Mining (except Oil and Gas) - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2024
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From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,... View Details

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marketing software with a 40-year legacy of innovation and successful adaptation, recognized GenAI as both an opportunity and a threat to its core business. Many creative professionals, a critical Adobe... View Details

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

brownfield sites, as well as addressing lead in drinking water.[50] Similarly, the program directs $725 million to reclaiming old mine lands and another $775 million to plugging orphaned View Details

25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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Varnika Menghnani

Coming to HBS is like Traveling the world in 637 days. It resembles a local, authentic travel experience: You meet people from all over, move past talking about the weather to real problems they want to solve. You sit and enjoy a meal... View Details

Louis T. Wells

Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details

Keywords: mining; mining; mining

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

James R. Moffett

In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

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Mollie Breen

After demonstrating exceptional math and computer science talent at Duke University, and more than three years of service as an applied research mathematician in the Department... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

June 2023 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in Lima, Peru

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Max Hancock

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Peru. It highlights Peru's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Peru; Latin America

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Christina Byrd

mine last October. It was part of National Coming Out Day, and I got to give my section mates a glimpse of what makes me, me.” This summer, Christina will take on an HR position with Nike in Oregon. “It... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

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Education (1) Mining (1) Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising (1) Mission and Purpose (20) Mobile Technology (8) Money (4) Monopoly (6) Moral Sensibility (25) Motivation View Details

27 Mar 2024
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Video: Inspirational Women in Business

View Video In honor of Women’s History Month, MBA Class of 2025 students Aastha Bhardwaj, Whitley Cargile, Briti Ghosh, Veronica Chua, and Eunjin Lee discuss women leaders and case protagonists who have... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

oil and ecotourism Giacomin draws on two very different cases to analyze that phenomenon, first examining the evolution of the rubber and palm View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page of the same Web site at the exact same moment, we would likely see different ads—yours relevant to your areas of interest and View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

18 Sep 2017
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'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

a bit of listening and data mining on social to get a feel for public sentiment. Nike can track whether people are talking about the company in relation to sweatshops, how expensive its products are, or if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

28 Jan 2016
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Why Get an MBA?

element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about... View Details

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