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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

High Honors

Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining
  • March 1997
  • Background Note

Copper and Zinc Markets 1996

By: Peter Tufano
Provides background information on copper and zinc markets as of mid-1996. Discusses supply and demand conditions, forecasts of the spot prices of the metals, and contracts for future delivery (forwards, futures, and options). View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Metals and Minerals; Supply and Industry; Mining Industry
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  • Conference Presentation

Evaluating the Management of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Management; Projects; Mining Industry; Alaska
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  • October 2001 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Negotiation; Ethics; Social Issues; Economic Sectors; Investment; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Mining Industry; Chad; Cameroon
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  • July 1998 (Revised April 2000)
  • Teaching Note

Freeport Indonesia TN

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for (9-796-124). View Details
Keywords: Mining Industry; Indonesia
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  • April 1998
  • Case

Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (C)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, president of Extrusion Technology, describes the first five years at the aluminum extrusion company he purchased. He begins with day one as he introduced himself to the employees in 1987 and assured them of the company's continuity. Over the next two years,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Profit; Innovation Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Mining Industry
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  • April 1997 (Revised October 2005)
  • Teaching Note

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A) (TN)

By: H. Kent Bowen
Teaching Note for (9-692-042). View Details
Keywords: Mining Industry
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  • July 1979 (Revised December 1984)
  • Case

Coal Strike of 1977-78 (C)

By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Mining Industry
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  • June 1990
  • Teaching Note

Ashamu Holdings Ltd. (B) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Mining Industry; Nigeria
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  • February 1998
  • Case

Lyondell Petrochemical Company

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Daniel P. Erikson
In August 1994, Lyondell Petrochemical Co.'s corporate parent and largest single shareholder effectively shed its stock, resulting in the resignation of 5 of its 11 directors. The remaining outside directors immediately acted to overhaul the executive compensation plan... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Design; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Mining Industry
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  • February 1979
  • Supplement

Alcan Aluminium Ltd. (B)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein
Keywords: Mining Industry
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    Savannah Maziya

    Keywords: Infrastructure, Mining

      Eduardo Hochschild

      Keywords: Mining

        Alberto Benavides

        Keywords: Mining
        • 24 Apr 2014
        • News

        Setting the standards higher for safety and success

        Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014) View Details
        • Portrait Project

        Stephanie Parker

        considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on... View Details
        • Portrait Project

        Monica Haugen

        everyone is lucky enough to begin down such a path. I can only hope to change someone else's life in the way that mine was changed. Consequently, my master plan is to expose new options to all those around me. I will tell my children and... View Details
        • Portrait Project

        Sanjayan Manivannan

        I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I felt on my bare feet. The... View Details
        • 10 Dec 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: December 10

        from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 11 Feb 2016
        • News

        Many Voices Working Toward a Solution

        problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a... View Details