Mines - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
News

A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash

BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; recycling; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas)

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

September 1992 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.

By: Jay O. Light

A New York-based money manager owns a sizable percentage of the common shares of Cleveland-Cliffs, a U.S. iron ore producer. The money manager would prefer that Cliffs pay out or otherwise return $100 million of "excess cash" to the shareholders. The management resists... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Mining; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry

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Taxation and Mining: Non Fuel Minerals in Bolivia and Other Countries

By: L. T. Wells Jr., Malcolm Gillis and Meyer W. Bucovetsky

Keywords: Taxation; Mining; Metals and Minerals; Bolivia

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ProQuest TDM Studio | Baker Library

repositories or journal archives. Text and data mining environment includes programming libraries and scripts Leverages Harvard licensed ProQuest content (200+ sources) and researcher-provided content Research collaborators can share... View Details

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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors’ Companies and Communities On Investors’ Role: “Directing capital to companies that can use it productively is ultimately the most profound benefit investors can have on society.” -Michael E. Porter View Details

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From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury

By: Kristin Sippl

This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them. View Details

Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Poverty; Social Issues

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Portrait Project

Kara Scarbrough

into mine with conviction and certainty as she smiled and replied, "I know." I wasn't sure I believed it, but it was clear that she did. Seconds later she was gone. The months and years that followed were anything but ok. I took... View Details

Portrait Project

Jason Sanders

There are no real tomorrows, no plans, no potential leads. All I have are moments, just fleeting spots of time. Choice is mine to use them, to love, to act, to heal. Could let my past define me, draw a nice graph from where I've been to... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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W50 Next Steps

Carroll (MBA 1989) as CEO of global mining giant Anglo American. Both cases center on her decisions around the temporary shutdown of mines in South Africa, one of many steps the company would take under her... View Details

Keywords: W50; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 1982 (Revised June 1983)
Case

International Drilling Corp. (A)

Details the moral conflict experienced by Don Taylor, a new high-level executive in an oil drilling firm, when he discovered that the firm was deceiving its investors. What should he do and how should he go about it? Presents the emergence of Taylor's suspicions about... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mining Industry

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July 2021 (Revised October 2023)
Case

K.C. Li: The Tungsten King

By: Geoffrey Jones and Casey Verkamp

This case examines the business career of Kuo-Ching Li, who was born in China in 1892, and built a successful minerals trading business called Wah Chang in the United States during the interwar years. He acquired a prominent role in tungsten, the strongest natural... View Details

Keywords: Immigration Acts; Racial Bias; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; China; United States; Latin America

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1993
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Minerals: Eroding Oligopolies

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Mining Industry

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January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
Case

AngloGold - Corporate Responsibility for HIV/AIDS (A)

AngloGold, a South African gold-mining corporation, faces a decision to provide its workforce, 30% of which is infected with HIV, with antiretroviral treatment. View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Mining Industry; South Africa

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July 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Teaching Note

Restructuring Bulong's Project Debt (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Teaching Note for (9-203-027). View Details

Keywords: Mining Industry; Australia

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April 1999 (Revised February 2001)
Background Note

Offshore Drilling Industry, The

After booming in 1997 and early 1998, the offshore drilling industry slumps in late 1998 and early 1999. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates--the prices paid... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Price; Supply and Industry; Mining Industry

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