Publications

May 1995
Teaching Note

Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1987 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Steel Industry

August 1977 (Revised June 1987)
Teaching Note

Lowell Steel Corp., Teaching Note

By: Paul W. Marshall and Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Steel Industry

December 1984 (Revised July 1985)
Teaching Note

Nippon Steel Corp., Teaching Note

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Steel Industry

January 1985 (Revised August 1986)
Case

Chaparral Steel (B)--1979

By: Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Steel Industry

January 1985 (Revised August 1986)
Case

Chaparral Steel (A)--1977

By: Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Steel Industry

May 1969
Case

Seneca Steel Corp.

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Steel Industry

July 1989
Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (S): Organization of Inland Steel Co.--1989

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry

February 2020
Case

Klöckner & Co: Steeling for a Digital World

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Hoping to get ahead of potential digital disruption at Klöckner & Co.—one of the world’s largest steel and metal distributors—CEO Gisbert Rühl set up both kloeckner.i (KCI), an internal transformation arm, and XOM Materials (XOM), an independent industry platform. KCI... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Markets; Industry Structures; Supply and Industry; Technology Adoption; Transformation; Digital Transformation; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Germany

November 1997 (Revised April 2017)
Teaching Note

Purity Steel Corporation, 2012

By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila

Teaching Note for (9-197-082). View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; ROI; Transfer Pricing; Steel Industry

October 2013 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Ilva Steel Taranto: Providing and Polluting (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Vincent Dessain, Ottavia Pesce and Karol Misztal

Nearly 27,000 people depended on Ilva Steel Taranto, the largest steel-making plant in Europe, for their livelihoods, but the plant's pollution fouled the environment and increased the incidence of tumors, respiratory illnesses, and deaths. In July 2012, faced with a... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Pollutants; Business Exit or Shutdown; Health; Decision Making; Steel Industry; Europe

September 2001 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Stevenson Industries (A)

By: John A. Davis and Kacie LaChapelle

Simon Carlson, chairman of the board of his family's fourth-generation industrial company, must decide how to deal with his conflict with the company's nonfamily CEO. Hired by the board just 15 months earlier to pursue growth more aggressively, CEO Paul Steel has upset... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Management Succession; Management Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Manufacturing Industry

April 1995
Teaching Note

Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1984 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Steel Industry

March 1995
Teaching Note

Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1972 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Steel Industry

July 2002
Teaching Note

Anderson Steel Service, Inc., TN

By: John A. Davis

Teaching Note for (9-899-011). View Details

Keywords: Steel Industry

May 1974 (Revised February 1977)
Case

Armco Steel Corp. (A) (Revised)

By: Robert H. Hayes

Keywords: Steel Industry

February 1980 (Revised June 1984)
Case

Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp.

By: John J. Gabarro

Lower middle-level manager is faced with the need to bring about a change in the call patterns of the sales force selling her product. Based on an earlier case by P.R. Lawrence. View Details

Keywords: Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Salesforce Management; Steel Industry