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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
and the sinking of the Japanese fleet in Truk Lagoon, which became one of the world’s largest ship graveyards. Much later it became a scuba destination because the steel turned out to be a useful foundation for coral reefs and marine... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... 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 and coal foundries to... View Details
- 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 and enduring. "The current... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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 working with small business owners on a national scale, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
tools and sell them out of his car to support his climbing and surfing habits. Business was good for Chouinard Equipment, and soon it was the biggest supplier of climbing hardware in the country. Eventually, Chouinard realized that hammering 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 and developed it into the... 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
- 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 leader who understands the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
leaders in building a stronger nation and world to ameliorate this ongoing legacy. Keep printing such thought-provoking and effective articles about issues of global social injustices. Joe Steele (MBA ’83) Craryville, NY View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
“topping off” ceremony for Klarman Hall, a new convening center being built on the southeastern corner of the HBS campus. The ceremony of raising the highest steel beam traditionally marks the halfway point of a building’s construction.... View Details
- 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 Force. “We’d tell them that we were venture capitalists. When... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio, with 28,000 employees worldwide.... 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, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making inventory profits from View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
examines August Thyssen and the management of his Thyssen & Co., Thyssen-Konzern, and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) from 1871 to 1936. He disproves the idea that German business management was backward and rigid until it... 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 goods, among them Ivory Soap,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
ProInspire. Roommate Valerie Faillace (MBA 2005), chief strategy officer for the KIPP Foundation, serves on the Bay Area’s advisory board; Justin Steele (MBA/MPA 2009), head of Bay Area Giving at Google, sits on the strategy committee;... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
’85), key players on the presidential task force that’s deciding what to do about the U.S. auto industry. As a longtime special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union, Bloom previously used skills he honed at Lazard Frères to help restructure the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
brand equity after a dramatic breakthrough in the 1760s Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry From luxury cars to aeroengines German Capitalism How a new country industrialized rapidly using an unorthodox strategy Thyssen View Details
Keywords: Susan Young