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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Saving the Steel Industry

Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) played a key role in helping to save the U.S. steel industry in the 1990s, writes the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 4, 2007). Bloom spent five years at Lazard Freres before starting a firm that advised unions about... View Details
Keywords: Primary Metal Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

United States Steel Corp. and the Steel Valley Authority (B)

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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • July 2002
  • Teaching Note

Anderson Steel Service, Inc., TN

By: John A. Davis
Teaching Note for (9-899-011). View Details
Keywords: Steel Industry
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  • May 1974 (Revised February 1977)
  • Case

Armco Steel Corp. (A) (Revised)

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Steel Industry
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  • 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
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  • March 1988
  • Case

Inland Steel Industries, Inc.

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  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

more citizens are achieving personal wealth, and the middle class is growing. On our trip to India, we had the opportunity to meet with a variety of companies that are part of the clean build: from incumbent power and steel producers that... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • Video

Public Image: The U.S. Steel Photography Exhibit at Baker Library

  • April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

United States Steel Corp. and the Steel Valley Authority (A)

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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Baker’s Man of Steel

A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just... View Details
Keywords: Baker Library; Bobby Delaney; crane; operator; Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • 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
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  • January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.

By: David A. Garvin
Keywords: Steel Industry
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  • October 1968
  • Supplement

Armco Steel Corp. (B)

By: Wickham C. Skinner and Matthew P. Simmons
Keywords: Steel Industry
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  • December 1974 (Revised July 1977)
  • Case

Great Western Steel Corp.

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  • March 1983
  • Case

United States Steel Industry in 1983

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Steel Industry; United States
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  • March 1983
  • Case

European-United States Steel Dispute of 1982

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Trade; International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Steel Industry; Europe; United States
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  • 27 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

across the country. Summary of Field Immersion in India JSW Steel team at the JSW Steel Dolvi plant This winter break, we and a group of 40 students traveled to India as part of an Immersive Field Course... View Details
  • December 1995 (Revised October 1996)
  • Case

Maureen Frye at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation

By: John J. Gabarro
Maureen Frye, assistant product manager at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp., is asked to implement an action plan for changing the call pattern of the salesforce. Currently the salesforce is spending too much time on small accounts. Earlier Frye attempted to change their... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Planning; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Steel Industry
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