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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Sweifet-Roleff Studio. Chemical control laboratory, Oliver Iron Mining Company, Duluth, Minnesota. Producing flat stitching wire, Newburgh Wire Works, Cleveland, Ohio. Russell Aikins. “Venting” zinc furnace condenser, Zinc Works, Donora,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target customers, Slayton and his team were quick to adapt. Sensing a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
an abrupt halt: Ellen will not be involved in anything that even remotely suggests cruelty to animals. Similarly, a friend of mine who's an Oscar-nominated cinematographer will not even consider working on films that show children getting... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging from orbital refueling to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 2013
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850
By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
- 10 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Midwest
many struggle to access basic resources. It's a reminder to approach my leadership with humility and to be a voice for people from communities like mine throughout my career. I bring this perspective to my healthcare experiences by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
pioneers have moved out there, claimed the loot, and put a stake in the ground, then they want property rights," Spar observed. "They don't want to be sitting out there with shotguns; they want to be running their business or mining their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
statistical norm of two children. Her in-laws were appalled when she went back to work when her youngest started school; no one blinked when I went back to work after an eight-week leave. Her career options were nurse, teacher, librarian (her choice); View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust electronic networks. For... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially improve valuations over time.... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
mining industries: Decarbonizing the supply chain By Shirley Lu and Robert S. Kaplan Monsters in the machine? Tackling the challenge of responsible AI By Paul M. Healy and Debora L. Spar 'Care in every drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
companies that depend on migrant workers such as the mining industry must consider the social dynamic created by men working away from their families many months out of the year. The sex trade in which those men participate has been... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi, and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 610-021 In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural nitrates. Chile's economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Caterpillar, Inc. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Caterpillar, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-088, February 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t get any call-backs. It was Ng’s... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Target's general merchandise stores outweigh the associated challenges? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510016-PDF-ENG Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace