Publications

November 2013
Supplement

Ilva Steel Taranto: Providing and Polluting (C)

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

January 2025
Case

U.S. Steel: Proposed Acquisition by Nippon Steel

By: Willy C. Shih

The case setting is the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, which elicited a great deal of controversy. The real purpose of the case is to look at the history of the American steel industry since World War II and understand how the steel minimill... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business History; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Steel Industry; Steel Industry; United States

August 2024
Case

Aluminum Smelting in Algeria: The AluAlgeria Project

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Johnson Elugbadebo and Jordan Mitchell

September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real

By: Daniel C. Snow, Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir

Columbus Tubing must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Production; Research and Development; Information Technology; Bicycle Transportation; Asia; Italy

April 1991 (Revised October 1991)
Background Note

Note on the Aluminum Industry in 1983

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Metals and Minerals

June 1981
Teaching Note

Steel Industry and Imports (A)--1977, Teaching Note

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Steel Industry

October 1968
Supplement

Armco Steel Corp. (C)

By: Wickham C. Skinner and Matthew R. Simmons

Keywords: Steel Industry

July 1981
Teaching Note

Steel Industry and Imports (C)--1978, Teaching Note

By: J. Ronald Fox

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

September 2010 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel

By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani

The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Steel Industry; India

April 2012
Teaching Note

International Steel Group (TN)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Jim Sharpe

August 1977 (Revised June 1987)
Teaching Note

Lowell Steel Corp., Teaching Note

By: Paul W. Marshall and Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Steel Industry

June 1988 (Revised February 1989)
Case

Amalgamated Aluminum Pigments Division: The Technical Service Conundrum

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Manufacturing Industry

March 1997 (Revised November 2013)
Case

Purity Steel Corporation, 2012

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila

Managers introduce a new performance evaluation system based on sales growth and return-on-investment (ROI). A branch manager wonders whether his new warehouse should be leased to mitigate the impact on ROI. Formulas and performance calculations are provided. A... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Judgments; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Efficiency; Compensation and Benefits; Salesforce Management; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity; Steel Industry