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John D. Ryan
Ryan’s negotiation skills helped put an end to bitter competition among Montana copper moguls in the early 1900s. When he assumed control of Anaconda, he capitalized on the increasing importance of copper in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Louis S. Cates
Through acquisitions, such as the Nichols Copper Company, the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the United Verde Copper Company, Cates expanded Phelps-Dodge into an integrated operation in the View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
C. Donald Dallas
Dallas grew Revere Copper & Brass, a merger of six brass and copper companies, into a $100 million annual business. Dallas, keen on communication, wrote a monthly letter, which was sent to the homes of... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Daniel Guggenheim
and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- Portrait Project
Valentina Zarya
ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun”... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
MaterialsChile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A) Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini, and Renee KimHarvard Business School Case 710-019 In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
business and environmentalists to collaborate to develop sustainable enterprises. He described, for example, how Nature Conservancy scientists are working with Rio Tinto, a global mining behemoth, to craft an environmentally sensitive design for the world’s biggest... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS
and American students themselves have often lived in two or three different countries. It’s been particularly rewarding to be able to discuss topics from Chilean copper to nightlife in Tokyo with both Chilean and Japanese people but also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our product to make sure your routers or... View Details
- Profile
Kira Epler
the community he had lived in and how it was affected by a copper mine nearby. After hearing his story, I could see the broader impact of a company's decisions, the larger consequences for communities." Giving back Kira has taken an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
opted for the walking tour began by visiting an Arab fort and then the Sultan’s Palace — the first building to have electricity in Zanzibar — where we saw exhibits of copper and ivory artifacts, hippo tusks, wooden masks, and weavings. As... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
only the eleventh regular season perfect game in the majors since 1900. "We have about one-fifth market penetration," notes Winslow. With about one thousand alumni in the Dallas area, new members are enticed to join with events such as a brew pub tour at the View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house three times the size of its previous system. (Courtesy Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits) Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
enhance one's BATNA. Sebenius cites the example of Kennecott Copper Corporation, which a number of years ago was faced with what the company felt might be an eventual government takeover of its mines in Chile. Simply continuing a narrow,... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- Web
Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Company, 1899-1938). Note: issue from 1909 online with Google Copper Curb and Mining Outlook; the Truth Regarding Mining and Investments Throughout the World (New York: O.F. Jonassen & Co. [etc.], 1907-1917). Full text (1911-1917)... View Details
- 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
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
well-known multinational mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, one of the largest recently discovered such deposits in the world. The business environment has become more... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Shibayama founded AG Holdings, a consultancy with a special focus on art and culture programs. Art was the last thing on Shibayama’s mind 35 years ago, when he started working at Mitsubishi Corp., one of Japan’s giant trading companies, as a View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman