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January 2021
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Rio Tinto Aluminum: Can Purpose Lead to Profit?

By: David Fubini and Agastya Muthanna

This case describes the tradeoffs Rio Tinto faces as it considers investments to ensure environmentally friendly, sustainability produced aluminum with the potential risks of competitive pricing and profit loses. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Price; Competition; Profit; Cost vs Benefits; Mining Industry

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Keywords: Banking; Mining

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Randolph Rodrigues

professors here have stirred up. Along the way, I want to turn a stagnant fruit-processing company into a vibrant spring of innovative juices — transform a dormant granite and marble mine into a building-block of domestic rejuvenation —... View Details

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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

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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

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Factiva | Baker Library

Factiva can only be used for academic research. Using the content for analytics or text mining is prohibited. Learn More Company databases: which database to choose? Still need help? Our expert librarians are here to help you find what... View Details

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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

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Research Links: Photographs - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Papers include 111 stereographs and photographs taken by F. Jay Haynes, the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railway. Haynes' images were intended to promote the region and encourage further settlement. He recorded railroad construction and operations,... View Details

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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Haynes, whose images were meant to promote the region and encourage further settlement, recorded towns, settlements, new construction, military garrisons, miners, mining villages, farms, Native American settlements, and natural scenery... View Details

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Humbulani Dombo

throughout life." Seeking "optionality," Humbulani majored in economics and information systems at the University of Cape Town. After completing her degree, she joined Anglo American, a diversified mining company, and... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

negotiation, Sebenius cites the case of Kennecott Copper Corporation. Faced with a possible government takeover of its mines in Chile a number of years ago, Kennecott knew it had to renegotiate its long-term, low-royalty agreement. A... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

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Greta Gerazimaite

today, my opinion is no longer mine alone. My voice carries weight, and I feel a responsibility to speak up. I want to raise more voices than I silence. I want to inspire those who doubt themselves – like I did, and still sometimes do –... View Details

July 1997
Teaching Note

Phelps Dodge Corporation (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-295-132). View Details

Keywords: Mining Industry; Arizona; United States

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April 1995
Case

Phelps Dodge Corporation

By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand

A prolonged decline in copper prices prompts Phelps Dodge, one of the world's largest independent copper companies, to consider corporate diversification as a means of protecting itself from copper price volatility. View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Price; Volatility; Risk Management; Mining Industry; Arizona; United States

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Gulfport Mining, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Mining Industry

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2010
Thesis

Out of Norway falls aluminium: the Norwegian aluminium industry in the international economy, 1908-1940

Keywords: History; Metals and Minerals; Mining Industry; Norway

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January 1997
Case

Dr. Sergio Ceccuzzi and SMI: Negotiating Cross-Border Acquisitions in Europe (B)

By: James K. Sebenius

Since the 1960s, SMI has quietly executed a series of brilliantly negotiated takeovers throughout Europe, often acquiring companies much larger than itself. Despite formidable obstacles, SMI has managed to acquire state-owned competitors in Italy and France, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Corporate Governance; International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Consolidation; Mining Industry; Europe

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