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- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US steel making. Similarly, Arkadi... View Details
Ian K. MacGregor
efforts, he built AMAX into the third largest mining operation in the United States. From this success, he moved back to Britain where, in his 70’s, he reorganized the British Steel Corporation. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- April 1998
- Teaching Note
Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar
Teaching Note for (9-198-087). View Details
Keywords: Steel Industry
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Elkay Plumbing Products Division (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for 110007. View Details
- October 1999 (Revised July 2004)
- Teaching Note
Halloran Metals (TN)
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Teaching Note for (9-683-062). View Details
- March 1982
- Supplement
British Steel: Interview with Sir Monty Finniston (Abridged), Video
By: John P. Kotter
Kotter, John P. "British Steel: Interview with Sir Monty Finniston (Abridged), Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 882-521, March 1982.
- December 2010
- Supplement
Fortis Industries, Inc. (D)
Fortis' packaging division president makes a final decision on the price-flex policy. View Details
Moriarty, Rowland T., and Gordon Swartz. "Fortis Industries, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 511-082, December 2010.
- September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Teaching Note
Empresas CAP, 1994 TN
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for (9-798-053). View Details
Keywords: Steel Industry
John P. Morgan
1901, Morgan purchased Andrew Carnegie’s steel business and created U.S. Steel, which became the first billion-dollar corporation in the United States. He had the power to stop financial panics (which he did in 1907), powers that would... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 May 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Measure on Memorial Day
Academy and commissioning as an engineer officer in the US Army, I joined the founders of Steel Hearts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the fallen cadets, midshipmen, and graduates of America’s service academies... View Details
- 06 Mar 2021
- News
Elevated Economics
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
civic leaders gathered for a “topping-off” ceremony to mark the occasion of the highest steel beam going into place on Harvard’s future Science and Engineering Complex. The 500,000-square-foot facility will be the newest addition to the... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
Koch-WeserHarvard Business School Case 912-411 What is Baosteel, a top Chinese steelmaker, doing in Brazil? The company is responding to the Chinese government's "go global" policy and to the possible rise in iron ore input costs. But View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
"We are the 'piggy bank' that everyone wants to take advantage of," President Donald Trump told his 61 million Twitter followers in May, days after he hiked tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. "NO MORE!"" But research by Harvard... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joe Stenger
ebbs and flows with the demand for steel and coal, and in 1992, many of the factories that once provided the community’s lifeblood sat dormant along the banks of the Ohio River. Subsumed by poverty, the "soft bigotry of low expectations"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
(HBS Archives Photograph Collection) Shad Hall, named in honor former SEC chairman John Shad (MBA 1949), celebrated its 25th anniversary in September. An early Boston Globe review cheered the entrance’s “powerful concrete column that holds up a heavy View Details
- Web
Trimming his whiskers - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production The Worker Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Trimming his whiskers ca. 1935 Midvale Company John Mudd Workmen with pneumatic chipping hammers clean a steel casting. The... View Details
- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (A) (Spreadsheet Supplement)
This is the spreadsheet supplement for HBS Case 803065, containing Exhibit 3 as an Excel document. View Details
Keywords: Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Sales Force Management; Salesforce Management; Operations Management; COST Control; Gender; Careers; Turnaround; Turnarounds; Supply Chain Management; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; North Carolina; United States