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08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

fisheterian.” I knew the word “pescatarian,” but I was making a very bad attempt at humor. After the talk, the cognitive psychologist Doug Medin approached me. Before I tell you what he said, it’s important to know that Doug is a friend of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

essential to quality of life. Education breeds opportunity which, in turn, elevates life. So having parents and grandparents who were not afforded those opportunities meant that their lives took forms different from what mine ever will.... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

may color the perceptions of those most directly involved in the failure. After experiencing failure, people typically attribute too much blame to other people and to forces beyond their control. If this tendency goes unchecked, it reduces an organization's ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

innovative practices or foster sustainability?” Giacomin sees a number of other research opportunities for studying clusters. Most of the world’s lithium—now in high demand because it’s used in so many electronic products and electric car batteries—is View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

lowered your rate and mine all the way to 28 percent. (Things began to right themselves when Clinton put it back up to 39.6 percent.) And then again when George W. Bush cut our long-term gains rate by a quarter and the tax rate on our... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Raffaelli : Selected as a finalist for the 2012 Best Symposium Award for “Fields of Gold: Mining the Origins, Definitions, and Assumptions Attending Institutional Fields” from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

The problem is to find the way to make it possible for them to receive what they have earned.” (1969) “Incidentally, an old Hahvahd business acquaintance of mine was bugging me for a long time about how I ought to forsake this primitive... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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10 May 2020
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Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

was born. Everyone offered their well wishes, support for anything my family needed, and encouragement when I needed it most. I remember when The first friend I decided to tell I was pregnant was a sectionmate of mine with whom I am very... View Details

January 2002 (Revised April 2002)
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Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why Are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?

Discusses the role of diamonds in Angola's civil war. View Details

Keywords: War; Goods and Commodities; Mining; Mining Industry; Angola

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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
Case

American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk

By: Peter Tufano

Managing the risk of changing prices of gold is central to the business strategy of American Barrick Resources Corp., one of North America's largest and most successful gold-mining firms. The case contrasts this firm's hedging policies with those of its rivals that do... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Business Strategy; Mining; Mining Industry; United States

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Deep Ocean Mineral Resources

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Mining; Natural Environment; Mining Industry

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01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Mining; Mining

2007
Article

The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly?

Keywords: Duopoly and Oligopoly; Business History; Mining; Mining Industry; Norway

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A geologist by training, Henshaw was not immune to being on the frontline of mine exploration and development. Through his efforts, Homestake became an established provider of uranium. In addition, he personally was responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Edward J. Berwind

During his years at the helm of Berwind-White Coal Mining, Berwind was closely associated with J.P. Morgan in the consolidation, reorganization, integration, and expansion of his coal operations. Berwind was reputed to be the world’s largest individual owner of coal... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

October 2013
Supplement

Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)

By: Paul Healy and Penelope Rossano

In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Acquisitions; Alcoa; Alcan; Rio Tinto; Aluminum Industry; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Consolidation; Market Participation; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Mining; Mining Industry; Canada; United States

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the discovery and exploration of natural resource deposits around the world, especially the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. As CEO, Moffett oversaw a massive growth plan for the combined entities and expanded the firm’s View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

April 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Case

R&B Falcon

R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company makes huge investments in several new state-of-the art $300 million ultra-deep-water drilling rigs. As day rates and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Industry Growth; Mining; Product Marketing; Mining Industry

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How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

You Only Thought You Were Republican

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

One Man Crime Wave

Leadership and Teaming

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why Are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk

Deep Ocean Mineral Resources

Cynthia Carroll

The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly?

Paul C. Henshaw

Edward J. Berwind

Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)

James R. Moffett

R&B Falcon