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  • June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Background Note

An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Demand for Strategists By: Quan Le , Quan Le and Quan Le July 2025 | Module Note | Faculty Research This module note introduces students to the foundational microeconomic principles of supply and demand. It uses the example of an aluminum... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

the district heating system. Over the next few years, even more households will be connected to the district heating system as a result of country’s efforts to move away from natural gas. A view of Amager Bakke waste incinerator's unique checkered View Details
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

rising importance of selling within corporations was the fact that something like one-quarter of the chief executives of the top 200 industrial firms in 1917 had spent part, or all, of their career in selling. Arthur Vining Davis, who had figured out a way to sell... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

exposure, lighting, background, and composition. Walter Dorwin Teague, who also designed Polaroid's glare-free desk lamps, created a camera body made of die-cast aluminum with a satin-brushed chromium finish. The Model 95 weighed four... View Details

    Arthur V. Davis

    Davis was at Alcoa when Charles Hall invented the process for producing commercial aluminum. While Davis was head of Alcoa, the company continued to discover new uses for aluminum, most notably in the field of aviation. Davis manufactured and sold View Details
    Keywords: Metals

      Richard S. Reynolds

      Believing that aluminum was the metal of the future, R. S. Reynolds devoted his metal company’s efforts to its production, despite slow growth of the product in the 1910s. However, because of Reynolds’ foresight, the company flourished... View Details
      Keywords: Metals

        Paul H. O'Neill

        Not only did O'Neill lead Alcoa to become the world's largest aluminum conglomerate, he gave the company a solid image of integrity, emphasizing life-long learning by all employees, and making occupational safety and environmental... View Details
        Keywords: Metals

          Henry J. Kaiser

          the first integrated steel mill on the West Coast and a major aluminum company. His most enduring achievements were the employee health plan and 19 hospitals he established, which were the first health maintenance organizations in the... View Details
          Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

            Dr. Manu Chandaria

            Keywords: Steel and Aluminum

              Frederick L. Maytag

              As the founder of the Maytag Company, Maytag was renowned for his financial reliability and technical innovation. The company introduced several models of washing machines with great success, including the Gyrofoam model which combined an View Details
              Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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              Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About

              Holzer printed the statements on electronic signs and aluminum plaques; later she had the texts etched into stone benches. Holzer has had exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the Guggenheim Museums in... View Details
              • 10 Oct 2007
              • Research & Ideas

              “Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients

              with the first test flight not even scheduled until May 2008. In addition to being built from composite materials rather than aluminum and, therefore, more fuel efficient, the plane's design includes many in-cabin innovations—including... View Details
              Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
              • 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
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              Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

              Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United State Steel Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, The Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Koppers Company, Dravo Corporation . (Pittsburgh: University of... View Details
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              Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

              and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Henderer, Frederic Rhodes. A Comparative Study of the Public Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United States Steel Corporation, View Details
              • 01 Oct 1999
              • News

              Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell

              In the light and airy fourth-grade classroom at the Bowman public school in Lexington, Massachusetts, the desks are clustered back-to-back in groups of five, forming a series of islands. In one corner, a large spider web made of aluminum... View Details
              Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
              • 13 Jun 2005
              • Research & Ideas

              Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

              next-generation robot, a little humanoid named QRIO. Mac Mini. Moments after Apple unveiled its $499 Mac Mini in January 2005, the Internet was buzzing with speculation about just what the new computer was for. Sold without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard, the Mini was a... View Details
              Keywords: by Youngme Moon
              • 01 Oct 2000
              • News

              Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

              focuses on six worldwide corporate brands, including Nestlé, Nescafé, Nestea, Buitoni, Maggi, and Friskies, which are complemented by regional brands such as Stouffer's and Crosse & Blackwell. After graduating from HBS, Corti took a job as a corporate planner at Kaiser... View Details
              Keywords: Garry Emmons
              • 01 Dec 2003
              • News

              Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

              “Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer announced that it would no longer... View Details
              Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing