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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - 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

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

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

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Purchase

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

05 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Reflective Leader

prepared for the course academically - I read all my cases, watched all the videos, and steeled myself for my first cold call after nearly 13 years - I was not prepared for the emotional journey. During the first day of the program there... View Details

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

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

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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

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

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 Oct 1999
News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 1999
News

Short Takes

operator adjusts the oven because it "doesn't sound right" and prevents a disaster. A steel alloy salesperson who has kept his eye on emissions regulations knows what "the next big thing" in furnace manufacturing will be long before it... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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

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

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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

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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

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

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh and Canon, Western Union by the telephone, and big... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure and diversify MUSCO. That was the preparation... View Details

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