Steel - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

Bayer (later part of IG Farben); and steel producer Krupp. Managing the internment risk World War I brought the first wave of civilian internment, creating a turning point for companies and triggering them to develop strategies for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
Case

The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble

For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details

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18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509007 Columbus Tubing: Steel Is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

quickly enough, and the fish will feel the steel and spit out the hook.” Does it tick multiple boxes? “I love to be outside. Fly-fishing gives me something interesting and absorbing to do in some really beautiful places.” Can you do it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

American steel producers began to lose out to foreign competition. In the Pittsburgh region, which is to steel what Detroit is to the automobile, primary metals employment dropped by three quarters in the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

differences and beckons all who dare to envision lives unshackled by present realities. Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh By William J. Miller, Jr. (PMD 56, 1988) Lyons Press Steel City is the story of the... View Details

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work teams freedom from departmental budget... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

when all other options have been exhausted, for it will always be a drawn-out, distracting, and financially draining process. But sometimes it is simply absolutely necessary. [A WTO appeals panel ruled last week that U.S. duties on imported View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

2023 Thaddeus Mosley. Courtesy of the artist and Karma. Carrie Mae Weems, We Go On Mural (Brooklyn) from RESIST COVID/Take 6! , 2020–21. Photo © Jasmine Clarke. Courtesy Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Wind Sculpture (SG) V... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

stockpile destined to supply steel plants in China. “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” Spectra AI is even smart... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

“Back then, the valley was 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 earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them... View Details

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

application by application, customer by customer, disease by disease. [ ] Nucor cut its teeth on concrete reinforcing bars, not the sheet steel that fed Ford. Cisco deployed its switches to route data, not voice—because data didn't care... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

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; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

the US, for example, travel and creation of intellectual property provide massive positive trade balances. Innovation, and the intellectual property that it creates, provide the lifeblood for the world’s centers of creativity. Regulating trade in manufactured goods... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

projects are not up to investment standards. How can the tools of finance be applied to more and better build power, water, waste, and transit efficiency projects? This matters a lot, regardless of whether you are worried about carbon or not. The View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

26 May 2016
News

Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations, moving from bicycle parts to wool blankets to stainless View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

revisit the idea of investing in cleantech." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811009-PDF-ENG Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel Karthik Ramanna and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

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