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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
subject is a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged by a seventeen-year civil war that claimed 700,000 lives and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
like aluminum cans or glass bottles were not found in the Mumbai waste stream since a clear value-chain already exists for those materials and the Indian people have found ways to reuse or resell items in a decentralized way. Further... 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
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
advancements in canning and processing helping the brand make its mark. In 1951, for instance, Francesco's great-uncle Ugo Mutti developed thimble tube packaging—essentially a coated aluminum toothpaste tube with a twist-off cap—to keep... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Ronald (“Bobby”) Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper’s magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight years that Bobby has lived in Payatas, three of... View Details
- 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
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2019. 52 McLaine in Henderer, A Comparative Study of the Public Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United State Steel Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, The Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
with case studies on projects in Venezuela, Kuwait, China, and Thailand, among others. For example, Esty and research associate Fuaad A. Qureshi coauthored a case on a $1.4- billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
resident Ronald ("Bobby") Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper's magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight years that Bobby has lived in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and aluminum... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
have the market we desire.” Days 6–9: Monterrey TOM, REAL TIME: Students quiz executives at Nemak, a leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads and blocks. Nemak is one of four business groups that make up ALFA, a $10 billion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
backcountry. Usually I’m weighed down with gear: sturdy (but heavy) hiking boots, a pack with an aluminum frame, clothing to layer as needed, and a Windbreaker. On backpacking trips I’ve toted 40 pounds. But on this day all my gear,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-029 Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A) In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
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 smelter in Mozambique,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm in December 2008. In 21 years,... View Details
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Art Nature Business
history of modernism and his interest in ecological minimalism. AARON SISKIND Martha's Vineyard 107 B , 1954 Gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1984.133 © 2020 Estate of Aaron Siskind The son of... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin II... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace