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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
fail. Furthermore, he says, industries with large sunk costs - typically, basic manufacturing operations such as steel plants - are often the ones in which the consequences of excess capacity are the most severe View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
"For most of the eighties," recalls the unflappable mother of three and wife of a college president, "I was pregnant, walking through steel mills, and buying companies." Now... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
focuses on six worldwide corporate brands, including Nestlé, Nescafé, Nestea, Buitoni, Maggi, and Friskies, which are complemented by regional brands such as Stouffer's and Crosse & Blackwell. After... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
Pictured, from left: Cliff Gayley and architect William Rawn of William Rawn Associates; Dean Nitin Nohria; Beth Klarman; Seth Klarman; and Richard Walsh, president and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
In the light and airy fourth-grade classroom at the Bowman public school in Lexington, Massachusetts, the desks are clustered back-to-back in groups of five, forming a series of islands. In one corner, a large spider web made of View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after HBS and service in the US Air... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
immigrant who shrewdly spotted an opportunity in the nascent steel industry and became one of the richest men in his adopted country. Carnegie's era also saw an unprecedented explosion of branded consumer... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
3,000 more this year. Railroading is a very capital-intensive business; we invested approximately $1.8 billion of capital, or about 17 percent of our revenues, in 2010. Rail, locomotives, railcars, and technology components remain the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
could be a community asset and add value, not only to the Estes family, but to the community as a whole. Architect Jamil Ford's reflection garden is a community space for quiet contemplation. It includes a hardy shrub reminiscent of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
many admirers is distressed-assets financier Wilbur Ross (MBA ’61), who got to know Bloom from across the bargaining table when Ross was trying to buy up steel companies that Bloom represented. Observed Ross, “He’s very, very pragmatic,... View Details