Metals - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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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

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

operate in imagination, in the realm of knowledge and ideas. While artful making improves anything that exhibits interdependency among its parts, we're not primarily concerned with heating metal and beating it into shapes. We're more... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

rapper Dr. Dre and the heavy metal band Metallica sued Napster for copyright infringement late in 1999. But is was unclear how intellectual-property law applied to such an innovation, so Napster's opponents also pursued a legislative... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

September 2024
Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene

This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details

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01 Jun 2003
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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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

States. But he’s also a business-builder. Most recently, he was president of Novellus Systems Japan and VP and general manager of the Integrated Metals business unit. “The biggest thing that gets me excited about Soladigm is the scale,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Council on Mining and Metals has developed transparency principles for mining firms, and the Responsible Care program of the chemical industry has focused on outcomes ranging from employee safety to environmental impact. Similarly, the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Supplement

From "BIG" Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In August 2023, Raviv Zoller, CEO of ICL Group, discussed his upcoming business trip to St. Louis with Eduard Croitoru, VP of ICL Corporate Initiatives, to commemorate the construction of ICL's new $400 million advanced manufacturing facility. In preparation for the... View Details

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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

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

consider how the sales strategy would need to be adjusted in order to succeed with both a coated and an uncoated product." How Much You Asking for that Pile-Driver Pad? Case: Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

with both a coated and an uncoated product.” How Much You Asking for that Pile-Driver Pad? Case: Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division — 1980 Written: 1980 Copies Sold: 197,677 Cumberland, a disguised company, has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

firm's leaders from conflict to collaboration. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909010 Tong Lung Metal Industry Co., Ltd Harvard Business School Case 609-034 Develop its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state-owned China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation, to illustrate China’s growing interest and involvement in the African continent. While many in Africa welcome the substantial Chinese investment, resentment over labor abuses, low... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 1980s. Some 150,000 jobs... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

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

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

04 Oct 2018
News

“A Shout Through Time”

by the metal detectors as a piece of potentially silver. So after they started to clean it, little by little the name appeared, and then the code appeared and the emotion was very strong, because suddenly they started to realize this was... View Details

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