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- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Union Corrugating Company(A) and (B) (HBS Cases 803065 and 804003). 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
Sharpe, Jim. "Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-724, June 2013.
- 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 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
number amounts to the relevant building materials or building detail. Answers are below. 281,350 1,760 2,584,000 pounds 9,865 feet 206,075 44 miles steel light fixtures pipe slate shingles wiring bricks ANSWERS: 1f; 2b; 3a; 4c; 5d; 6e View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
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
- 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
- August 1986 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Timken Co.
Describes the efforts of the Timken Co., a major international producer of bearings and steel, to develop an effective employee communication program. The case examines the intense international competitive atmosphere, the recent record of job losses in related... View Details
Hattersley, Michael E. "Timken Co." Harvard Business School Case 387-035, August 1986. (Revised May 1989.)
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
engineering.” His first post-university assignment as an electrical engineer gave him the variety he sought. “I did pretty much everything: power supply and generation, motors, electronics.” But after two years in a steel mill, Tariro... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Ann Chao
Accepted into HBS’ 2+2 program, Ann completed her college education then worked as a consultant for a German firm in Beijing. “Nuclear power, automotive, steel distribution, financial services – I got a good view of many different kinds... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
grid), not to mention designing a route to the river, into the river, and out of the river for millions of pilgrims. There are said to be more than 156 kilometers of double track checker plate steel creating drivable roads in the sand and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
hosted medical, law, and nonprofit offices. But by 2019, its small suites felt dated, and developers launched a four-year, $58 million project that would bring the building into the 21st century—not as offices, but as luxury apartments with polished concrete floors,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
arts programming. To boost fundraising for the SPNM program, Panoff says the club has established the F. Steele III and Patricia H. Blackall Scholarship—named for the late F. Steele Blackall (MBA 1949), a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
yin and yang between the improvement of the built environment and the preservation of nature,” says Rosenfeld, a member of the California advisory board The Trust for Public Land. “I’d like to think we’re protecting the natural world every time we start to pile bricks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, a wide cross-section of faculty, alumni, students, and friends from across the University were joined by the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and other local representatives to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the scientists and researchers in the young company asked Cardozo if he would like to join the team as CEO in early 2014. The process works like this: End-of-life tires are collected at the Black Bear plant, where their steel wiring is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
most sensitive and talented prospects away? Will work groups be broken into increasingly smaller sizes, typical of the philosophy on which Nucor Steel was built—when a plant reaches a size of roughly two hundred employees, it's time to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
geographies; people who can understand the global dynamics—politics and economics—affecting their markets. It's a very different thing selling platinum for automobile catalytic converters versus copper for steel and construction."... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
consequences for Moorjani, for the young businesses he had built, and for the future of mobility. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-055 Robert K. Steel at Wachovia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
who’ve succumbed to the lure of guilty pleasures, to the point of being coy about acknowledging them to pollsters, will face bigger coming-out problems down the road. Sell dreams even if you have no plan to deliver. If you’ve been promising jobs in demolished View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton