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    Melvin H. Baker

    construction materials. Baker shepherded the company through the down years of the thirties and helped to position it for the construction boom that followed in the forties and fifties. Throughout his long... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • September 2007 (Revised September 2008)
    • Case

    Buildings and Energy

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Nazli Uludere
    Presents data on opportunities to conserve energy in buildings, which account for about a third of all energy use. Encourages readers to think about the impediments to energy efficiency in the buildings sector and the ways in which entrepreneurs can profitably surmount... View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Energy Conservation; Construction; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Performance Efficiency; Environmental Sustainability; Construction Industry
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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 efforts of the many View Details
    Keywords: FIELD program; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings
    • 01 Dec 2006
    • News

    Green as Gold

    At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction; Construction
    • November 1988
    • Case

    Honeywell Residential Division: New Product Development

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    Describes three different product development efforts at the Residential Controls division of Honeywell, Inc. Each of the three projects was for a different market and competitive environment. Each was tackled in a somewhat different way within the Honeywell... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Construction; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Business Divisions; Product Design; Change Management; Construction Industry
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      Clarence H. Shaver

      Shaver led United States Gypsum through periods of prosperity and downturns in the construction business. Despite the downturns in the economy, USG consistently paid handsome dividends, and under Shaver’s leadership, USG’s revenues and... View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
      • 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 of Buildings

        Henry J. Kaiser

        Kaiser successfully built a highly diversified construction business consisting of 82 companies. His company handled millions of dollars of highway and bridge construction as well as several dams (e.g.... View Details
        Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
        • Profile

        Jan Petzel

        After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the... View Details
        Keywords: Other Financial Services

          Archie A. Alexander

          Alexander was one of the first and most successful black engineers to enter the large-scale industrial construction business. Through his leadership, his firm built over 300 major construction projects in... View Details
          Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

            Herman Brown

            Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real estate concerns, office... View Details
            Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
            • November 2018
            • Case

            Komatsu Komtrax: Asset Tracking Meets Demand Forecasting

            By: Willy Shih, Paul Hong and YoungWon Park
            Komatsu's Komtrax system started as a way of remotely monitoring and tracking equipment for the purpose of improving operational efficiency. This case follows its evolution towards other uses including demand forecasting for its sales, marketing, and production... View Details
            Keywords: Big Data; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Data Strategy; Internet Of Things; Construction; Production; Analytics and Data Science; Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Japan
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            • May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
            • Supplement

            Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model

            By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
            The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details
            Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Growth Management; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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              George A. Schaefer

              A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for urban View Details
              Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

                Edward DeBartolo

                In 1950, DeBartolo built Boardman Plaza in Youngstown, Ohio, considered one of the first suburban malls in the United States. The success of this mall sparked a major investment and development campaign which led to the construction of... View Details
                Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

                  Herbert A. Sklenar

                  Sklenar’s knowledge of fiscal matters helped the company survive a slow down in the construction business and a rapidly changing chemicals marketplace. To cope with the change, Sklenar invested in research and development of new products,... View Details
                  Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
                  • 01 Dec 2009
                  • News

                  Up on the Green Roof

                  for LEED status — the Class of 1959 Chapel and McCulloch. The School’s goal is to achieve LEED Gold Certification for all new construction and major renovations, says O’Brien. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Workers spread 64 cubic yards of growing... View Details
                  Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings
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                  The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

                  The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
                  • January 2017
                  • Teaching Note

                  SOHO China: Transformation in Progress

                  By: Charles F. Wu and Alexander W. Schultz
                  In 2016 against the backdrop of a challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of their new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded... View Details
                  Keywords: Merchant Builder; Real Estate Development; Public Markets; China; Shared Office Space; Growth and Development Strategy; Property; Construction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Marketing Strategy; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; China
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                  • 01 Dec 2012
                  • News

                  Crowning Achievement

                  BAZEY: An advocate for burn victims. One day in 1994, Sarah Bazey (OPM 32, 2003), the owner, president, and CEO of Minnesota-based Simplex Construction Supplies, chartered a helicopter for an aerial view of one of her company's projects.... View Details
                  Keywords: Beauty pageants; Construction; Construction