Steel and Mining - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

School Case 811-031 Henry Phipps, Jr. made his fortune in the steel industry alongside one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs—Andrew Carnegie. His wealth was administered in the form of trusts, which he hoped would provide a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Joy Morton

Morton founded the Morton Salt Company, which became the most important firm in the salt industry under his leadership. By 1927, the company produced upwards of 600,000 tons of evaporated salt per annum and also distributed 400,000 tons... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

strong and as he watched the video of George Floyd’s murder, he was aware that racism is part of that bond: “every male in my nuclear family — my dad, my four brothers, and me — has felt the cold View Details

November 1994
Teaching Note

The All American Pipeline (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for (9-292-040). View Details

Keywords: Mining Industry; California; Texas

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2010
Thesis

Out of Norway falls aluminium: the Norwegian aluminium industry in the international economy, 1908-1940

Keywords: History; Metals and Minerals; Mining Industry; Norway

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28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

sustainability research and engagement, Steve Waygood. The case describes Aviva Investors' policies on materiality, engagement, and its corporate responsibility voting policy. It then explores how the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2005
News

Ideas: Books

examines August Thyssen and the management of his Thyssen & Co., Thyssen-Konzern, and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) from 1871 to 1936. He disproves the idea that... View Details

Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

positive attitude towards gay people – even our extended family in Moscow supports anti-LGBT measures. Immigrant families like mine typically need to conform and adapt to survive in a new society, so I... View Details

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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin View Details

Portrait Project

Randolph Rodrigues

professors here have stirred up. Along the way, I want to turn a stagnant fruit-processing company into a vibrant spring of innovative juices — transform a dormant granite and marble mine into a... View Details

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

August 1978
Case

Alcan Aluminium Ltd. (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

Keywords: Mining Industry

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September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Supplement

Enman Oil, Inc. (E)

By: David F. Hawkins

Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details

Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States

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September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Supplement

Enman Oil, Inc. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details

Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2012
News

FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014

TATA IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: Members of the HBS community gathered on September 24 for a "topping off" ceremony to celebrate placement of the final steel beam in Tata Hall's ongoing construction. In his remarks, Dean Nitin Nohria recognized the... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Construction of Buildings; Construction

Portrait Project

Viroopa Volla

Two babies were born in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant government hospital at 11:38 p.m. one Monday in 1991. The father in the other room left as soon as he saw that it was a girl. My father stayed and... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Books

offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation