teaching MBAs; part of my job was to try to tap the wealth of their collective experience and knowledge so that they could, in fact,... View Details
- 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 and workers to fill them? Do... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Bayer (later part of IG Farben); and steel producer Krupp. Managing the internment risk World War I brought the first wave of civilian internment, creating a turning point for companies and triggering them to develop strategies for... View Details
- 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.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
American steel producers began to lose out to foreign competition. In the Pittsburgh region, which is to steel what Detroit is to the automobile, primary metals employment dropped by three quarters in the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
when all other options have been exhausted, for it will always be a drawn-out, distracting, and financially draining process. But sometimes it is simply absolutely necessary. [A WTO appeals panel ruled last week that U.S. duties on imported View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- April 2025
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil